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...

This paper examines why organizations have adopted a wide range of responses when addressing the opportunities and threats posed by commoditization. Some may choose to focus on their cost base, whilst others may focus on innovation. Whatever strategy is adopted, it will be driven by a range of...

We investigate the organizational pursuit of seemingly impossible goals - commonly known as stretch goals. Building from our analysis of the mechanisms through which stretch goals could influence organizational learning and performance, we offer a contingency framework evaluating which...

Purpose: To analyze the effect of corporate real estate asset ownership on the performances of franchise organizations. Design/methodology/approach: Using data on all available US public franchise companies, we measure the effect of corporate real estate ownership on the risk and return...

This paper extends the growing literature on the role of corporate real estate (CRE) within the corporate strategy context and addresses the need to identify the degree to which corporate real estate can be classified, and ultimately more efficiently exploited, as a strategic enterprise...

Economic sociologists have concluded that social embeddedness, characterized by trust and reciprocity, is widespread in organization-to-organization exchange. There remains, however, a tension between theorists who pose trust as an alternative logic to asocial price negotiations or contractual...

In this paper the impact and predictive effects of knowledge management on financial performance are analysed. The research also includes an analysis of the moderating effects of two moderators (National Origin and Enterprise Size) and their relationship. The data was gathered by interviewing...

We use a large micro-dataset to assess the importance of intangible capital - organisation, R&D and ICT capital - for the economic performance of establishments and regions in Germany. In 2003 self-produced intangible capital accounted for more than one fifth of the total capital stock of...

The impact of firm size on the economy and trade sector performance is lately researched due to its economic importance. Concerning it, this paper researches the specifics and determinants of impact of firm size on overall performance of distributive trade (wholesale and retail), with special...

The paper uses a unique dataset comprising the population of new ventures that enter the UK market in 1998. We argue that we would expect the effect of market concentration on firm survival to be different according to whether an industry is static (low entry and exit) or dynamic. In our...