Background: The ongoing technical innovation is fully involving transportation sector, converting the usual mass-transit system toward a sustainable mobility. Make-or-buy decision are usually adopted to assess different solutions in terms of costs-benefits to put in place strategic choices...

I estimate a structural model of teams, autonomy, and financial performance, using a cross section of British establishments. My findings suggest that team production improves financial performance for the typical establishment but that autonomous teams do no better than closely supervised or...

While the success of any new business is dependent on a number of factors—the specific business model, technological advantages, the skills and talents of the management team, and competitive and other environmental factors—it is now well understood and accepted that companies often rise or...

Even though the evidence is strong that the likelihood of success for a new business increase when the members of the management team embrace some sort of formal planning process from the outset, it is still tempting for entrepreneurs to charge bravely into the fray in pursuit of their dreams of...

One of the reasons businesses fail is that they are not adequately planned or conceived. As an entrepreneur, finance, and business management professor, I have been approached severally by startuppers to multinationals on various management and consulting projects. One thing stands out like the...