Previous research in new product development (NPD) has focused on the participation of marketing and R...D personnel, but little attention has been paid to their influence. This study examined the effects of marketing's and R...D's influence and participation on new product performance and the...

This article investigates the impact of organizational context on the acquisition of explicit and tacit marketing know-how from foreign partners in an IJV. A structural equation model is developed and tested using survey data from 219 IJVs in Vietnam. The organizational factors investigated...

This paper adopts a qualitative approach to uncover the experiences of founders of international new ventures or born global firms. The data which are based on in-depth interviews, focus on the major characters, events and surrounding conditions from the time the firm is conceived until it...

The positive effects of market orientation (MO) on firm performance are empirically supported much more strongly by studies conducted in developed than in emerging markets. One commonly cited reason for this differential effect is that MO is affected by the cultural, economic and institutional...

The focus of this paper is on the acquisition of tacit and explicit marketing knowledge from foreign partners in international joint ventures. Based on a literature review, a number of antecedents are identified and a model is tested using data obtained from 219 IJVs in Vietnam. Factors related...

The potential for soil carbon sequestration to play a significant role in meeting Australia’s greenhouse reduction targets has attracted widespread interest. Despite this interest, the economic scope for soil carbon sequestration remains poorly understood and the practical approaches that...

Il est generalement admis que la societe americaine est a la fois plus riche et plus inegale que la societe canadienne, et que l'inegalite entre l'une et l'autre s'est accentuee ces dernieres decennies. Il est vrai que l'inegalite des gains a augmente dans les deux pays de 1974 a 1985....

In Spring 2007, an exchange took place on an international online research and reflection network on the Great Transition Initiative, concerning the prospect of including the concept of open borders in its vision of a humane and just global future. The excerpts that follow share elements of that...