This paper is designed to explore the nature of information system development in small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs), by appeal to three theories: contingency, agency and markets vs hierarchies. To address these theories empirically, use is made of new data which have been gathered from a...

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is an important economic phenomenon with broad implications for .rms, employees, consumers, investors, governments and NGOs alike. This paper collects, structures and combines scattered pieces of economic theory and empirical evidence in novel ways that shed...

Managers like to think well of themselves and of the firms that employ them. Yet, such positive illusions can prejudice the evaluation of market outcomes and, as a result, provoke biased responses. In particular, we examine the possibility that managers self-servingly credit success in the...

The research examined the effect of different human resource practices such as staffing, training, participation, performance appraisal, compensation, and caring on organizational performance. Data were collected from 100 respondents based on self-administered questionnaire. Results indicated...

Based on an exhaustive and integrated business model framework, this article examines the critical differences between the two main business model paradigms – the one inherited from PC/console games and the one promoted by mobile and online games – in regard to the five main business model...

cientific knowledge is an important ingredient in the innovation process. Drawing on the knowledge-based view of the firm and the literature on the relationship between science and technology, this paper scrutinizes the importance of university scientists mobility for firms innovative...

The tax laws of most developed countries are debt biased since firms can deduct interest on debt but not on equity. This bias is known to distort investment decisions. However, less is known about how the debt tax shield affects the ownership of assets when bidders differ financial expertise and...

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...

Spanish Abstract: Las estrategias económicas de los grupos magallánicos en la Patagonia argentina, con especial atención a la familia Braun-Menéndez Behety, desde finales del siglo XIX hasta la actualidad, se caracterizan por una amplia gama de inversiones diversificadas tanto en la...

Research on the nature and value of firms' dynamic capabilities has produced contradictory propositions and findings. Scholars have argued that contingency theorizing has the potential to improve our understanding, as the context in which dynamic capabilities are deployed may affect their value....