Digital transition in the maritime industry creates new organizational models and affects the relationship between actors. New relationships require new business models (BMs). In addition, due to the paradigm of green shifts towards a zero-emission future of maritime shipping in 2050, stricter...

Artificially intelligent (AI) applications make data-driven predictions that enable personalization on a large scale. As such, recent advances in AI's predictive power might have the potential to create more productive work environments. Using a principal-agent model and understanding AI as...

Organizations have repeatedly faced challenges due to disasters such as pandemics, economic or financial crises, and other unexpected events. One reason why some organizations cope more efficiently than others with such unforeseen circumstances might be found in their resilience design. However,...

The profound transition that the automotive industry is facing affects all the actors that operate in it, from carmakers to suppliers. The research explores the case of two plants of a multinational company that operates in the automotive supply chain. These two plants are specialized in the...

We explore the role of ownership, governance and management characteristics as potential drivers of the performance gaps between firms located in the Centre and North and in the South of Italy. First, we document that southern firms are characterized by more frequent family ownership and a...

It is generally understood that women are under-represented in the boards of UK firms, with homogeneous boards increasingly perceived as being unfair. An organisation’s true gender diversity values, and the influence that women on boards have upon them, may be discernible from the language...

Despite differences of opinion regarding what to include as a “top risk” today, many executives agree that 2021 and beyond will likely be a period of uncommonly broad-based risks. Given the breadth of potential exposures, an alternative way to strategically approach both the challenges and...

This explorative study sees the sights of the succession process and its achievement as part of family business long-term survival. This represents a huge challenge considering that only three of ten companies can reach second generation and also one of these ten companies will reach third...

The main aim of the paper is to identify the succession strategies (especially the ways in which they attempt to balance the strive to maintain family's control over the company with the goal of firm's growth) of the first generation of Polish entrepreneurs. Research survey was conducted on a...

Exploration-exploitation research to date has understudied the issue of multiple performance dimensions and their potential trade-offs, which leaves the application of its theory to the context of start-ups exposed to blind spots. The importance of acquisition likelihood as a performance outcome...