We analyze how ownership concentration and type, and board independence are related to corporate social performance (CSP). Drawing from agency, team production and stakeholder perspectives, we argue that the distribution of costs and benefits to shareholders and other stakeholders is crucial to...

The aim of this paper is to carry out a systematic literature review about the relationships between quality management, innovation, and performance. For that end, a search was carried out in the Web of Science and Scopus databases, and 172 articles were selected. Results show that there is a...

The purpose of the research is to analyze the organizational antecedents of marketing capabilities and their impact on business performance using a sample of small and medium enterprises (SMEs). More specifically, the research analyzes the effect of the organizations’ internal marketing (IM)...

This study investigates differences in the policies being pursued by innovative and non-innovative firms. It focuses on a broad group of strategies in marketing, finance, production, management and human resources and asks whether there are key areas in which the strategies being followed by...

We extend prior empirical research on the questions of whether, how much, and under which conditions strategic leaders matter to the fate of their firms. With a 20-year Panel of 110 German firms, our analysis broadens the prevalent focus on CEO influences in U.S. settings. The results indicate...

The Purpose of the study is to explore how internal and external factors affect the relations among privatisation, management control system (MCS) changes and firm performance. The research method took a form of case study method, which allows a qualitative research approach. It gives a...

Across industries, firms have adopted e-business to better manage their internal business processes, as well as their interfaces with the environment. However, little is known about (1) the variations in e-business adoption patterns across businesses, (2) the antecedents of such variations, and...

This paper addresses the performance of creative firms from the perspective of complex spatial systems. Based on an extensive high-dimensional database on both the attributes of individual creative firms in the Netherlands and a series of detailed regional facilitating and driving factors...

We explore whether the introduction of trust based working hours is related to the subsequent innovation performance of firms. Employing a panel data set of over 5,000 German establishments, we implement a propensity score matching approach where we only consider firms that did not use trust...

This paper examines whether and, if so, why source country heterogeneity exists in foreign direct investment (FDI). Using detailed data on all Swedish firms for the period from 1996 to 2009, we find statistical evidence that affiliate performance differs systematically across source countries....