The unprecedented outbreak of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic had a devastating effect on the global economy. Many businesses experienced a significant decline in their business activities. As a result, their employees were concerned on their job security and long-term employment prospects....

This paper explores the relationship between strategic functional domains and firm growth using the European Community Innovation Survey 2012. We provide a mapping of the joint effect of strategies on firm growth in frontier and catching-up economies. Methodologically, we explain employment...

This study analyzed activism that leads to a merger or acquisition (M&A) of a firm to see its benefits for the shareholders at the target firm as well as its acquirer. It used over thirty years of data to understand the impact of the activists’ demands of strategic significance for the firms....

This short paper is the extended part of Ghouri, et al. (2011) study. This paper presents the finding about the owners of restaurant and catering businesses marketing practices. This study showed their mindset about the marketing practices. The findings suggest that owners of restaurants and...

This study investigates if and in what way social entrepreneurs are hampered in turning their efforts into sustainable organizations. Using binary logit regressions and unique data containing approximately 26,000 individual-level data points for 36 countries, this study assesses the influences...

When planning for a major organizational change, a company's top management should take into account how the human brain's threat & reward system operates, in order to plan and foresee how the change message should be effectively communicated to the company's ranks, so a leveled playing field...

Spanish abstract: Este documento tiene como objetivo orientar la política productiva con base en evidencia empírica sobre desempeño de las empresas privadas en Argentina. Siguiendo las recomendaciones metodológicas de Eurostat y la OCDE, el documento integra conjuntos de datos de registros...

Because of its importance to a dynamic development of the economy, the formation of new firms has been viewed with greater interest from policy makers at the national, regional and local levels and from representatives of private business associations, formal and informal networks. According to...

The economic science, that proved its viability, and the practice of economic evolution of different countries strongly argue the major decisive role held by the SMEs in the economic activity within whichever country. SMEs’s special importance results from the fact that they are the principal...

This paper provides new insights on the firm age and growth nexus along the entire distribution of (positive and negative) growth rates. Using data from the EFIGE survey, and adopting a quantile regression approach we uncover evidence for a sample of French, Italian and Spanish manufacturing...