The analysis investigates the relationship between universities, public research institutes and innovation in companies belonging to the green economy. By adopting a ‘general to specific’ specification strategy ‘a la Hendry’, the analysis sheds light on previously unexplored determinants...

With the focus of this conference on resource scarcity and resource constraints, it seemed to me that a key aspect of ensuring resource availability is distribution. But distribution depends on the perception of risk, which therefore determines price and availability. When can distribution be...

Relationship marketing has received much attention in the last two decades from both practitioners and researchers as one of the strategies firms can employ to remain competitive. Despite this attention, little empirical research has been performed about relationship-marketing practices among...

It is evident that China’s manufacturing‐based growth model increasingly contradicts local, regional and global environmental imperatives. It is therefore of high importance to identify cost‐efficient strategies for greening the growth path of China. On 25 May 2011 the OECD has launched a...

In the past seventeen years Rwanda has been in the process of recovering from the 1994 genocide. The country is currently rebuilding itself, with considerable success. One of the main components of the post-genocide reconstruction of Rwanda is the government’s development plan called...

Since firms’ rationale to outsource parts of their IT function are mainly based on cost reduction, many vendors applied a high level of standardization in organizing the delivery of IT services to decrease their cost level. As the environment of firms changes frequently, it is of key...

Over a period of three years, Bogor Agricultural University/Institut Pertanian Bogor (IPB) and Maastricht School of Management (MsM) have been executing the multi-annual project Round Table Indonesia, www.roundtableindonesia.net. This project aimed at contributing to the improvement of a...

The purpose of this study is to determine whether there are common conceptions of high performance organizations (HPOs) among business students in South Africa and Tanzania, as the perceptions of these students will influence the structure and use of future HPOs. Questionnaire data were...

Previous research identified that the delivery of integrated IT services requires intensive coordination. The aim of this research is to create a deeper understanding in how a vendor coordinates the delivery of integrated IT services to their clients as part of an outsourcing arrangement. This...