Die Wahl eines geeigneten Kooperationspartners stellt einen bedeutenden Faktor für das Gelingen einer Unternehmenskooperation dar. Trotz der hohen strategischen Wichtigkeit von Kooperationen ist bisher weder abschließend geklärt, nach welchen Kriterien Unternehmen ihre Kooperationspartner...

This study investigates the moderating influence of R&D intensity on the relationships between family management and firm performance in private firms. The results confirm that R&D intensity reinforces the negative effect of family management on firm performance. More specifically, we obtain...

Innovation is the principle driver of firm and economic growth. Thus one disturbing trend that may explain stagnant growth is a 65% decline in firms' RQ. We propose that the rise of outside CEOs is partially responsible for the decline. While this proposition was motivated by interviews with...

Purpose: To explore a range of institutional, environmental, and policy conditions that influence the creation of “bossless” or “flat” companies, i.e., firms with little or no formal hierarchy.Approach: We build on the theory and evidence presented by Foss and Klein (2022) in their study...

Determining what factors influence firm performance constitutes an essential issue in both the management and the family firm research fields. This article, building on the resource-based view perspective, develops a mediation model that involves a unique intervening mechanism, namely,...

As technology has advanced, many have wondered whether (or simply when) artificial intelligent devices will replace the humans who perform complex, interactive, interpersonal tasks such as dispute resolution. Has science now progressed to the point that artificial intelligence devices can...

The current study employs social cognitive theory to analyze the moderated mediation model of self-leadership and innovative work behavior. Further, this research assesses the mediating impact of knowledge sharing, and the moderating effect of creative self-efficacy in the above-mentioned direct...

Previous research on functional diversity in teams has produced conflicting findings. Most research since 1992 has used counts of the number of different functions or one of two measures that apply different weights to the proportion of individuals within each functional category. Scholars have...

The decision for development of the quality providing system could go in line with the company’s expansion and with the concept of the total quality management (TQM). The most diligent-untouchable assets within the companies are referring to the relation with the customers/consumers,...

Businesses are responding to the threat of disruptive innovation technologies by upgrading their capabilities and practices. These upgrades ensure implementing organizations become more adaptable, and flexible, with respect to their ability to alter business strategies in response to changing...