Through a case study of Chinese Family Business Groups (FBGs) in East Asia, this paper examines the relationship between the strategic behaviour exhibited by an organisational form and it's administrative heritage. To do so, we trace the origins of the strategic behaviour which scholars commonly...

Using the upper echelons perspective together with corporate governance and strategic renewal literature, this paper investigates how top managers’ corporate governance orientation influences a firm’s strategic renewal trajectories over time. Through both a qualitative analysis (1907-2004)...

The existence of the business groups has been associated with market failure in emerging economies, and thus their performance has been argued and found to have declined with development of market institutions surrounding them. This paper takes up this issue of long-term performance of the...

In the conditions of constant market changes, fast development and spread of technology, multiply competition and „over night” product superannuation, successful companies became those who create new knowledge, spread it out trough the entire company and implement it rapidly in the new...

A team work is a way of the organization work based on common connection, mutual co-operation and a responsibility of the team members’ work. As benefits of the team work are considered e.g.: bigger amount of improvement - optimalization processes and decreasing cost, more effective solving...

Carrying out successful succession in family businesses is an issue of vital significance for businesses themselves, and a great challenge for the pragmatics of family business management. It is also an issue important for the dynamics of Poland's economic development since it regards a wide...

This research introduces an agent-based simulation model representing the dynamic processes of cooperative R&D in the manufacturing sector of South Korea. Firms' behavior is defined according to empirical findings on the Korean Innovation Survey 2005 and captured in a multivariate probit...

In the current economic conditions effective business enterprise is impossible without constant involvement of borrowed capital. However, before planning to attract capital by obtaining bank loans, the company's financial service should assess the possibility of a loan by analyzing the solvency...

Economically analysed, global competition refers to the activities undertaken by multinational companies on foreign investment purpose developed for the production and marketing of goods worldwide. The process can be treated both in terms of competitive advantage and in terms of other factors...

Many basic economic theories with perfectly functioning markets do not predict the existence of the vast number of microenterprises readily observed across the world. We put forward a model that illuminates why financial and managerial capital constraints may impede experimentation, and thus...