The purpose of this special issue is to examine small businesses, innovation, and entrepreneurship, and show that, although these three concepts have their own specific literature and can be dealt with independently, they are closely related. From Schumpeter to the present, a stream of...

Various theoretical approaches uphold the relevance of the relationship between the form of management and performance. Different management styles influence the relationships of agencies [Jensen, M.C. (1998). <italic>Foundations of organizational strategy</italic>. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press], the...

The present study analyses the relative efficiency of franchise services and characterises the best companies, confirming the relationship between efficiency and profit. These companies are from 'the trade and other services sector', the main group of service-providing companies in the Spanish...

This study examines the complementary nature of Williamson's transaction cost theory and that of the resource-based view in the integration or externalisation of activities, with particular reference to services. Assessing comparative costs, idiosyncratic demands and core competences form the...

Examining the database of applications to the Regional Government of Valencia's Institute for Small and Medium-sized Industries (Spain) for subsidies to aid technological development in small and medium-sized enterprises, this study seeks to explain the approval or rejection and the success or...

Purpose – This article aims to review varying concepts of entrepreneurship and different contributions to human resource practices, establishing a theoretical framework that allows for the analysis of the firm Montalt-Valencia (Spain), a Ford-Spain car dealer, and leader in its sector....

We consider the problem of cost assessment in the context of switching stochastic regimes. The dynamics of a given asset include a background noise, described by a Brownian motion and a random shock, the impact of which is characterized by changes in the coefficient diffusions. A particular...

The widespread use of loyalty programs in the tourism sector raises questions about their differentiating capacity and more globally on the real advantages they offer firms. We propose, in the hotel sector, a conceptual model on the determinants of loyalty to a hotel or a hotel chain. The...

This article examines the company TUI and its Magic Life hotel chain. The remarkable success of this group in terms of sustainable development led him to develop its own norms and standards. Unfortunately, public policies and private initiatives such as TUI are now hampered by the reluctance of...