Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to gain an understanding of the growth performance of top African American‐owned employer firms when compared with their White counterparts. Design/methodology/approach – The paper uses longitudinal, revenue data from a sample of the largest African...

Purpose In this paper we look at how U.S. printers perceive offshoring trends in the printing industry, and explore how they are responding to its opportunities and challenges. Methodology/ Approach We relied on data collection comprising of three stages, exploratory interviews, an industry...

A Research Monograph of the Printing Industry Center at RIT

Purpose: Mentoring relationships have been proposed as a potential intervention to alleviate gender disparities in scholarly output. Yet, previous research has not provided a systematic understanding of the relationship between mentoring and scholarly output. The authors propose that...

One critical proposition in normative strategic management research is that an accurate perception of the environment by top managers is a prerequisite to attaining better organizational performance. However, recent entrepreneurship studies suggest that entrepreneurs are often leading or even...

This paper investigates how Chinese SMEs configure marketing, cost-control, and innovation strategies in order to attain better organizational effectiveness. Rather than the more standard approach of suggesting that SMEs focus exclusively on one strategy, we hypothesize that when a strategy...

Rather than re-examine the question of whether doing good generally helps a company to do well, this study draws on contingency theory to empirically examine when doing good helps a company do as well as possible. Using panel data, we examine the effects of industry life cycle, munificence, and...