This paper investigates the financial consequences of entrepreneurial growth actions in a start-up. It argues that the growth actions in a start-up create an imbalance in the demand for and supply of money for the start-up. This imbalance does not hurt if the external business environment is...

Purpose Firms take design leaps when they imitate an established business model developed either by another firm or in another market to create business opportunities. While recent research has suggested the use of contextual intelligence for imitation, the exact process of adaptation of a...

While previous research has explored the linkages of strategic orientations and innovation for large businesses of developed economies, relatively little is known about these linkages for SMEs of emerging economies. To study these linkages, data were collected from owners or senior executives of...

Purpose: In this paper, the authors undertake a systematic analysis of multinationality–performance (M-P) literature published in the last decade, when antecedents for internationalization and moderators of the M-P relationship had attained a center stage in international business and...

Evolution of strategic management has been like a swinging pendulum. Theoretically it has oscillated between perspective external to the firm and internal firm characteristics and methodologically between quantitative and qualitative methods. The rise of resource based view and associated...