This study empirically examines the social capital that facilitates the flow of export knowledge, thereby supporting the entrepreneurial stance of small export firms. By applying the VRIO (value, rarity, inimitability and organisation of firm resources) framework to the resource-based view (RBV)...

Risks associated with the dissipation of intellectual property rights of foreign firms transferring technology to China have received some attention in the academic and professional, trade-based literature. An innovative Australian manufacturer and designer of large, high-speed catamaran ferries...

In this dissertation, I considered how firm resources, actions and performance may be interrelated. I tested the notion that resources both enable and interact with firm actions to impact performance. Drawing from resource-based and actions-based theory and empirical research, testable...

The aim of this thesis is to examine the way in which civil airlines exploit theirresources in order to gain and sustain competitive advantage. This is done within theframework of the resource-basedv iew, rather than using the market basedv iew, thoughtwithout of cause presuming to test that...

Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) play an essential part in the development of national economy. It also considered as the main source of employment, poverty reduction, improvement in lifestyle and empowerment of low-income groups. In Indonesia SME also has important role, SME acts as the...

The objective of the current study was to provide an initial empirical test of theSchneider, Smith, and Sipe (2000) multilevel model of personnel selection. TheSchneider et al. (2000) model expanded the traditional approach to validating selectionsystems to include the impact that selection...

Was verbirgt sich hinter dem Begriff des Campus Recruiting? Welche Methoden undInstrumente empfiehlt die Wissenschaft und welche werden in der unternehmerischenPraxis genutzt? Welche Rolle spielt in diesem Rahmen das Arbeitgeberimage?Wie lässt sich das Bild eines Unternehmens als Arbeitgeber...

Das situative Interview (SI) ist eine Form des strukturierten Interviews. Es wird nach der Zielsetzungstheorie von der Annahme ausgegangen, dass ein enger Zusammenhang zwischen geäußerten Verhaltensabsichten und dem späteren realen Verhalten besteht. Bewerber werden gefragt, wie sie in...

Over the past two decades, the resource-based view of the firm (RBV) has emerged as one of the more influential paradigms from the field of strategic management. However, the theory has been subjected to a number of criticisms, particularly related to the use of methodologies in past research....