Argues that culture ‐ the commonly held symbols, beliefs, values and behaviours ‐ is perhaps the most powerful force for cohesion in the modern organization. Highlights two broad types of social relationships which are not mutually exclusive but are difficult to combine successfully:...

In his groundbreaking work Sources of Innovation, Eric von Hippel discussed from where in (and out of) the value-chain innovations came in different industries: the customer, the manufacturer, the supplier, or third-party innovator (universities, research laboratories, etc.). The world has...

This study employs resource advantage theory to identify how beef cattle value chain actors' resources are translated into the positional advantage and how that then affects their financial performance in an emerging country context. The study tested was designed to understand if: (1) the...

The case describes the dramatic journey of a movie theater "Konark Cinema" from an oligopolistic to monopolistic competition, with an enormous opportunity to skim the market today. The primary concern for the owner and management is to revive the business in order to recover the huge losses, and...