Franchising is one of the most used strategies and/or modes for growing and expanding business as franchisors and starting new ventures as franchisees from the other side. Franchising is used for growing and expanding business not only in domestic but also in the international market. It can be...

Considering the great importance of franchising for economic development at the global level, the research of this business concept is very important for its further improvement. Despite the existence of a number of studies on the topic of franchising, this area is still insufficiently...

COVID-19 pandemic continues to produce substantial effects in various spheres of life in the world. This process is expected to change the attitude and behavior of the society especially by forcing to adopt some technologies, digital means that have not been used before, to keep the social...

Traditional insurance is being threatened as the global business environment becomes more competitive. This paper investigates the influence of competitive intelligence on organizational sustainability of the Nigerian insurance industry. The study employed a cross-sectional survey design in data...

With the pressing need for quality improvement and with a view to adopting Lean as a systematic management approach in a crisis-ridden health care sector in South Africa, it was an opportune time to investigate the baseline level of knowledge and experience of Lean amongst senior health care...

The present article is carried out with the purpose of exposing the reader to the statistical-structural weaknesses that the management indicators or key performance indicators may have -better known as KPIs-, used as measures to quantify the performance of a company or organization, especially...

Coworking spaces (CWS) are open creative labs that provide a community-like environment and the necessary surroundings for their users to build and maintain networks with different actors inside and outside the CWS. With a wide variety of knowledge and skills available in trusted surroundings as...

An extended technology acceptance model for matchmaking tools in coworking spaces is presented and tested among 92 German coworkers. Advancing previous research, hedonic and community-related aspects are integrated into a framework based on the extended unified theory of acceptance and use of...

Achieving and sustaining growth depends on the effective work of multiple and interconnected actors—such as e.g. governments, the private sector, society, universities, entrepreneurs and many others—who build an ecosystem, i.e. a social and economic environment for innovative and...

This study extends dynamic capabilities research by examining the underlying and fundamental concepts of capabilities, resource allocation, fungibility, and environmental change with respect to value creation and appropriation (VCA). Scholars generally assume that VCA depends on the amount of...