Learning is a vital issue for small business starters, contributing to short term and long term business performance …, learning opportunities and learning behaviours are related to three outcome measures: a performance outcome (goal achievement … situations that offer learning opportunities, as well as the learning behaviours that small business starters can employ in order …

This paper examines the robustness of the results found by Douglas and Popova (2008). They examine the electricity … forward premium in relation to gas storage inventories and find that, although electricity is not directly storable …, electricity forward premiums are lower when gas storage inventories are higher, especially on days with high temperatures. Douglas …

conceptualization of market and other spheres in society. If, for instance, one perceives of the economy (the economic domain) as an all … are presumed to be ubiquitous in mainstream economics; the orthodox view is that of the ‘market as separate’. Indeed … conceptions of the market are functionalist – in the appropriate conditions the market is an efficiency conduit, and hence …

innovation is more beneficial to a unit’s financial performance in more competitive environments. Through this richer …

extent to which a firm's investment behavior and financial performance is influenced by its ownership structure. To do so, we … stakes of a particular category of investor and a firm's financial performance and investment behavior is highly …

The relationship between Human Resource Management (HRM) and firm performance has been a hotly debated topic over the …

-attribute dispatching rules prove to be better in general. In this study, we introduce new dispatching rules and evaluate their performance … compared to several good dispatching rules in literature, using the experimental design of a real case study. The performance … better utilize vehicles. The experiments show that newly introduced hybrid dispatching rule yields the best performance …

We examine the effect of relational constructs, such as satisfaction, trust and commitment on relationship performance … performance. Our empirical results provide strong evidence of duration dependent effects of satisfaction and trust, but we find … only weak evidence of such effects on performance. …

The relationship between Human Resource Management (HRM) and performance of the firm has been a hot debated topic in … performance is in a Dutch setting mitigated by institutions and stakeholders inside and outside the organization. …