As a result of catastrophic events, firms and other organizations are faced with input shortages and price shocks. Firms can respond to these events using a variety of “resilience” actions, or tactics. Here we provide a microeconomic foundation for analyzing a comprehensive range of these...

The paper analyses the family firm through the set of companies under the control of a family, instead of limiting the research to the listed companies, as commonly done in literature. The paper describes 103 family business groups belonging to the IEF, Instituto de la Empresa Familiar. Firstly,...

Paper's objectives: The paper aims to explore the negative impacts of social relationships (SR) on business activity. As a research context, the video game industry (VGI) and the video game developers' (VGDs) relationships are analyzed. Design/methods: 17 semistructured in-depth interviews and 1...

This study explores explanations for costs increases during the front-end of road projects, which includes the planning stages up until the project execution starts, through an analysis of project governance and cost-estimation practice in the Norwegian Public Road Administration. We group the...

This is an analysis on management skills and capabilities that should be taken into account in the family business internationalising procedure. Also the importance of IT is studied in facilitating such a procedure. Family business problimatics is also mentioned, as well as its...

La responsabilité sociale des entreprises (RSE) peut-elle devenir un objectif de l'entreprise ? Comment expliquer son succès actuel ? Pour répondre à ces questions, ce texte revient d'abord sur les objectifs assignés à l'entreprise dans les différentes théories contemporaines. Les...

This paper investigates causalities between small businesses and the shadow economy in ten New Member States of the European Union in the years 2000–2005. The transition from a centrally planned to a market economy, with deregulation and privatization of economic activities, has yielded new...

The article analyze the strategy of the international multi-location production of the Mondragon Corporation during the period 1999-2009, as a case of cooperative innovation towards a people-centred globalization. This seeks to protect the employment and competitiveness in the parent...

Cette recherche met l’accent sur les conditions relatives à l’élaboration d’une plateforme technologique dans l’objectif d’identifier quelle en est, ou quelles en sont, les composantes clefs structurant l’émergence d’un écosystème d’affaires. Elle mobilise pour cela la...

It is widely recognized that the economic recovery largely depends on the improvement of the SME sector. In the order to determine the opportunities and to analyze the challenges faced by Romanian SMEs in (post)crises period, the paper presents first a short review of the national economy and...