The paper addresses the formation of moral consciousness in organizations. In particular, it focus to what extent and how organizational arrangements encourage and/or prohibit the development and exercise of moral judgement among newspaper professionals. The paper draws empirically from a case...

The literature on organizational learning has traditionally either conceptualized learning as an intraorganizational or as an interorganizational process without taking into consideration how these different levels of learning are interlaced. We propose an integrated conceptual framework of...

This paper combines information efficiency with the economists’ usual sense of the word “efficiency”, i.e. the allocation of resources to their most profitable expected use and at the lowest cost in terms of resources employed. The paper addresses dynamic efficiency, the ability of a...

New institutional theory has been criticized, for describing institutionalization as a static qualitative state rather than a process. In this paper we provide an extended understanding of the process of institutionalization by replacing the mechanical concept of diffusion by the concept of...

Marketing has long rested on the use of market segmentation. While birth age has been a useful way to create groups, it describes segments but does not help to understand segment motivations. However, environmental events experienced during one’s coming of age create values that remain...

This study addresses how firms’ internationalization affects CEO compensation. Based on a sample of Swedish listed firms we analyze the effect of internationalization through the product market (export), the capital market (foreign exchange listing), and the corporate governance market...

This paper investigates several issues regarding the nature, domain, conceptual foundations, and practical challenges of knowledge management and organizational learning. The paper first identifies and contrasts two fundamental philosophical orientations to knowledge management -- the personal...

Previous research demonstrates that a firm’s market orientation is influ-enced by network factors, but few regard market orientation as an inter-firm phe-nomenon, i.e. as a part of cooperative inter-firm activities and relationships. The paper suggests inter-firm market orientation as an...

Researchers have recently showed an increasing interest in understanding entrepreneurship as an experiential learning process. In this article, we investigate the role of prior career experience for the development of entrepreneurial knowledge, i.e., knowledge that facilitates for individuals to...

An emergent line of research on consumers and their evaluations of co-branding shows that a brand ally might strengthen the market position for the co-brand as well as its constituent brands. This article provides a critical review of and a discussion about the limitations of existing research....