Over the past two decades, there has been a substantial shift in the global innovation landscape. Multinationals from developed economies are increasingly globalizing their R & D activities and are developing an “open innovation” model to source innovations from outside the firm, including...

Data on the expansion of 94 commercial banks in India from 1948 to 2003 were analyzed to test the proposition that political pluralism – wherein competing parties control the state and national governments of a nation – can promote business expansion. The results confirm that such political...

Why would high-status organizations, presumably secure in their positions, resort to illegality? This study considered the possibility that status theory might have overestimated the relative security of high-status organizations. Our theory that an inability to meet associates' expectations...