This study includes information technology (IT) related industries as the focus and aims to examine the antecedents of retailer loyalty toward brand owners by simultaneously investigating push and pull effects in the channel system. The study interviews 274 independent retailers who sell IT...

This study examines how consumers use the techniques of neutralization to rationalize their multichannel research shopping behaviors in terms of different product purchasing situations and different groups of consumers. Empirical results support the following conclusions. Both students and...

A debris flow is a serious natural disaster which can occur anywhere whether in a valley or on a mountain slope, destroying everything it passes through. Debris flows can occur suddenly and cause residents in the path to suffer casualties and property loss. An early warning system is necessary...

This study investigates the role of dynamic capabilities in the resource-based view framework, and also explores the relationships among different resources, different dynamic capabilities and firm performance. Employing samples of top 1000 Taiwanese companies, the findings show that dynamic...

This commentary essay explores the joint effects of internal context and external search for knowledge on new management practices. Mol and Birkinshaw's (Mol, M.J., Birkinshaw, J., The sources of management: when firms introduce new management practices. Journal of Business Research;...

This study uses a group of informants and applies a step-by-step empirical process to examine the applicability of the resource-based view (RBV) and dynamic-capability view (DCV) to environmental volatility. Through examining 253 Taiwanese firms, this study finds that the explanatory power of...

This study uses resources-base and social capital theories to examine the influences of trust and entrepreneur resources on team member commitments and start-up competitiveness during both the initial and growth stages, and then explores the influences of resources and competitiveness of the...

This study proposes a framework to understand the impacts of both value-related and transaction cost-related factors on repurchase intention from online shoppers' perspective. In particular, this study defines the construct of cost as a three-component conceptualization (i.e., information...

Absorptive capacity is frequently an outcome of a firm’s cumulatively path-dependent R&D investments. However, the query how absorptive capacity transforms R&D investment into firm innovation, in the context of autonomous R&D climate remains unclear. Using 165 firms in the Taiwan’s...