The article studies the phenomenon of Taobao villages in China and its effect on sustainable development in rural area. A Taobao village is a locality (mostly a village) where more than 10% of households run an online shop, and rural e-commerce generates more than 10 million RMB per annum. The...

Purpose: Agile project management methods gain increasing attention of practitioners while they often remain neglected by scholarly research. Specifically, there is little known about how performance factors of agile firms differ from those of traditional firms. Scholars argue that these...

Purpose: While prior research suggests that human resource management (HRM) practices are crucial drivers of a firms' intellectual capital, few studies have tried to deconstruct this relationship and investigate how HRM practices specifically affect intellectual capital resources. Furthermore,...

Purpose: Human resource management in professional service firms (PSF) is one of the most important instruments for promoting sustainable competitive advantage. Despite the major growth of scholars' interest in human resource management (HRM) issues in PSF, the body of knowledge in this field...