This study explores the relationship between organizational legitimacy and illegitimacy. It combines media content analysis and quantitative approaches to empirically investigate this link in the specific context of investment banks in the United States. Illegitimacy can paradoxically signal...

A key innovation is the entrepreneur, as this is the person making innovations to develop new products and / or services. The entrepreneur is considered the engine of technological change according to Schumpeter (1934). However, the study of the impact of the activities of such agents is...

How can a doula, be the originator of such a creative business that combines a nonprofit organization with three profitable micro businesses and in addition, be a socially responsible organization? Mujeres Ayudando a Madres (women helping mothers) is a Puerto Rican nonprofit organization whose...

The origin of organizational capabilities remains elusive to strategy managers and scholars. Because of this elusiveness, a scholar has questioned: where [do] capabilities come from [and] what kinds of investment in money, time, and managerial efforts is required in building them [Ethiraj, et...

Increasing global competition is a driving force pushing toward a networked way of doing business, as companies are forced to search for efficiency through co-operation with other companies. The underlying question is how well the companies combine and co-ordinate their value activities with...

SME Cluster Development could be an emerging force of entrepreneurship development, employment generation and poverty alleviation for any least developed country like Bangladesh. SMEs located at different clusters of Bangladesh are contributing in generating employment and income for the workers...

Trends have a crucial role in finance such as setting investment strategies and technical analysis. Determining trend changes in an optimal way is the main aim of this study. The model of this study improves the optimality by cubic b-spline fitting to the equations to reduce the error terms. The...

This research aims to analyze the impact of the implementation of strategies in the the Supply Chain Management (SCM), Manufacturing for SMEs in Aguascalientes may have a higher yield. The analysis was performed through the design of an assessment tool aimed at managers through an empirical...

Foundational to the discipline of management is the idea that organizational decisions are a function of expected outcomes; hence, the customary empirical approach to employ multivariate techniques that regress performance outcome variables on discrete measures of organizational choices (e.g.,...

This study empirically investigated how small and medium-sized Chinese apparel enterprises (SME) formed their strategy as a response to the characteristics of business environment in order to achieve competitive business performance. An environment-strategy-performance model was proposed and...