In the capability approach to poverty, wellbeing is threatened by both deficits of wealth and deficits of agency. Sen describes that “unfreedom,” or low levels of agency, will suppress the wellbeing effects of higher levels of wealth. We introduce another condition, “frustrated freedom,”...

La producción de café en Guatemala se ha transformado dramáticamente en los últimos veinte años. El gusto ha cambiado entre los consumidores del Norte lo cual ha llevado a una nueva demanda en cafés de alta calidad denominada "Estrictamente Dura" que se cultivan a mas de 4500 pies de...

The purpose of this paper is to build theory on peak performance at the group level. Peak performance transcends ordinary performance and is associated with a subjective experience in which one loses a sense of time and space as well as feels great joy and bliss. We chose to study this...

Research shows that innovations contribute to a firm's performance such as market value. However, research is less specific concerning how innovations contribute to market value. Simplistic assumptions are often made such as additivity, which assumes that the bundle of innovations can be...

Despite recognition of the importance of facilitative environments to promote new ventures and the corresponding efforts of many governments to provide the necessary infrastructure to fuel growth in entrepreneurship, our understanding of the relationship between the new venture and the state is...

Using institutional theory to interpret the role of management accounting in organizational change, the paper reports on a longitudinal empirical study of the implementation of an Activity-Based Costing (ABC) system in the Clearing Department of a UK-based multinational bank. Since the ABC...

Pro-active supply chain practices in manufacturing have been affected by general features of institutionalized reflexivity whereby production activities are disembedded by firms whose actions have been enabled by abstract systems such as accounting and quality management. A new consciousness of...

This paper examines the role that the management of green knowledge and the use of environmental intellectual capital play in the implementation process of green supply chain management (GSCM) practices in Greek manufacturing companies. Greece is one of the economies with low perceptions of...

In light of the growing complexity of globally dispersed, multi-tier supply chains; sustainable supply chain management (SSCM) has become instrumental in the quest for achieving sustainability compliance along the supply chain. This study investigates how sustainability capability develops...

This study examines how characteristics of university departments impact students' self-employment intentions. We argue that four organizational-level factors (entrepreneurship education, entrepreneurship support programs, industry ties, and research orientation) increase such intentions. Using...