We establish a comprehensive political connection index based on manually collected
personal profiles of top firm managers or board members to examine the contribution of …

Remaining competitive and profitable in addition to meet environmental and social
demands, mandated by regulation and valued by the stakeholders, is a current challenge for …

Real options theory is applied widely to the study of MNEs' international expansions. This
stream of research views the MNE as a network that incorporates a portfolio of options to …

The expanding research on team emergent states explains many facets of team dynamics in
an entrepreneurial context. However, the interactions between team emergent states are still …

Today, firms are evaluated not only based on their profitability, but also based on a number
of non-financial metrics. Many of these measures fall under the umbrella of corporate social …

Richard Rumelt shook the strategy field with his variance decomposition study by
concluding that industry and corporate effects on performance were surprisingly small. At the …

Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to provide an analysis of factors that impact global
competitiveness for firms in the Fortune Global 500. Design/methodology/approach–The …

Industry structures and the availability and utilization of internal corporate resources are two
key determinants of profit persistence. The theories behind industrial organization and the …

To what extent a firm's resources (firm effect) and the structure of the sector (industry effect)
are sources of a firm's competitiveness has been debated for years in strategic …

Sustainability has been the subject of an intense debate in the academic literature. The
concern on sustainability is associated with the way managers run companies, as well as …