This paper attempts to elucidate upon the current changes in the Indian Pharmaceutical Industry (IPI) brought about by the product patent regime 2005. The study relates the concept of strategic leadership as a source of competitive advantage for the firm in an industry where science and...

Boards operate notionally in a liminal, non-hierarchical space, neither inside the company nor outside, creating ambiguity between service and control functions and fostering tolerance of it. With repeated corporate governance crises, however, new prescriptions institutionalized in law,...

How do firms adapt to the risks posed by climate change? Many studies have considered business adaptation to short-term shocks and business cycles, but few have investigated risks that resemble those posed by climate change: long-term, systemic, and irreversible. In this paper, I build a novel...

What rhetorical tools are critical for managers seeking to communicate strategy? What textual features matter when developing a language of change? To explore these questions we compare Dana Corporation's 1987 strategic definitional statement, The Philosophy and Policies of Dana, with its 2004...

Corporations often engage in corporate community involvement (CCI) in order to improve the social and environmental conditions in their local communities. Firms also become involved in strategic alliances with non-governmental organizations (NGOs) to guarantee that the initiatives are...

This study examines the determinants of corporate social responsibility (CSR) and its implications on firms' investment policy, organizational strategy and performance. First, we find that firms with better performance, higher R&D intensity, better financial health, and firms in new economy...

The Internet has made it relatively easy to start a new business. It is now possible to go after target markets that are extremely small. Resonance marketing can enable a small business to find new market niches and charge premium prices. The advantages of using resonance marketing to target...

Implementing the complex Agenda 2030, with its high global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) requires, in the by now short time horizon of reference, an extraordinary effort, at all institutionals and private levels, to converge effectively on the whole system of intermediate and interrelated...

This article discusses how the theoretical perspective of ordonomics provides a framework for better understanding and advancing the practice of social entrepreneurship. From an ordonomic perspective, the concept of social entrepreneurship offers a semantic innovation (at the ideas level) whose...