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...

During the last several years, extensive attention has been paid to the issues relating to strategic planning. Even though practitioners and academicians have been continuing their debates on the merits of strategic planning. The literature on planning in small business has grown considerably...

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...

This study investigates how companies adjusted their investments in key strategic resources -- i.e., their workforce, capital expenditures, R&D, and CSR -- in response to the sharp increase in the cost of credit (the "credit crunch") during the financial crisis of 2007-2009. We compare companies...

Corporate Strategy is concerned with managing information that is systemic for quick decision making in organizations. Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) programs are increasingly becoming popular in use as an element in the overall corporate strategy of many companies today. Over the years,...

The knowledge base of an organization is considered its intellectual capital, and is increasingly emphasized as a vital source of competitive advantage. Engineering, managing, and leveraging knowledge (individual-, group-, and organizational-level knowledge) are becoming strategic activities in...

The organization that wants to build competitive advantages has to create and leverage its capabilities. One of the central bases for achieving competitive advantage is the organizational capability to create new knowledge and transfer it across various levels and parts of the organization....

Based on the most recent annual report of thyssenkrupp we look for various features of modern risk management. It appears that there could be challenges to have a full view of low probability and high impact risks, to be able to perceive concentration as well as wrong way risks and to capture...

In this paper we examine strategies of business incubation in the following countries: the USA, Germany and Russia using both a comparative theoretical analysis of different performance criteria of business incubators and interviewing experts who work directly with startup companies. We find...

Recently, innovation and internationalization strategies have explained firm success. Some authors argue that innovation settles internationalization while some others point that internationalization settles the firm's innovation level. This work unifies these theories, arguing that both are a...