This article provides background to measuring local government service performance in New Zealand and charts the practice of measuring service levels developed for a large city council. Projects were completed in 2007, 2008, and 2009 for the purpose of informing the city council's strategy...

Given the importance of the CEO in adapting to a changing environment, and the role that identification of opportunities for change plays in organizational adaptation, with this study we investigate the individual-level cognitive factors that affect change in a CEO's existing opportunity images....

While research in entrepreneurship continues to increase general understanding of the opportunity-recognition process, questions about its nature nonetheless persist. In this study, we seek to complement recent research that relates "the self" to the opportunity-recognition process by deepening...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to provide insights into how nascent entrepreneurs persist despite outward appearances of little progress by using participant observations, and autobiographical and interview data. Design/methodology/approach: Utilizing a multi-year case study, the authors...