This paper analyses the Dow Jones daily industry sector total return indices for the last 18 years and the Data Stream daily industry sector price indices over the past 30 years. We show how broad movements in both sets of data can be described in terms of five underlying variables and how...

The purpose of this study is to investigate the impact of the leader's change-promoting behavior on employee's readiness for change and whether the organizational culture mediates this relationship. A sample of 205 responses is drawn from employees having junior or senior level of managerial...

The innovativeness of an organization has an important impact on its profitability as well as on the competitiveness of a country's economy as a whole. Since the innovativeness of Slovenian organizations is low, it is important that managers and industrial policy makers know which factors...

Business angels are a vital source of capital for innovative startup firms. However, even of those startups that have the potential to fulfill angel investors’ expected return on investment, most are rejected during the angel’s investment decision process. Information asymmetry, risk and...

This study empirically delineates the nature of explorative and exploitative alliances, examines how they affect product and process innovations, and investigates how such effects vary in different contexts. Using a sample of 220 Chinese firms in the glass industry, we find that explorative...

This paper proposes a research framework to conduct comparative studies of service quality and consumer satisfaction between two bordering cities. Through interviewing one city’s consumers about their consumption experiences in some selected services in both cities, we use the structural...

Only a few studies have been published examining consumer preferences for wooden surfaces (interior cladding). The purpose of the study was to develop and test measures for three four variables: preference, perceived harmony, reaction to complexity and perceived social status. For doing this, we...

This study investigates the critical success factors for knowledge management implementation via empirical surveys among Taiwan’s life insurance enterprises using structure equation modeling. We find that individual characteristics, knowledge management characteristics and organizational...

Knowledge management facilitates the firms and employees to deliver better products and services and hence achieve competitive advantages and profits. The issues of knowledge management have drawn much attention form industry and academia. However, few reports have been found available...

The objective of this paper is to study the direct and mediating effects on the motivation to become self-employed of a set of two individual factors (entrepreneurial self-efficacy and risk-taking) and five environmental factors (family self-employment background, social networks, social norms,...