Stakeholder participation in decision making processes promises fairness, effectiveness and efficiency and has become the orthodoxy in a wide variety of policy areas, especially in environmental policy making and governance. Central to stakeholder participation is the identification and...

Stakeholder participation in decision making processes promises fairness, effectiveness and efficiency and has become the orthodoxy in a wide variety of policy areas, especially in environmental policy making and governance. Central to stakeholder participation is the identification and...

Increasingly, funding of academic research is carried out through the support of collaboration, rather than through single awards to a sole grant holder. The practice is well supported by evidence that larger, network-based research achieve high quality while leading to a number of capacity...

Books reviewed: Stefan H. Thomke, Experimentation Matters: Unlocking the Potential of New Technologies for Innovation Richard L. Lynch, John G. Diezemann and James F. Dowling, The Capable Company: Building the Capabilities that Make Strategy Work Georges Haour, Resolving the Innovation Paradox -...

In the channels literature, research involving behavioural constructs is extensive. However, there have been persistent calls for more comprehensive models to explain channel phenomena (Anderson and Narus 1984; Anderson and Narus 1990; Gattorna 1978, Stern and Reve 1980) particularly where all construct...

Japanese multinational companies (MNCs) have often been portrayed as highly centralised firms that limit the roles of overseas subsidiaries to the assembly and sale of standardised products designed and developed in Japan (see, e.g. Bartlett and Ghoshal, 1989: 51-2, 158-161). Their foreign...

Much recent work on firms' capabilities and competitive competences builds on Penrose's (1959) seminal contribution to the theory of the firm in emphasising their organisational nature, and the critical role of managerial routines in transforming resources into distinctive services (see, e.g....

Achieving a good response rate is a goal in every survey. Response rate has also become an interesting academic debate. On one side Hunt (1990) maintains that since marketing is a social science, where most of the time researchers are interested in examining relationships rather than determining...