The preoccupation to consider the heterogeneity in firm behavior within an activity sector has been one of the main reasons for the search and identification of strategic groups, generating an inexhaustible debate in the scope of the strategic management. Nevertheless, this preoccupation has not...

The current business environment press companies and researchers to seek new competitive factors, that permit achieve and/or maintain competitive advantage. Among those appears the intellectual capital concept. A component that represents the strategic knowledge assets owned by the company,...

In the innovation age, the necessary technology equipment and other R&D investments are not enough to configure an innovation ecosystem. The real challenge probably consists in promoting and reaching a cultural change in order to encourage and internalize innovation capacities, values and...

This study focuses on the structure of the board of directors that is considered more suitable in terms of corporate social responsibility, and also on those contextual factors that could influence the socially responsible behavior of family firms. Empirical analysis on 535 non-listed Spanish...

This paper presents evidence on the impact of managers on cost efficiency in banking. Stochastic frontier analysis is applied to a unique Finnish data set. The paper finds that manager age and education have strong yet complicated effects. University education enhances efficiency if the manager...

A series of characteristics affects the willingness of a family business to change and renew. Both change and renewal are necessary to maintain the continuity of the company in the long term in order for it to be handed down to the following generation. Approaches to the identification of...

Bei der Nutzung von Cloud-Services besteht für Kunden das Risiko des Kontrollverlusts, da die Überwachung der Funktionalität der Cloud-Services überwiegend dem Cloud-Service-Anbieter obliegt und deshalb vom Cloud-Service-Kunden nur eingeschränkt verfolgt, überwacht und beeinflusst werden...

Small firms contribute to the economy by creating new vacancies and are the most common business form in the EU. However, small firms are not tended to expand internationally and only a limited number of small firms export to the countries outside the EU. The study aims to investigate...

Sowohl nach Handelsgesetzbuch (HGB) als auch nach International Financial ReportingStandards (IFRS) kann die Gewinn- und Verlustrechnung entweder nach dem Gesamtkostenverfahrenoder nach dem Umsatzkostenverfahren aufgestellt werden. Beide Verfahrenführen zwar zum gleichen Ergebnis, unterscheiden...

Internal communication has become an important factor in today's business world. The increased use of electronic media can, despite their obvious advantages, cause communication problems, i.e. information overload. By avoiding communication problems, the productivity of a company can be...