Today’s rough competition at a global level in all spheres of activity imposes companies worldwide to make sustained efforts in order to improve their products, services and processes. The automotive industry has always provided valuable examples of companies that achieved business excellence...

En el trabajo se analizan los niveles de implantación de sistemas de gestión de la calidad (SGC) en empresas del sur de España y norte de Marruecos, y las motivaciones, beneficios o barreras detectadas. Se ha tomado para ello una muestra de 322 empresas. A diferencia de otros estudios,...

Der Businessplan hat sich in den letzten Jahrzehnten zu einem zentralen Instrument der Unternehmensgründung entwickelt. Es geht der Mythos einher, dass es schier unmöglich ist, ohne Businessplan ein erfolgreicher Gründer zu werden. Sein Ansehen hat er der heutigen Businessplanindustrie zu...

Achieving and sustaining growth depends on the effective work of multiple and interconnected actors—such as e.g. governments, the private sector, society, universities, entrepreneurs and many others—who build an ecosystem, i.e. a social and economic environment for innovative and...

The purpose of this paper is to examine whether adopting OECD-prescribed corporate governance principles can solve the major corporate governance problem in an emerging economy - controlling-shareholder expropriation. We argue that none of any "good corporate governance practices" in OECD...

This paper looks at value creation from corporate futures research. Through a literature review, potential value creation is identified. This serves as guidance for an empirical investigation in which value creation is observed and linked to methods and practices. Using data from 20 case...

This paper attempts to identify and evaluate certain critical pitfalls in the planning stage of ERP adoption in Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) and develop into a model for evaluating the risk of failure. In the planning stage a set of risks have been identified based on past research work...

This research paper addresses the adoption of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and examine their effect on organizational performance and Return-on-Investment (ROI) in Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs). In this two-part paper, the first part identifies and measures tangible and intangible...

In this paper we explore the current understanding on how firms explore future changes and trends as well as plan their managerial responses. We review literature in four research streams: (1) environmental scanning, (2) futures research, (3) peripheral vision, and (4) corporate/strategic...