This paper considers how ideas from evolutionary theory and the neo-Schumpeterian tradition can be fruitfully combined with ideas from Herbert Simon and the Carnegie tradition on decomposability and cognitive limits. Rather than focusing on any one individual issue, this paper outlines a...

Self-leadership is theoretically assumed to be the key management approach in modern knowledge work because it strengthens the employees’ commitment. This study examines the relationship between self-leadership and affective organizational commitment empirically. An underlying assumption in...

The present article discusses the development of the science of commerce in the 90 - year - long history of University of Economics – Varna, which is the first higher school of economics in Bulgaria and the second higher school after Sofia University. Since th e establishment of the University...

Small-scale business co-operation across borders is considered as major driving force of economic integration between Western and Central Eastern Europe. In this context, it is argued that business co-operation and networks support the creation of competitive advantage. This paper sheds new...

La discusión acerca de la problemática empresarial y particularmente la delestudio de la innovación estratégica está vigente alrededor de la incapacidadde muchas de las aproximaciones tradicionales para abordar de una maneracientífi ca y concreta la comprensión del problema en un contexto...

Innumerables son los beneficios que el uso de las tecnologías de lainformación y las comunicaciones (TIC) deriva en los procesos empresarialessiendo de mayor relevancia el incremento en ventas, la disminución decostos totales, mejora en satisfacción de clientes y proveedores,...

Innovationen werden als wichtige Erfolgsstrategie fuer Unternehmen gesehen. Dabei stellt sich die Frage, ob es auch Aufgabe fuer Betriebsraete sein kann, langfristig die Innovationsstrategie der Unternehmen zu beeinflussen und die Innovationsbereitschaft der Beschaeftigten anzuregen. In diesem...

Over the past two decades multinational firms from high-technology industries have increasingly relied on outsourcing of production to external suppliers. We present a theoretical framework that stems from the resource-based view of the firm (RBV) and develop hypotheses claiming that outsourcing...

SMEs in the manufacturing sector in France have an adequate level of capital and reserves and a relatively small amount of debt. Trade accounts receivable and payable are greater than in German SMMEs and their profitability remained below that of their German counterparts.

This paper describes a number of innovation forms that are of special relevance to firms in the service industry. Not only technological innovations but also organizational innovations have been distinguished. In the service industry organizational innovations seem to play a significant role....