A Research Monograph of the Printing Industry Center at RIT

One critical proposition in normative strategic management research is that an accurate perception of the environment by top managers is a prerequisite to attaining better organizational performance. However, recent entrepreneurship studies suggest that entrepreneurs are often leading or even...

This paper investigates how Chinese SMEs configure marketing, cost-control, and innovation strategies in order to attain better organizational effectiveness. Rather than the more standard approach of suggesting that SMEs focus exclusively on one strategy, we hypothesize that when a strategy...

Rather than re-examine the question of whether doing good generally helps a company to do well, this study draws on contingency theory to empirically examine when doing good helps a company do as well as possible. Using panel data, we examine the effects of industry life cycle, munificence, and...

This paper investigates the impact of foreign trade on China’s pollution emissions using an input-output model. General y speaking, as exports are more pollution-intensive than imports, foreign trade helps reduce China’s emissions. Given the huge surplus of trade in goods and declines in the...

Covalent organic frameworks (COFs) are promising supports for the synthesis of noble metal nanoparticles (NM NPs) with controllable sizes and dispersities. However, it is still challenging to synthesize COFs using green and efficient routes. Herein, COFs (TpMA) were prepared by ball milling,...

Leading technology companies such as Google and Facebook have been experimenting with people analytics, a new data-driven approach to human resources management. People analytics is just one example of the new phenomenon of “big data,” in which analyses of huge sets of quantitative...

Most research on new product and service development by entrepreneurial firms takes an individual-level, prelaunch perspective or firm-level postlaunch perspective. Our study examines two components of the new product and service introduction process: how entrepreneurs’ prior knowledge...