Academic Publishing
Samantha J. Rayner
This chapter on academic publishing covers the origins of the field; the impact of the two major drivers of change—the printing press and the Internet—on the spread of knowledge; Open ...
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Accounting for Human Capital and Organizational Effectiveness
Robin Kramar, Vijaya Murthy, and James Guthrie
This article discusses how the shift to a knowledge-based economy has propelled firms' human capital (HC) and associated intellectual resources to center stage. It notes that while ...
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After the Collapse: A Behavioral Theory of Reputation Repair
Mooweon Rhee and Tohyun Kim
This article reports a behavioural theory of reputation repair with a focus on the behavioural mechanisms underlying an organisation's response to a reputation-damaging event. The ...
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An Age of Corporate Governance Failure?: Financialization and its Limits
Geoffrey Wood and Douglas Michael Wright
The financial crisis of 2008 has prompted some people to ask basic questions about the extent to which large-scale corporate governance failures have underestimated the basis of the global ...
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Agricultural Co-operatives: a struggle for identity
Samira Nuhanovic-Ribic, Ermanno C. Tortia, and Vladislav Valentinov
Over the last decades, agricultural co-operatives grew substantially in most developed and developing countries, often reaching dominant market positions. We inquire into the economic ...
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Agricultural Co-operatives in China
Li Zhao
Co-operatives have played a significant role in the agricultural sector in China, particularly since the promulgation of a first national co-operative law in 2007. This chapter offers an ...
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Airport Luxury Retail
Debbie Pinder and Joanne Roberts
The evolution of luxury retailing in the airport has followed the growth in air travel resulting from globalisation, the privatisation, and the deregulation of air transport and the rise of ...
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Aligning Human Capital with Organizational Needs
David P. Lepak, Riki Takeuchi, and Juani Swart
This article focuses on the alignment between human capital (HC) and organizational needs. It focuses on the question of how alignment between HC and organizational strategy influences ...
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Alliances and Joint Ventures: The Role Of Partner Selection From An Embeddedness Perspective
Tina Dacin, Douglas Reid, and Peter Smith Ring
This article defines collaborations between firms that involve the creation of a separate, autonomous, and legally recognized firm — a ‘newco’ — as a joint venture. Joint ventures usually, ...
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Analysing the Environment
Robert Pitkethly
This article considers the analysis of the firm's strategic environment. Its objectives are to examine the concept of the environment in the context of strategic management, the role of the ...
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Analyzing Internal and Competitor Competences: Resources, Capabilities, and Management Processes
Ron Sanchez
This article aims to explain the concept of organizational competences and its central role in contemporary strategic thinking about how a firm creates competitive advantages, to clarify ...
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Annuity Markets
James M. Poterba
This article summarizes the current operation of annuity markets and the potential role of these markets in providing retirement security. It is divided into six sections. The first ...
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Approaches to Skills in the Asian Developmental States
Johnny Sung and Arwen Raddon
The developmental state model was proposed in the early 1990s as a better means of understanding the mechanisms underlying the rapid growth of the Asian Tiger economies, when compared to ...
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Approaching Business and the Environment with Complexity Theory
David Levy and Benyamin Lichtenstein
This article explores the contribution of complexity theory to the understanding of business and the natural environment (B&NE), concentrating on climate change. It uses the term ...
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Auditing and Corporate Governance
Andrea Mennicken and Michael Power
This chapter explores the role of auditors in systems of corporate governance. The discussion refers to international comparisons, where the changing regulatory, methodological, and ...
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Authorship
Simone Murray
The culturally esteemed concept of the ‘Author’ is the product of the Anglophone world and emerged simultaneously with copyright and Romanticism from the early eighteenth century. Digital ...
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Avoiding Collaboration Stalemates in Technology Commercialization
Phillip H. Kim, Manuel F. Ramírez, and Reddi Kotha
This chapter provides an overview of the technology commercialization process that occurs in research universities. With the assistance of technology transfer offices, inventors and ...
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Beyond Convergence and Divergence: Explaining Variations in Organizational Practices and Forms
Chris Smith
This article outlines different approaches to the analysis of contemporary capitalism and considers what role they allocate to the business organization. Three distinct positions are ...
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Beyond the Brave New World: Business for Sustainability
John R. Ehrenfeld
This article concentrates on creating sustainability that is already becoming central to business strategy formation and implementation. It is believed that business will be shaped by a ...
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Big Business
Youssef Cassis
Big business has been at the heart of business history from its very beginnings, whether as a mere literary genre; or, more seriously in the last half century, as an academic discipline. ...
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