Purpose – This paper seeks to address how major companies adjust their behaviour and definitions of corporate social responsibility (CSR) when exposed to “critical incidents”. Design/methodology/approach – This is a qualitative explorative study including two cases from the Norwegian oil...

This paper asks whether the service - dominant logic is superior to the traditional goods - dominant logic for the use of licensing to commercialize new technologies internationally - and why so. To answer this question two case of licensing float glass, a float glass manufacturing technology...

As several writers have indicated, significant deviations from the competitive model are found in pharmaceutical markets. Aside from barriers related to scale economies, technological factors and demand conditions, a variety of legal restraints are placed on production, distribution and...

This paper reports a study conducted in order to explore the impact of resources, environmental contact, and various management related indicators on organizational innovativeness. A strong positive relationship was found between environmental contact and organizational innovativeness, while...

Effective co-ordination of business-to-business relationships is an important determinant of firms' competitiveness under changing market conditions. Drawing on transaction cost analysis (TCA) and resource-dependence theory (RDT), the authors analyse the effects of inter-firm dependence and...