This study examines how five key entrepreneurial orientation (EO) dimensions-risk taking, innovativeness, proactiveness, competitive aggressiveness, and autonomy-affect family business performance, as well as the moderating effect of socioemotional wealth (SEW) on these relationships. The...

This study examines how five key entrepreneurial orientation (EO) dimensions-risk taking, innovativeness, proactiveness, competitive aggressiveness, and autonomy-affect family business performance, as well as the moderating effect of socioemotional wealth (SEW) on these relationships. The...

A centrally initiated but collectively improvised voluntary network of disaggregated actors, professionals and non-professionals spread across the globe, in an example of socialized leadership in the form of Open Source Medical Supplies (OSMS). Drawn globally from universities, governments,...

The arrival of motorization, from before the beginning of the twentieth century, has changed agricultural production and the whole economy by dramatically reducing work force and improving productivity. Yet the negligence of research on the history of farm mechanization is surprising given that...

The simple cork provides a fascinating illustration of an industry that has survived and dominated for over five centuries as the only stopper of choice. This dominance is now however under serious threat from alterative stoppers namely synthetic and aluminium screw caps. This paper analyzes how...

Bootstrapping finance involving the use of resources to start and grow a venture at the lowest possible or even at no cost, acquires especial significance in times of a credit crunch. In this paper we explore, for the first time the use of bootstrap finance techniques in a small country European...