Showing papers in "European Management Journal in 2008"

TL;DR: The authors argue that value is fundamentally derived and determined in use -the integration and application of resources in a specific context, rather than in exchange, embedded in firm output and captured by price.

TL;DR: In this paper, a multi-step measurement model is developed that allows managers to evaluate their company-specific business case for CSR, and a case example illustrates the use of the model in practice.

TL;DR: The authors investigated the human capital profile of new appointees to corporate boards and found that women are significantly more likely to bring international diversity to their boards and to possess an MBA degree than men.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore the most salient reasons for the success and failure of community of practice (COP) networks and identify 10 "commandments" that lead to successful development and sharing of best practices.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors follow a comparative case approach of two major German social networking sites (StayFriends and XING) in order to answer the question of how social networks create value for their users and how they can capture it by transferring Anderson's concept of the long tail to internet-based social networks.

TL;DR: In this paper, an emerging marketing management logic proposes a new perspective on service activities, which previously have been subject to a biased goods-dominant logic, according to which customers always are co-producers of services and co-creators of value, not simple marketing targets, because they mobilize knowledge and other resources in the service process that affect the success of a value proposition.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a practical framework that managers can use to identify suitable outsourcing strategies for their processes, based on both organizational capability and opportunism considerations, and demonstrate real case examples from organisations that participated in the research.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the interrelationships between brain circulation or "triangular human talent flow", ethnic diasporas (specifically, the Chinese and Indian diaspora), and a country's international competitiveness.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine the role of social networks in the internationalization processes of new ventures in contexts characterized by different levels of institutional development, and develop a theoretical model which specifies the rationale entrepreneurs use to draw on their social networks and drive internationalization, and enumerates institutional conditions in which different types of network ties tend to be most prominent and valuable.

TL;DR: In this article, the characteristics of development activities undertaken by companies individually and jointly via public-private, private-non-profit and tripartite partnerships are analyzed using multinationals originating from the Netherlands as empirical setting.

TL;DR: A brief overview of services science and innovation can be found in this article, where the authors argue that sustainable growth is based on identifying, supporting and nurturing meaningful service exchanges that exploit, develop and embody value added knowledge transfer within and across industry.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the role of cross-cultural competence in moderating entrepreneurial "opportunity" competencies and entrepreneurial self-efficacy and the overall effectiveness of international opportunity identification.

TL;DR: Johanson et al. as mentioned in this paper reviewed the network approach on internationalisation in light of the social network perspective and recently published empirical findings on the internationalisation of International New Ventures (INVs).

TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyzed the relationships between board attributes, board working processes and board role performance through intermediate relationships, and found that the relevance of different board processes for explaining board role role performance.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore how the empirical reality of a regional concentration of assets and sales imposes a regional solution, rather than the transnational solution, for multinational enterprise (MNE) strategy and structure.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors describe and explain differences in nationality diversity within executive boards of European Multinational Corporations (EMC) and conclude that these differences result from unique differences in governance regimes within individual countries, and to a lesser extend the result of company characteristics.

TL;DR: In this article, a pilot study of Corporate Responsibility (CR) within the procurement processes of nine large organizations, with a predominant focus on utilities and service providers, was conducted to explore some of the key issues that need to be tackled if CR is to be more effectively integrated into supply and procurement strategies.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors use a multiparadigmatic approach to cooperation theory to argue why self-commitment as a coordination mechanism is particularly relevant in the context of cooperative internationalization.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors report the findings from a study on nine knowledge process outsourcing (KPO) vendors working in the financial services industry and delineate financial business processes along a low to high-end continuum.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the market entry and entry mode choice of eight small and medium-sized Finnish software firms in the Japanese market and found that despite the psychic distance between Finland and Japan, most of the firms entered Japan at a very early stage of their internationalization process by using direct entry modes.

TL;DR: In this article, it is argued that bridging social capital derived through non-redundant ties with dissimilar actors could facilitate strategic renewal, which is a useful way of holistically conceptualizing the phenomenon as a manifestation of strategic renewal.

TL;DR: In this article, an empirical survey was carried out that examined the state of the art of diversity management in Germany and found that a notable increase in the dissemination of Diversity Management in corporate practice can be observed in Germany in recent years.

TL;DR: In this paper, a coevolutionary approach that brings concepts from other fields of organisational theory to explain the strategic development of International New Venture (INV) is presented.

TL;DR: For a long time, the telecom equipment industry has been at the forefront of outsourcing and relocating production operations to contract manufacturing firms located in Asia and Eastern Europe as mentioned in this paper, where the majority of the operations are located in Eastern Europe.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors provided data involving the internationalization strategies of high performing Canadian small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) with a focus on issues associated with the management of collaborative ventures.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that the common purchasing and supply management practice of evaluating supplier performance may be inappropriate in situations of supply partnerships, as it focuses on evaluating the performance of the supplier rather than the supply relationship.

TL;DR: In this article, a thorough analysis of the literature shows that strategic motives affect licensing decisions in addition to monetary considerations, and companies have to develop integrated strategies that facilitate "keep-and-sell" approaches to technology exploitation.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used the theory of performance relative to aspiration levels to explain why and how small firms are triggered to engage in internationalization despite not reaching maturity in their home market.

TL;DR: 17 HRM practices that should be included in the agendas of IT projects if they are to achieve appropriate and committed use of newly introduced IT by the targeted employees are specified.