When can corporate social responsibility become a reliable strategic asset? There is a
scarcity of both theoretical arguments and empirical evidence investigating the trade-off …

Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to explore reputational risk that are borne in the
supply chain and contribute to this contemporary but growing research stream …

A longstanding objective of managers is to reduce risk to their businesses. The conventional
strategy for risk reduction is diversification; however, evidence for the effectiveness of …

Purpose The main purpose of this paper is to investigate the implementation of hoshin kanri
as a novel alternative system to Balanced Scorecard (BSC) for deploying Corporate Social …

As business model (BM) innovation has become one of management's top priorities,
anecdotal evidence suggests that firms do not have one single BM but run multiple BMs in …

This longitudinal study of large European firms (1993–2007) offers a conceptual model that
explains how two key aspects of the macro-competitive environment, macroeconomic …

Corporate diversification remains a relevant strategy in the contemporary business
environment. However, despite a myriad of studies on firm diversification, mixed findings …

This thesis comprises three logically connected studies that address inconclusive and
controversial topics about diversification, including product and international diversification …