Summary A reliable leading indicator should possess the following properties: (1) The movements in the indicator series should resemble those in the business cycle reference series. (2) The relation between the reference series and the indicator should be statistically significant and stable...

Zusammenfassung Eine von vielen Kontroversen in der Debatte um eine nachhaltige, ländliche Regionalentwicklung durch Tourismus entzündet sich an der Frage, inwiefern eine gezielte Entwicklung des Tourismussektors, im Rahmen der derzeit in vielen Emerging Economies verfolgten...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the existence of unobserved heterogeneity in the critical drivers of firms’ international expansion. Testing for unobserved heterogeneity assists researchers to come up with precise interpretations and valid conclusions....

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to discuss Centrolac, a Nicaraguan company engaged in processing ultra-pasteurized milk, and provides abundant information for readers to decide on vertical vs horizontal integration to deal with the changing competitive environment. It has been prepared to...

Purpose – The absence of an effective model for conceptualising and evaluating the interorganisational relationships within infrastructure delivery systems has been blamed for the seeming inability of implementation analysts to discover the causes of implementation gaps (disjuncture)...

Purpose This study aims to analyze the motivations underlying information usefulness, attitude and acceptance of health information related to coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) avoidance based on the information acceptance model (IAM) and the elaboration likelihood model (ELM)....

Purpose This study aims to examine the effect of entrepreneurial resources on micro businesses and the mediating role of innovation capability in this relationship. Design/methodology/approach A structured questionnaire was used to gather data for this quantitative study, which adopted partial...

Purpose – This paper aims to study Nissan's “go‐global” strategy. It aims to understand the various imperatives that a company needs to operate at multiple locations, how it chooses among various locations and how it goes about implementing the expansion plan considering a specific case...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the determinants of three different types of bank liquidity: funding liquidity, liquidity creation, and stock liquidity in emerging markets. Design/methodology/approach It uses an extensive set of data from all the listed banks of Brazil, Russia,...

Purpose – Against the backcloth of a growing geopolitical and economic importance of emerging economies, this paper seeks to ask whether emerging economy firms are willing to match their increased economic weight with greater social responsibility. Given a relative scarcity of research into...