Both standardisation and flexibility are naturally linked to franchising and the balance between them has become an important research issue. Literature states that cost minimisation, brand image and innovation are the main reasons that push towards standardisation, while flexibility is claimed...

This study analyzes how Spanish manufacturing firms' technological collaboration with suppliers affects these firms' product innovation. This research also considers innovation novelty (radical versus incremental). Using the 2007–2010 data from the ESEE (Business Strategies Survey), logistic...

In this paper, an analysis of the attitudes of university students towards opera and ballet is made under the framework of audience development strategies for the performing arts. By studying the main motivations, interests, attendance, barriers and expectation, a basis for the development of an...

This paper presents the results of an analysis of the relationship between public sector research and industrial development in the functional foods sector in a peripheral region of the European Union: Andalusia (Spain). Results show that the innovation system and its component parts have made a...

Purpose: The analysis of key business variables and support decisions to facilitate the Information Systems (IS) are essential tools available to organizations to manage their decision making policies. In this sense, this article examines how the implementation of information systems (IS)...

Purpose: Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems are implemented to control the processes developed by the organisation through analysis of the allocation of resources within the firm. Although the benefits of implementing such systems have been determined, research on the relationship to...

Outsourcing is a widely extended practice for many industries competing at the global level. Through outsourcing, firms are able to clearly define their core field of activities while transferring non-core activities to organizations enabled to perform them with higher degrees of efficiency....