We examine whether earnings management spreads from firm to firm via board connections of shared directors. A firm has a higher likelihood of restating earnings in a given year if it shares a director with another firm that restated earnings either in that same year or within the past two years....

Understanding the role of knowledge and organizational learning in fostering or inhibitinginnovation becomes crucially important (Lam, 2005). Innovation is not an isolated processof neither individuals nor firms. Innovation is a process which happens in a system whereinteraction between firms,...

Customer Relationship Management (CRM) is a relatively new concept that has as its focus a customer centric business culture. More recently its focus has been on the need for the firm to tap into social community networks as a means of developing and managing relationships with customers. Whilst...

Networks traditionally have been studied in the context of areas such as industrial marketing in developed country markets and economics and sociology (focusing on livelihoods) in developing countries. There has been limited research on their influence on the decision making process of consumers...

In this study financial advisers’ relative influence on entrepreneurs’ decisions have been investigated. Financial advisers are advisers, included in entrepreneurs’ discussion networks, with whom entrepreneurs discuss financial issues. The concept of financial adviser includes a range of...