You cannot compete in time with airlines on transcontinental runs, but you can outstrip them in comfort, safety, dependability of service, and also show the passenger the countryside. This, we believe, is a permanent market (Edward G. Budd Jr, speech before the American Association of Passenger...

Strategy research often aims to empirically establish a causal relationship between an independent variable and a dependent variable such as firm performance. For many important strategy research questions, however, traditional empirical techniques are not sufficient to establish causal effects...

Corporate identity (CI) is getting an increasingly important factor in business success because the synergic CI can mean higher profit or price and the engagement of customers or employees. Identification helps to build loyalty and competitive edge, and nowadays the trust and reputation often...

This paper presents an agent-based simulation framework for the analysis of the equilibria emergence in a complex structure such as an organization; we can think of some of these equilibria as corporate culture. We concentrate on modeling the effort exerted by heterogeneous agents in an...

Entrepreneurship has been described by Schumpeter as an individual innovator gifted with vision, capacity to take risk and power to convince others to contribute. The School of Louvain has shown that entrepreneurship could also be a collective endeavor and take place in large companies. Today...

The scale and complexity of change in software process improvement (SPI) are considerable and managerial attention to organizational culture during SPI can therefore potentially contribute to successful outcomes. However, we know little about the impact of variations in organizational subculture...

Teamwork and cooperation between workers can be of substantial value to a firm, yet the level of worker cooperation often varies between individual firms. We show that these differences can be the result of labor market competition if workers have heterogeneous preferences and preferences are...

It has been claimed that the market fosters selfishness and thereby undermines the moral basis of society. This thesis has been developed with an emphasis on market exchange. Everyday life is, however, predominantly shaped by interactions in the workplace rather than by shopping behaviour. This...

Статья посвящена вопросу органического соединения стратегии развития предпринимательской организации с формированием и функционированием корпоративной...