This paper presents a synthesis of the advances in supporting the shipbuilding industry in Colombia and describes the concepts and experiences that countries like Corea, China, etc., who have used this industry as an engine of development, in as much as the benefits of taking the decision to...

Carrying out successful succession in family businesses is an issue of vital significance for businesses themselves, and a great challenge for the pragmatics of family business management. It is also an issue important for the dynamics of Poland's economic development since it regards a wide...

We develop a theory of innovation for entry and sale into oligopoly, and show that inventions of higher quality are more likely to be sold (or licensed) to an incumbent due to strategic product market effects on the sales price. Such preemptive acquisitions by incumbents are shown to stimulate...

Recession and structural changes to the market for legal services are combining to create a turbulent environment for the solicitors' profession. The recession has had a significant impact on demand for legal services. Changing fee structures, increased competition, changes to ownership rules...

As well as companies, private individuals are now increasingly making use of augmented reality. All too often, augmented reality is used as a synonym for smartglasses in the media. But it offers far more: supporting people in their day-to-day activities, extending their perception and...

Trademark law is incoherent, and it fails to manage all the interests at stake in the modern business environment. This failure flows from a core misunderstanding. Trademark law has not grasped that is managing brands, not trademarks. In this article, Professor Deven Desai develops a new theory...

Some strategy scholars and practitioners contend that markets have become increasingly hypercompetitive in recent years. We examine this contention by analyzing industry and business performance patterns in a broad sample of firms drawn from the Compustat Industry Segment database for the...

In crafting their definition of a stakeholder , Post, Preston and Sachs (PPS) paraphrase what they call “Freeman's loose statement” that a “stakeholder in an organization is (by definition) any group or individual who can affect or is affected by the achievement of the activities of an...

Although outsourcing vs. vertical integration is generally treated as a binary choice in international trade literature, firm-level data reveal that inputs can be imported both within and across firms' boundaries, even within narrowly defined industries from the same host country. This paper...

On average, small business support projects appear to improve beneficiary sales, and the growth effect is obvious when supporting young or growing firms. However, the effect is largely offset by sales reductions due to overcrowding. Small business support projects must be operated in two ways to...