In this paper we discuss the impact of customer satisfaction and enthusiasm on the performance of small retailers in the organic food market. The analysis of customer satisfaction and shop data confirm essential economic effects. The study is based on 948 customer interviews and an analysis of...

Previous studies on the internationalization of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) have typically compared the performance of internationalized SMEs (I-SMEs) with that of non-internationalized SMEs. However, not all I-SMEs can successfully lead the international market either unless they...

Help within genetically related and unrelated organisms as well as investments of investors holding shares to different degree including charity can be understood within the ensemble concept. In an ensemble transfer of substrate from a source to a sink may result in superadditivity as well as...

Ostdeutsche Betriebe weisen eine geringere Exportquote als Betriebe in den alten Bundesländern auf. In diesem Artikel werden mögliche Ursachen dafür aufgezeigt. Über eine Analyse auf einzelbetrieblicher Ebene wird herausgearbeitet, welche Faktoren für die Beteiligung der Betriebe am...

Von einem Matthäus-Effekt wird gesprochen, wenn ein Teil des gegenwärtigen Erfolgs auf vergangene Erfolge zurückzuführen ist. Auf die Wissenschaft übertragen, bedeutet dies, dass berühmte Forscher auch deshalb zitiert werden, weil sie berühmt sind. Der vorliegende Beitrag illustriert, wie...

We use a laboratory experiment to examine whether and to what extent other-regarding preferences of team leaders influence their leadership style in choice under risk. We find that leaders who prefer efficiency or report high levels of selfishness are more likely to exercise an autocratic...

This teaching case study tells of the foundation and growth of the Virgin Group over the forty years to 2010. The creation of over 300 business interests in parts as far afield as the UK, South Africa, Australia and the USA resulted from a unique management style. Branson and the Virgin brand...

Apart from starting, growing and/or sustaining a business, owner-managers in small firms have the responsibility to balance business goals and managerial priorities, with ownership control tendencies and family values (as in the case of the prolific family enterprise) in a fashion that can...

The article presents the results of an empirical research into some aspects of links between leadership and mobbing. On the basis of findings in the literature and our own experience, our empirical research - conducted on 184 employees in Slovenian companies - studies the connection between the...

In this article we examine the influence of the leadership style on the resistance to change phenomenon, as well as how the degree of resistance to change differs in private organizations versus public ones. After analyzing the literature and conducting a survey in Romanian organizations we have...