/value – Improving the environmental performance of business firms through the adoption of sustainability practices is compatible with … competitiveness and improved financial performance. In Mexico, one might expect that the same would be true, but only anecdotal …

-employment of an experimental design, causality cannot be determined. If managers use signals to determine performance, then … determining and care whether what they are actually measuring is accurate in terms of spontaneous behaviors performance …

Purpose The Purpose of this paper is to examine the difference in the performance of Small Business using … which this strategic orientation contributes to the superior performance of manufacturing SMEs. Design … the operation of SMEs contributes to superior performance, which in turn enables them to thrive in institutionally complex …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the antecedents and performance outcomes when startup firms in the US … performance but not on a composite multifactor measure of performance. Additional analyses suggest the effectiveness of consulting … attributes. Research limitations/implications This study focuses on the impact of consultants on new venture performance in a …

Purpose – This paper aims to examine the relationship between workplace fun and three elements of job performance: task … performance, organizational citizenship behaviors and creative performance. Positive affect and engagement are proposed as … mediators of the relationships between fun at work and performance. Design/methodology/approach – A sample of 245 working …

simultaneously considered has a positive effect on firm performance. Design/methodology/approach – This study relies on the two … retail firms and found out the relationship between culturally determined entry mode and firm performance is positively … appropriately understand cultural distance demonstrated higher performance in the target country. Originality/value – This study …

between entrepreneurial orientation (EO) and small and medium enterprises (SMEs)’ performance. Design/methodology/approach – A … relationship with SME performance. MO will mediate the relationship between EO and SMEs’ performance. Practical implications – The … entrepreneurial firms tend to be highly market orientated and this affects SMEs’ performance. Originality/value – The results of this …

performance of 34 companies in the consumer banking, credit card, insurance, oil (lubricants) and automotive industries in … management consultancy that specialises in assessing and improving CM. CM performance was found to be especially poor in …

study further aims to investigate the relationships between market orientation and business performance. Design … between market orientation and its performance. Four performance measures – student growth, market share, teaching and service … quality – and overall performance were used to investigate their relationships with market orientation. All four measures were …