Project risk management has become an important area of interest in project management practice over the past decade. Numerous best practice standards, tools and techniques have been developed focussing on a more effective risk management process. This process consists of four main phases:...

We find that the decision by a potential acquirer to complete or cancel an announced acquisitionproposal is sensitive to new information generated after the announcement of the acquisition.Both the acquirer and target’s cumulative abnormal returns (CAR) over different windows afterthe...

Post-M&A organisational cultural change is a traumatic experience for organisational members. It generates resistance and contributes to M&A failure. Nevertheless, the literature on managing post-M&A cultural change is scarce and largely focused on overcoming the debilitating impact of...

The literature on mergers and acquisitions (M&A) has accumulated a wide body of knowledge on the role of culture in post-M&A integration. Available research uses varied perspectives on culture and cultural change processes. Some define culture as a force shaping human action, others examine...

In this work we discuss the impact of the new ICT techno-economic paradigm upon thevertical and horizontal boundaries of the firm and ask whether the change in the sources ofcompetitive advantage has resulted in changes in the size distribution of firms and also in thedegree of concentration of...

This paper investigates empirically the strategic alignment between innovation andproduction strategies in a sample of service firms in Spain. It employs the integratedarchetypes approach to analyse a dataset of unique, manually collected, firm responses....

In recent years notions like the ‘learning society’, ‘knowledge economy’, ‘information society’ have populated management and organisation debates, particularly as knowledge and learning are increasingly promoted as the new sources of wealth (Ball, 1991; Drucker, 1993). Moreover, a trend...

Building on the work of Penrose (1959), Richardson (1960; 1972) and others, recent contributions to the theory of the firm have emphasised the importance of endogenously developed capabilities and competences for building sustained competitive advantages (see, for example, Foss and Knudsen, 1996)....

The aim of the present work is to study the evolution of organizational knowledge within Academic Spin-off (ASO) firms throughout their life cycle. The exploitation of tacit and indivisible new knowledge developed in the context of academic institutions entails agency problems of different...

Facing unprecedented challenges and opportunities ahead in the knowledge economy, managing knowledge has been a priority for many organisations. Knowledge Management (KM) emerges and has quickly gained weight in research both from information systems perspective and management sciences. An amply...