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Worldwide organisations are continually searching for new sources of competitive advantage. At the same time, they are under increasing pressure to carry out their activities so as not to harm the environment in addition to having a positive impact on society. Given these facts, our paper...
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Purpose: This study sought to establish the effect of strategic resources on performance of small and medium manufacturing enterprises. Specifically, the study sought to identify how financial resources, human resources, physical resources and intellectual capital affect performance of small and...
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Tourism businesses engage in strategic corporate social responsibility (CSR) when they integrate responsible behaviors in their operational practices (Camilleri, 2015, 2019a; Carroll & Shabana, 2010; Porter & Kramer, 2006, 2011; Van Marrewijk, 2003; Vogel, 2005). Strategic CSR activities may usually improve...
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This study defines SHRM as employee/business performance relationship. Employee performance has an impact on performance of business departments in this model; and, performance of business departments have an impact on firm performance. In addition, American model of SHRM defines SHRM with HR...
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Staff behaviour is a strategic factor in the profit and loss, so why is HR not the driver of organizational results?The OPD-Theory™ of organizational design was born from the question ‘why?' beginning with the background science, developing improved social science tools and then applying...
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This research contributes by filling the knowledge gab on how corporate culture and top down management communication style play a role in strategic goal implementation. Within this study, top down management style and corporate culture variables are correlated as synonymous of the other. This...
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Seven “Corporate Venturing” Strategies to Foster Innovation tackles the question: What should companies do to accelerate innovation and remain relevant? Or, stated differently: What should companies do to avoid being disrupted by more agile and innovative startups? One answer is corporate...
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Locally owned, northern SMEs often find themselves working out of and in small communities in sparsely populated regions. Using a constructive research design and semi-structured interviews with SMEs from Northern Finland, Norway and Iceland this study highlights the relationship between the...
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relevant social networking alternative. This paper also contrasts Facebook’s current position against Google as the later tries … to enter the social networking market place and take market share away from Facebook. From 2005 until early 2008, MySpace … was the most visited social networking site in the world, and in June 2006 surpassed Google as the most visited website in …
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Little is known about the relationship between family firms and downsizing. This study aims to close this gap. The study distinguishes between family management and family ownership as two distinct dimensions of family firms and analyzes their respective influences on downsizing. The findings...
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