Despite the importance of radical innovations (RI), few firms have the capability to develop such innovations internally; success is increasingly linked with relationships and networks. However, the way(s) in which relationships and networks support RI is less clear. Successfully launching RIs...

Despite 20 years of research into various aspects of the 'market orientation' (MO) construct, doubt remains regarding the existence, nature and significancy of the relationship between MO and firm performance. To obtain more evidence some authors suggest including innovation in MO models. Debate...

While the entrepreneurship and small business research literature has tended to portray women as lesser than men in identifying the differences between them, little research has looked at how gender is construed in business ownership. The purpose of this paper is to provide a new focus,...

My primary objective in this presentation is to deconstruct globalisation as a meta-narrative in order to better analyse its multiple mechanisms and consequences at a very micro level. Although it is a foregone conclusion that globalisation has affected almost all aspects of our public and...

This study adopts a holistic approach to consider how consumers perceive online shopping environments. The conceptual model proposes that consumers perceive these environments in terms of their sense-making potential and exploratory potential, and it considers the influence of these on user...

This paper aims to improve overall understanding of international entrepreneurship [IE] behaviour of SSA firms, by appraising and integrating evidence from 25 relevant SSA-focused studies. It responds to the germane calls for greater research and policy attention to firm-level international...

Purpose - This study aims to explore the key factors of the electronic service quality (e-SQ) perceptions of UK banking customers and to evaluate the customers' perceptions of their banks' actual performance on the identified e-SQ dimensions. Design/methodology/approach - A survey has been used...

This study investigated the networked relationships between agency parties involved in the process of advertising planning, internal and external to advertising agencies. The study provides a conceptual grounding for understanding the shift from dyadic to multiple relationships in advertising...

Purpose: This study explores how value co-creation occurs at a network level in a service system comprising representatives of business, consumer, and community actors. The research centres on the following questions: 1) what kind of operand and operant resources are contributed and integrated...

Evolutionary economists have tended to assess firms and industries separately, neglecting the role of their interaction in the process of economic growth and development. We trace the separation of firms and industries to the introduction of population thinking in the discipline of industrial...