What determines the value an MNC's headquarters adds to its own affiliates? In this paper, we shed light on this question by linking the embeddedness view of the multinational corporation to the literature on parenting advantage. We test our hypotheses on an original dataset of 124 manufacturing...

This paper aimed to evaluate the product innovation as a resource in the internationalization process of an emerging multinational (EMN), the Brazilian company Taurus in the North American market. Through the lenses of the Resource Based View (RBV), we discuss the role of product innovation, the...

Within a practice-based approach of organizations, we explore the knowing integration phenomena at the roots of competitive advantage. While former knowing integration studies have pointed to the importance of boundary objects across occupational communities, knowing integration inside a...

Tax risk has the potential to have far-reaching economic consequences, including the effect on late audit reports. This study aims to empirically investigate the effect of tax risk on audit report lag. This study took a quantitative approach. Companies listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange...

Total Quality Management denotes a path by which – both in a stable and a transitional environment, in a professional and scientific way and by applying a variety of methods and techniques, through constant improvements and involvement of all employees – one could get to a model that enables...

Despite the importance and popularity of the stewardship concept in the current management literature, antecedents and the role of the surrounding framework of stewardship remains poorly understood. Similarly, relatively little is known about the outcomes of stewardship. In this study I set out...

Despite the importance and popularity of the stewardship concept in the current management literature, antecedents and the role of the surrounding framework of stewardship remains poorly understood. Similarly, relatively little is known about the outcomes of stewardship. In this study I set out...

In recent years, the segment of the world's poor has moved into the focus of business and academia. This trend was accelerated by stagnation tendencies in the industrialized world together with comparatively high growth rates in developing countries. Under the headline Base of the Pyramid,...

Consumers' budgets are influenced by the temporal frame used for the budget period. Budgets planned for the next month are much lower than recorded expenses, while those for the next year are closer to recorded expenses (study 1). The difficulty of estimating budgets for the next year imparts...

We find that exposure to different types of categories or assortments in a first task creates a mindset that changes how consumers process information. These mindsets in turn, have a spillover effect that alters consumers' decision making in a variety of subsequent and unrelated tasks, from...