Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to extend the social loafing literature by investigating the role of group development process on perceptions of social loafing within groups. Building on extant literature, it is contended that group members’ association with the group development stages...

Purpose: More studies have investigated the relation between option measures and stock returns during scheduled corporate events. This study adds to the literature and investigates the informational role of options concerning stock returns following unscheduled corporate news events. The...

The purpose of this paper is to provide a profile of the environment for development of Small and Medium Enterprises (hereinafter referred to as SMEs) in Sichuan, China. Focus group discussions and case analyses were used to diagnose problems that SMEs encountered in technology implementation...