... orientation Learning orientation Reward systems Competitive advantages Business performance Adverse economic conditions are affecting firms and their employees’ lives around the world. Research into firms’ reward systems (RSs) needs to be developed as they guide employees’ behavior and thus help...

... and innovation is not equivalent to commercialisation, which implies the long-term ability to deliver new knowledge, concepts and products to the market. The feedback loop from innovation performance to business performance is hence important according to Löfsten (2014) . While we acknowledge the start-up...

... (Robbins and Pearce, 1992). © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2013 Recession Turnarounds Business performance Business turnaround Recovery strategies Financial decline The economic crisis that began in 2008 has resulted in recessionary conditions across many countries...

...Helen E. Salavou Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate empirically whether a hybrid, compared with other forms of competitive advantage, contributes to better business performance. Design/methodology/approach Based on 105 food manufacturing firms in Greece, a European Union (EU...

...., 2009a, b). Thorsten Roser can be contacted at: t.roser@lse.ac.uk © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2013 Decision support systems Business performance Value chain Managing co‐creation Decision support framework Contrasting case studies Businesses in today's economy have...

... analysis Business performance Business development Ideas generation Economic development depends on innovation, the discovery and exploitation of new types of products and services, new processes and new types of business and market organization. New ideas and innovation generally do not arise...

... Managers Competitive strategy Business performance Management skills South Africa Management, one of the earliest professions, has been practised since time immemorial, as is evident from records of ancient civilizations. The earliest among these include, amongst others, business, legal...

... interactions of mutual relationship properties in dyadic contexts, instead of only matching one‐to‐one key informants in symmetric interactions. Trust Marketing Business performance Dyadic relationship research has been a topic on the research agenda for a long time (Ford, 1980 ; Håkansson, 1982...