This research aims to verify whether the social status exacerbates opportunistic strategies through strategic, financial, and internal environment of citizens firms, notably, the instrumentalization of the interests of the stakeholders. Through cross sectional studies, Our results reveal that by...

Existing empirical evidence suggests that entrepreneurs are optimists, a finding researchers often interpret as evidence of a behavioral bias in entrepreneurial decision-making. We revisit this claim by analyzing an unusually large survey dataset (180,814 responses) that allows us to create a...

This paper studies how managers plan under uncertainty. In a new survey panel on German manufacturing firms, we show that uncertainty reflects change: Planning incorporates higher subjective uncertainty about future sales growth when the firm has just experienced unusual growth, and more so if...

The effect of finance business partnering (FBP) implementation on the firm performance remains largely unexplored. The main aims of this study are to investigate whether there is a significant effect between FBP and firm performance and to identify the mediating effect of non-financial...

Previous research suggests that interaction effects on financial performance may arise between activity-based costing and information systems integration but the characteristics of such effects are poorly understood. The purpose of this study is to assess the main, two-way, and three-way...

The study investigated sustainable supply chain management (SSCM) practices pertaining to environmental perspective of manufacturing companies in India. Using factor analysis, the study identified three dimensions under environmental. It included companies from distinct sectors. Sample was...

This empirical paper documents the relationship between composition of a firm's workforce (with a special focus on age and gender) and its performance (productivity and profitability) for a large representative sample of enterprises from manufacturing industries in Germany. We use unique newly...

This empirical paper documents the relationship between composition of a firm's workforce (with a special focus on age and gender) and its performance (productivity and profitability) for a large representative sample of enterprises from manufacturing industries in Germany. We use unique newly...