This study explores organizational capability and culture change through a project developing an assurance of learning program in a business school. In order to compete internationally for high quality faculty, students, strategic partnerships and research collaborations it is essential for...

This study explores academic perceptions of organizational capability and culture following a project to develop a quality assurance of learning program in a business school. In the project a community of practice structure was established to include academics in the development of an embedded,...

Risk allocation in privately financed public infrastructure projects, which are mainly referred to as public-private partnership (PPP) projects, is a challenging job due to the nature of incomplete contracting. An investigation into the mechanism that guides the formation of efficient risk...

Risk allocation plays a critical role in privately financed public infrastructure projects. Project performance is contingent on whether the adopted risk allocation strategy can lead to efficient risk management. Founded mainly on the transaction cost economics, a theoretical framework was...

The performance of public-private partnership (PPP) infrastructure projects is largely contingent on whether the adopted risk allocation (RA) strategy is efficient. Theoretical frameworks drawing on the transaction cost economics and the resource-based view of organizational capability are able...

Achieving and sustaining competitive advantage is a major challenge for firms in today’s dynamic global marketplace. The notion of sustained competitive advantage has been investigated through a number of paradigms, from the resource based view of the firm to dynamic capabilities. This paper...

Functional Food emerged as a constant segment in the Europeanfood market and offer potential for product innovations which make themattractive for the food industry in nearly stagnating markets. Target groupresearch is one key factor for successful innovative food products. The aimof this...

Meeting the challenges of an unstable and unsettled environment is not easy. The recentimpacts on the hospitality services economy of changing technology, mergers of institutions,increasingly demanding consumers and increased competition have created an atmosphere ofvolatility and rapid change....

Product innovation has transformed the minds of business people because of its ability to increase productivity. Other than increased productivity it also allows companies to extend the range of the available products to consumers as well as lowering the prices consumers have to pay. Product...

Firms collaborate to develop and deliver new products. These collaborations vary in terms of the similarity of the competencies that partnering firms bring to the alliance. In same-function alliances, partnering firms have similar competencies, whereas in cross-function alliances, partners have...