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The paper’s purpose is to add to the body of knowledge on strategy implementation by systematically studying the … activities for and obstacles to strategy execution on a sample of 172 Slovenian companies. The results show that managers mostly … rely on planning and organising activities when implementing strategies, while the biggest obstacle to strategy execution …
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The main objective of the article is to analyse the current state of the innovation activity among the Russian enterprises. The empirical evidence shows only 13% of the sample indicated that innovation is the first priority for the firm. We propose that the Russian Government designs innovation...
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offers companies the possibility of tailoring a carbon management strategy that is the most cost-effective, i.e. reducing …
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This paper examines whether the chairmen of the boards (COBs) impose their life cycles on the firms over which they preside. Using a large sample of unlisted firms, we find a robust negative relation between COB age and firm performance. COBs age much like ‘ordinary’ people. Their cognitive...
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applies the Resource-Based View (RBV) and Transaction Cost Economics (TCE) to the outsourcing of sports sponsorship activities … actually deviate from these recommended outsourcing levels, and discuss ways to counteract these deviations. This is the first … paper to apply classical theoretical concepts to outsourcing sports sponsorship activities. As a conceptual paper, it hopes …
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Over the past two decades multinational firms from high-technology industries have increasingly relied on outsourcing … firm (RBV) and develop hypotheses claiming that outsourcing of production will not result in the outsourcing of … of the sample firms has not been affected by the ongoing outsourcing activities. The empirical observation gives rise to …
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, which affects the behaviour of agents inside the corporation. This way, trade integration leads to waves of outsourcing and …
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contingencies determine the appropriate, i.e. revenues-optimizing, brand management strategy of an athlete at any career stage …
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This paper uses panel regression techniques to assess the policy determinants of private sector innovative activity – proxied by R&D expenditure and the number of new patents – across 19 OECD countries. The relationship between innovation indicators and multifactor productivity (MFP) growth...
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