Management Decision: Volume 53 Issue 6

Crowdsourcing, innovation and firm performance

Yejun Xu, D. Enrique Ribeiro-Soriano, J. Gonzalez-Garcia

The purpose of this paper is to identify whether firms that correctly use crowdfunding tools perform significantly better than firms that do not. For that purpose the authors…

Exploring absorptive capacity in cross-sector social partnerships

Thomas G Pittz, Melissa Intindola

The purpose of this paper is to explore cross-sector partnerships (CSSPs) from a strategic perspective to consider collaborations that are long lasting and transcend initial…

Integrative capability for successful partnering: a critical dynamic capability

Wei Jiang, Felix tinoziva Mavondo, Margaret Jekanyika Matanda

The purpose of this paper is to advance the concept of “integrative capability” as a critical dynamic capability (DC) and empirically investigate its implications for a firm’s…

Supporting entrepreneurial business success at the base of pyramid through entrepreneurial competencies

Syed Abidur Rahman, Azlan Amran, Noor Hazlina Ahmad, Seyedeh Khadijeh Taghizadeh

Large private organisations (LPOs) creating entrepreneurship opportunities for people at the base of the economic pyramid (BoP) is a thought-provoking issue for researchers. The…

R & D collaboration in the automotive innovation environment: An analysis of co-patenting activities

Lara Agostini, Federico Caviggioli

The purpose of this paper is twofold: to analyze to what extent innovation output of R & D collaborations, proxied by co-patenting activities in terms of quantity…

Speed leaders and quality champions: Analyzing the effect of market orientation and technology orientation alignment on new product innovation

Zongyang Leng, Zhiying Liu, Min Tan, Jiangang Pang

The purpose of this paper is to develop a concept of an alignment between market and technology orientations (MTs) and investigates the difference in new product innovation…

Does the stock market curse contractor’s bidding decision and winning a new contract?

Jongsoo Choi

The purpose of this paper is to examine the stock market reactions at the time of new construction contract winning announcements to explore whether the managements made wise…

Karl E. Weick and the dawning awareness of organized cognition

William H Starbuck

Cognitive perspectives have emerged from many years of struggle for recognition, and grown into a dominant theme in psychology. The purpose of this paper is to discuss what Karl…

What managers should never want to hear: silence

Mark E. Haskins, R. Edward Freeman

Every organizational member makes a daily decision to speak up or to be silent on a host of issues. Silence can be problematic. The purpose of this paper is to posit that managers…

The importance of group-fit in new director selection

Natalie Elms, Gavin Nicholson, Amedeo Pugliese

Director selection is an important yet under-researched topic. The purpose of this paper is to contribute to extant literature by gaining a greater understanding into how and why…

International market development: The small and medium sized firm’s opportunity or dilemma

Bo Rundh

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the international market development process in small- and medium-sized exporting firms (SMEs) and to examine the influence of…

Doing social good on a sustainable basis: competitive advantage of social businesses

Kaushik Roy, Amit Karna

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the capabilities of social entrepreneurship (SE) firms and how they achieve competitive advantage while engaging in social value…