A number of practitioner surveys across a range of industries have cited the lack ofsenior female role models as a barrier to career progression. There is very littleacademic literature to explain this at a senior organizational level. An initial review ofthe extant role model literature led to...

Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to empirically analyse the change in the gender composition of the boards of large Australian companies, after listing. Design/methodology/approach - This study investigates the gender composition of the boards of large Australian companies at the time of...

This paper is based on empirical data obtained from a large scale survey of the Queensland road industry in 2002. The survey focused on innovation activity in the industry and this paper examines a key part of that study – knowledge flows. This focus responds to the rapidly increasing...

The study primarily investigated whether there has been a tangible shift in the activities of the Indian software firms towards higher end of the value chain and factors that helped the firms to make transitions. The objectives were examined by broad examination of thirty nine software firms and...

Magistro baigiamajame darbe nagrinėjama Lietuvos įmonių inovacinė veikla, inovacijų išlaidų dinamika, palyginami inovatyvių įmonių produktyvumo ir darbo našumo duomenys, bei aptariamos inovacijų finansavimo šaltinių tendencijos. Siekiant įvertinti inovacijų diegimo Lietuvose...

Šiame darbe, atlikus mokslinės literatūros analizė, nagrinėjama inovacinės veiklos įtaka įmonės konkurenciniams pranašumams. Remiantis mokslininkų nuomonėmis bei tyrimo rezultatais, parinkti trys esminiai veiksniai, lemiantys įmonės konkurencingumą: produktų, technologijų...

Direct tests between corporate social responsibility (CSR) and firm performance (FP) have been argued to be a futile pursuit. Following this line of thinking, the present study sought to test an alternative model in understanding the CSR-FP relationship. Specifically, reputation and customer...

Strategic management of the firm includes the strategic management of information technology in the context of business relationships. Firms do not exist in isolation. Multiple constituents make up a relationship network that constitutes the vital resources needed to fulfil the mission of a...

The primary mission of strategic management research is to explain variations in the performance of firms. As researchers have sought to explain differentials in firm performance, they have looked to the factors that underlie competitive advantage. For many years, industry structure factors were...

Despite evidence of a positive relationship between informationtechnology (IT) investments and firm performance, results still varyacross firms and performance measures. We explore two organizationalexplanations for this variation: differences in firms’ ITinvestment allocations and their IT...