Purpose: The purpose of this study is to compare and validate firms’ internal and external stakeholder considerations in sustainable business practices across business settings. It aims to assess the validity and reliability of a stakeholder framework appearing in previous studies....

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to create a new research direction within the domain of firms’ strategic orientations. Design/methodology/approach: Based on data from Swedish multinational corporations (MNCs), this paper identifies types, i.e. configurations, of strategic orientations...

Both Volvo and SAAB are now Chinese owned car companies. This means that a substantial amount of Swedish innovation takes place in China. In order to understand this phenomenon better and what it means to innovation strategy we look at how industrial clusters in the automobile industry in...

Purpose – The purpose is to extend the understanding of the resource base of the industrial firm's greenfield expansion on a foreign country market once a wholly owned subsidiary has been established. Design/methodology/approach – A conceptual framework is developed relying on the...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to extend the understanding of innovation research and its contextual boundaries. Design/methodology/approach The paper opts for a systematic review of literature on innovation. Based on research in the agricultural and forest industries, it analyzes...