Showing papers in "European Management Journal in 2009"

TL;DR: In this article, two outcome-based defence contracts are studied in the attempt to better understand the provision of services in maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) environment that is contracted on the outcome of the equipment, rather than provision of equipment.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present results from an empirical study into the attitudes and behaviours of 103 UK SME owner/managers in response to buyer pressure to demonstrate CSR activities.

TL;DR: In this paper, a comparative case study approach is used to investigate how two small Italian food producers manage their knowledge, one focused on marketing and the other on the technology knowledge domain.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors provide a set of parameters that relate the broad variety of scientific papers in this field of research to a common framework, and apply this framework to multiple case studies, a preliminary typology of new business concepts emerges.

TL;DR: In this article, the influence of personal traits (represented by trait EI or emotional self-efficacy) and contextual factors (represented as perceived organizational support) on entrepreneurial behavior was investigated.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors compared the efficiency of hotel chains in the French market with predominantly franchised and company-owned chains, and found that plural form chains have a significantly higher average efficiency score than predominantly owned chains.

TL;DR: A developmental approach to performance measurement was adopted, which resulted in extended set of new and well-founded measures, it has enhanced employees’ beliefs in the PMS and their commitment to performance improvement, and it has created organizational learning concerning performance measurement.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explored which internationalisation modes Born Globals use in their initial and continued internationalisation, based on longitudinal data from eight biotechnology Born GlobALS, and divided them into two groups:

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigate whether the strategic priorities of an organization are associated with the use and effectiveness of specific performance measures and find no support for the claim that aligning the performance measurement system to the strategic priority of the firm positively affects performance.

TL;DR: In this article, a case-based approach using the principles of grounded theory was used for studying the risks of offshore IT outsourcing relationships, and three broad categories of service provider risks emerged, namely, macroeconomic, relationship specific and project specific.

TL;DR: This article investigated how changes in firm degree of internationalization are associated with the configuration of top management teams (TMT) based on a dataset of 41 large European firms in the banking and insurance industry, including detailed career profiles of the 264 executives serving on the TMTs of these firms at year-end 2002.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors highlight how key foreign subsidiary managers interpret and integrate individual, socio-political, organizational as well as some home and host country factors into distinct subsidiary initiatives, which they then try to accomplish in negotiations with the headquarters.

TL;DR: In this paper, a power and dependence perspective on outsourcing is presented in four case studies involving the maintenance of capital assets, where both the buyer and supplier sides of the dyad are examined.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present the applications and limits of public marketing within this framework for the four classical marketing instruments (product development/improvement, price, promotion and place) to show that public marketing (i.e., the application of marketing concepts and tools to public administration) is already a reality in a wide variety of countries.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss innovation trauma in the context of Sun Ray, the thin-client computing innovation that came out of Sun Labs at Sun Microsystems, and suggest that failure may often lead to innovation trauma, an inability to commit to new innovations due to severe disappointment from previous innovation failures.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors extend this stream of literature by considering the effect of organizational competencies, such as improving team cohesiveness and providing slack time to foster creativity, in the fast moving consumer goods industry.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyzed the operations of MNEs from four leading emerging economies (Brazil, Russia, India and China) during 2000-2007 and developed insights into their dispersion pattern across five industry sectors in six geographical regions.

TL;DR: In this paper, the relative performance of emerging market (EM) multinational enterprises (MNEs) based on their geographic orientation is analyzed, showing that firms adopt three geographic orientations (local, regional, and global) and test their framework with the market penetration strategies (sales) of 701 MNEs from 28 EM during 2000-2006.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors draw together theories from organisational and neo-institutional literatures to address the evolution of supply chain contracts and reveal how parties can renegotiate towards a more equitable and efficient supply chain contract.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyzed the international scale and scope of European multinational enterprises (MNEs) by using five widely used multinationality measures and the corresponding five measures for intra-regional activities and found that European MNEs focus on their home region market rather than the global market.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyzed the relationship between innovation at firm and industry level, and the global vs regional strategy of multinational enterprises (MNEs) and found that technological assets affect a firm's ability to overcome the liability of (regional) foreignness.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors focus on the management of external knowledge as a central mechanism when organizations face threats from turbulent environments based on absorptive capacity (ACAP) theory and emphasize ACAP's separation into potential and realized knowledge and suggest that each should be associated with three-dimensional stocks and distinguish between managing knowledge stocks and knowledge flows.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigate how firm and country combinations affect international SME performance and explore the relationships among SME R&D investment, home region orientation and financial performance.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine how firms choose among alternative modes of development in the context of horizontal growth and suggest that mergers and acquisitions (M&As) as well as alliances formation are influenced by both internal and external factors.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the perceptions of national elites and the public regarding IPR as well as IPR related pressures facing these actors, their negotiation with other actors and their responses.

TL;DR: In this article, a cross-sectional study determined that home market size and home regional market concentrations heavily influence emergent regionalisation patterns and their implications on theory-building within the sphere of the regionalisation-globalisation debate are explored.

TL;DR: The System of Professions by A. Abbott as discussed by the authors is a sociological approach to the concepts of profession and professionalization that helps achieve better understanding of work structuring and as a consequence can be useful to address issues such as human resources management, organizational control or even the management of information systems.

TL;DR: In this article, a case study of the US defense industry is used to show that a distinction has to be made between change strategies and strategies aiming at managing the risk created by these change strategies (maintaining the stability and maintaining the openness).

TL;DR: In this article, the authors evaluate the new regulatory environment and examine some of the managerial issues posed by the strengthening stance of the European competition authorities towards cartels. But they do not discuss the impact of the new guidelines on leniency and fines.

TL;DR: In this paper, the degree of regionalization of UK exporters was investigated based on an original set of primary data of 356 exporters and compared with the UK national trade flows as well as with the geographic spread of the UK, European and the world's largest MNEs.