Management scholars have sought to answer the question: is there a financial payoff for ad-dressing ecological and social issues? We move beyond this question and include a time com-ponent for corporate financial performance (CFP) and a firm’s innovativeness in order to ask: when does it pay?...

Purpose – The purpose of this study is to propose to use the economic value added to measure firm performance against information security investments. Design/methodology/approach – The authors develop a conceptual framework to capture non information technology (IT)-related and IT-related...

The authors use a panel of more than 1,500 New Zealand firms, from a diverse range of industries, to examine how the adoption of human resource management (HRM) practices affects firm performance. The panel is based on managerial responses to mandatory surveys of management practices in 2001 and...

El objetivo de esta investigacion es doble. En primer lugar, se realiza un analisis descriptivo sobre la implantacion del ecoetiquetado en las empresas espanolas de la cadena de valor (produccion, procesado y comercializacion) de productos pesqueros y acuicolas contrastando si las empresas que...

The concept of strategic groups has been successfully applied for analyzing firm strategies, structures and performance in various industries. Based on a largescale empirical study, this paper identifies strategic groups in the German brewing industry and analyzes the effects of group membership...

The paper discusses some definitions of knowledge as a potential source of competitive advantage. It reviews the literature pertaining to the assessment of knowledge assets. According to the resource-based view, which links the competitive advantage of organizations with resources and...

There are contradicting results on the effect of enterprise resource planning (ERP) adoption to the profitability of firms. International evidence suggests that ERP systems are one of the important drivers of a firm's successful performance and competitiveness. The objective of this study is to...

This research investigates the effects of just-in-time selling (JITS) strategy on firms' performance. A structural model is proposed that consists of measures for JITS strategy, market orientation, transformational leadership, environment, and organisation performance. Data is collected from 117...

Competitive strategy is an important determinant of firm survival and success. The strategy that a firm employs reflects the specific competitive methods that its managers emphasise as well as the broad pattern showing how these methods are combined for use in the firm. In an extensive study of...

This paper explores the underlying dimensions of absorptive capacity and its impact on the performance for firms in Zambia and Mauritius. It first defines a firm's capacity to absorb spillovers as a latent variable observable indirectly through its underlying dimensions. By means of structural...