Management Decision: Volume 50 Issue 4

How environmental uncertainty affects the link between business strategy and performance in SMEs: Evidence from China, Turkey, and the USA

John A. Parnell, Donald L. Lester, Zhang Long, Mehmet Ali Köseoglu

This study aimed to examine the prospective role played by perceived environmental uncertainty in the strategy‐performance linkage among SMEs in China, Turkey, and the USA.

Rapid growth and rapid internationalization: the case of smaller enterprises from Canada

Christian Keen, Hamid Etemad

The main objective of this paper is to develop a deeper understanding of high growth and rapid internationalization characteristics in terms of: empirically characterizing growth…

The impact of knowledge governance on knowledge sharing

Yong Cao, Yang Xiang

Knowledge governance is an organizational mechanism that formally and informally defines how the firm manages the activities related knowledge, thus it has a significant influence…

CEO experience as micro‐level origin of dynamic capabilities

Marc Rodenbach, Malte Brettel

The aim of this paper is to corroborate with empirical validations the theoretical considerations about the influence of chief executive officers (CEOs) and their experience as…

Content analysis and assessment of international codes of franchising associations

Francisco Javier Rondán‐Cataluña, Antonio Navarro‐García, Juan Gámez‐González, Carlos J. Rodríguez‐Rad

The objective of this paper is to improve the knowledge about ethical content of franchising associations at a worldwide level.

Measuring HRM and organisational performance: concepts, issues, and framework

Satwinder Singh, Tamer K. Darwish, Ana Cristina Costa, Neil Anderson

The purpose of this paper is to contribute to the understanding of the HRM and organisational performance (OP) nexus by drawing attention to the complex interplay of internal and…

Are Spanish SMEs good places to work?

Consolación Adame‐Sánchez, María‐José Miquel‐Romero

This paper aims to perform a descriptive analysis of the current degree of development and application of work‐life balance policies in Spanish SMEs, examining the differences…

Influencing foreign subsidiary decisions through headquarter performance measurement systems

Matthias D. Mahlendorf, Jochen Rehring, Utz Schäffer, Elmar Wyszomirski

This paper aims to investigate the ability of performance measurement systems (PMS) that were implemented by headquarters at foreign subsidiaries to influence decisions made by…

From design driven innovation to meaning strategy

Cinzia Battistella, Gianluca Biotto, Alberto F. De Toni

In the stream of works showing the semantic dimension as a core concept of the product innovation (e.g. design driven innovation), the paper aims to present a new business…

A comprehensive understanding of Social and Sustainable Entrepreneurship

Lorenzo Revuelto‐Taboada, Virginia Simón‐Moya