Objectives: The paper presents the results of an ecological-economic approach to identifying community-level factors that influence the physical growth of young children.Design: A cross-sectional design was used to obtain both theanthropometry and the ecological-economic data.Setting: The sites...

Business ventures are started by individuals and teams with very different backgrounds and motivations, pursuing business ideas of very variable inherent quality in environments that also show tremendous variability. As a result it is difficult to arrive at broadly valid generalizations, and...

Literature addressing methodological issues in organisational research is extensive and multidisciplinary, encompassing debates about methodological choices, data-collection techniques, epistemological approaches and statistical procedures. However, little scholarship has tackled an important...

Longitudinal panel studies of large, random samples of business start-ups captured at the pre-operational stage allow researchers to address core issues for entrepreneurship research, namely, the processes of creation of new business ventures as well as their antecedents and outcomes. Here, we...

I here have been very few studies carried out on enhancing CFC (Cross-functionalCollaboration) for the product design development. nevertheless there is a clearconsensus among researchers that this issue is a critical one in ne product designdevelopment. Besides, almost all of the research work,...

The purpose of this paper is to compare and evaluate the main research methods and methodologiesfor studying organisational learning (OL), and propose a framework for their selection. It presents acomprehensive review of literature on OL, learning organisation (LO) and research methods...

Abstract: Purpose – Submitted in the form of a manifesto, this article seeks to make a call to scholars in international management and business studies to embrace post-colonial theory and to allow it to provide an interrogation of the ontological, epistemological, methodological and...

Firms and industries around the world are under increasing pressure to articulate their responses to climate change. Multi-disciplinary work spanning policy, science, anthropology, and management literature has contributed on many levels. All of these approaches make a valuable contribution and...

This paper reports upon progress towards a doctoral study on the antecedents of project success in aid/emergency relief projects. We argue that there are useful project management (PM) approaches that may be universally applied to most, if not all, projects to contribute to successful PM...

This journal aims at developing and sharing some ideas on methodological development in entrepreneurship research, based on the author?s experience from two decades of empirical work in this area. As there is no shortage of ideas in the literature as regards what "entrepreneurship" is, and what...