While lack of scale economies have traditionally limited the use of human capital programs among small and medium enterprises (SMEs), outsourcing models have recently emerged to provide cost-effective access to these programs. Drawing on the diffusion of innovation literature, we apply the...

The role of top managers in shaping the performance of the firms that employthem represents a central issue to strategic management research. Indeed, a substantialamount of research has examined potential linkages between the characteristics of topmanagers and firm performance. However the...