Journal of Asia Business Studies: Volume 10 Issue 2

Design leaps: business model adaptation in emerging economies

Sunil Sharma, Mukund R. Dixit, Amit Karna

Firms take design leaps when they imitate an established business model developed either by another firm or in another market to create business opportunities. While recent…

Investment and collaboration: the Indian model for “best” HRM practices

Pramila Rao

The purpose of this paper is to examine human resource management (HRM) practices of the top 25 companies identified as “best” in India in 2011. This paper provides insights into…

Determinants of a successful cross-border knowledge transfer in franchise networks

Zaheer Khan

Previous research on service multinational corporations (SMNCs) has mainly focused on the entry mode decisions in foreign markets. The purpose of this paper is to examine the…

Business strategy and performance in Indonesia’s service sector

Yuliansyah Yuliansyah, Hussain G. Rammal, Elizabeth Rose

The relationship between strategic choices and performance in service firms in emerging markets has remained largely under-researched. This study aims to address this issue by…

Identifying dimensions of employer attractiveness in Indian universities: an approach towards scale development

Chetna Priyadarshini, Sireesha Mamidenna, O.B. Sayeed

As the global war of talent is prevalent across different industries, universities are also facing an acute shortage of faculty members because of massification of higher…

Impact of R&D on profitability in the pharma sector: an empirical study from India

Dinesh Jaisinghani

The purpose of the current paper is to examine the nature of profit persistence and to estimate the dynamic relationship between research and development (R&D) intensity and firm…