Drawing upon the literature on knowledge management, leadership, and innovation, this study investigates the possible associations among customer knowledge management, knowledge-oriented leadership, innovation quality, and firm performance in 283 small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in...

Drawing upon the literature on knowledge management, leadership, and innovation, this study investigates the possible associations among customer knowledge management, knowledge-oriented leadership, innovation quality, and firm performance in 283 small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in...

The purpose of this paper was to continue the discussion on the representation of resources as a part of the business model concept. Recently, a business model concept has been proposed to support managing the exploitation of business opportunities. Such exploitation generates a need to select...

Objective - The vital role of entrepreneurial orientation (EO) on firm performance has been widely studied in developed countries. Most studies have found a positive linear relationship between EO and firm performance. However, the empirical findings are inconclusive. According to the recent...

We explore the role of ownership, governance and management characteristics as potential drivers of the performance gaps between firms located in the Centre and North and in the South of Italy. First, we document that southern firms are characterized by more frequent family ownership and a...

This explorative study sees the sights of the succession process and its achievement as part of family business long-term survival. This represents a huge challenge considering that only three of ten companies can reach second generation and also one of these ten companies will reach third...

Exploration-exploitation research to date has understudied the issue of multiple performance dimensions and their potential trade-offs, which leaves the application of its theory to the context of start-ups exposed to blind spots. The importance of acquisition likelihood as a performance outcome...

The paper elaborates on succession planning among Polish family businesses. Research survey was conducted on a random sample of 496 family enterprises in first quarter of 2009 (first phase, survey) and 61 family enterprises in third quarter of 2009 (second phase, in-depth-interview). The main...

Drawing on the resource-based view, we propose a configurational perspective of how IT assets and capabilities affect firm performance. Our premise is that IT assets and IT managerial capabilities are components in organizational design, and, as such, their impact can only be understood by...

How do organizations build trust under varying degrees of uncertainty? In this article, we propose that different degrees of uncertainty require different bases of trust. We distinguish between three different forms of trust production (process-based, characteristics-based and institution-based)...