Research on entrepreneurship in family controlled enterprises is fairly young, though the contribution of such businesses to economies across the world has been very significant. It is now proven that creation of new ventures in family business is different from that in non-family business...

This paper argues that while in principle offshoring allows firms to pursue greater flexibility at lower costs, in practice it presents firms with major structural and managerial challenges. Adopting the activity configuration perspective, we argue that offshoring often disrupts the development...

This article examines online gift giving in the form of opinion, information, and advice that individuals post on websites. Research has highlighted altruism and reciprocity as the key motives behind such gift giving. We argue that informational gift giving is also strongly driven by status and...