Once several studies have proved that the market value of the companies has distanced themselves from the book value, researchers have been searching the causes that explain the high discrepancy. One research stream focuses the intangible resources, and among these, the impact that the...

This paper investigates the relationship between intellectual capital and value creation in the Textile Manufacturing Sector in Brazil. Through the access of the database from the Annual Industrial Research conducted by the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics, we gathered 644...

Aiming for superior performance, companies need to have and skillfully use rare, valuable, irreplaceable and inimitable resources, with special emphasis on intangibles, constructed in lengthy and risky processes or strategically accumulated via mergers and acquisitions (M&A). To analyze how the...

Banks' fundamental concept relies on public trust. Since banks are also called the fiduciary financial institutions, public trust plays as an important role in the banking industry. This is mainly due to the fact that banks do not actually manage their own money. Instead, banks manage public...

Since April 2020, the U.S. Census Bureau has run the Small Business Pulse Survey to measure COVID-19 impact on small employer businesses: firms with at least 1 but no more than 500 paid employees with receipts above $1,000. The most recent public data were collected in October 2021 and...

Digitalization is the core driving force of the fourth industrial revolution. This new era will result in paradigm shift in production and in marketing of products and services. The smarter production can make value creation easier with reducing the cost of manufacturing and with producing...

This study introduces and applies the Fitrah Tendencies framework to make up for the dearth of studies on academics' urges to play a part in industry. To this end, 62 academics were selected and interviewed based on Lam's (2011) typology as to come up with their main motives for engaging in...

We develop a formal model of the timing of resource development by competing firms. Our aim is to deepen and extend resource-level theorizing about sustainable competitive advantage. Our analysis formalizes the notion of barriers to imitation, particularly those based on time compression...

This article examines how leader firms should respond to the erosion of competitive advantages caused by rapid imitation and innovation in hypercompetitive environments. On the one hand, shorter-lived advantages induce leaders to develop new advantages faster. On the other hand, hypercompetition...