... is the corresponding author and can be contacted at: a.alonso@ecu.edu.au 27 12 2015 25 01 2016 05 04 2016 © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2016 Emerald Group Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Europe Resources SWOT analysis Craft brewing Micro and small firms...

... such as strategic reference point or indices that develop, enhance and reflect their firm's identity. Otherwise the organizational performance will be distorted and turn out to be uncompetitive. This shows the link within and between strategic reference point theory, indices and firm's identity. Europe...

.... In other words, we seek to understand how Europe's long established network carriers (so called “legacy” airlines) design their lobbying capabilities to influence European and national institutions and related agents during the 2001‐2005 timeframe. We argue that a lobbying capability is a high level...

... the entire sample of JV partners (n=117) for the analysis of the results and the sub‐sample multiple partners (n=83) operating in the same JV. Joint ventures Partnership Business formation Europe Prior research has extensively studied what might motivate firms to engage in JVs...

... their countries. Mostafa Jafari and Peyman Akhavan can be contacted at: mostafajafari2006@yahoo.com; peyman_akv@yahoo.com, akhavan@iust.ac.ir © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2007 Knowledge management Change management Learning Knowledge economy Europe If there is one constant...

... Europe The first of what subsequently became an unbroken string of annual macromarketing seminars was held in Boulder, Colorado in August of 1976. The driving force behind this meeting was Dr Charles Slater and many of those attending the first few seminars were Dr Slater's students and colleagues...

... Europe One of the major issues to be addressed in any industrial sector that is undergoing rapid changes such as telecommunications is that of devising a strategic typology that can help to impose some order upon seemingly unrelated events. This is particularly the case when, due to limited...

...Sicco Santema; Marijke Hoekert; Jeroen van de Rijt; Aswin van Oijen Purpose This article aims to focus on strategy disclosure in annual reports across Europe and to try to establish whether national culture and national corporate governance features have an influence on the extent to which...

... policy Disadvantaged groups Europe Welfare from below? Purpose – To provide a constructive critique of the present system of welfare benefits in Europe and present options for reform. Design/methodology/approach – Analyses existing practices of and attitudes towards welfare provision...

...Paul Kingsnorth © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2005 --> Politics Political science Non-governmental organizations Laws and legislation United Kingdom Europe Could it happen here? Charles Secrett thinks it could. Secrett, director of Friends of the Earth for ten years...

...Colin Turner Purpose The paper seeks to examine the evolving international strategies of Europe's incumbent telecommunications operators. The aim is to develop a typology of how these different operators have sought to position themselves within an internationalising marketplace. Design...

... recent years. Originality/value Bearing in mind the next adoption in Europe of International Financial Reporting Standards issued by the IASB, the results of the paper give a clue about the type of European multinationals which tend to adopt non‐local GAAP, and which kind of internationally accepted...

.... Findings The results show that, although many mobile operators have been intent on building empires both within and outside Europe, almost all of these operators have been forced to curtail their ambitions. As a consequence, consolidation has not occurred as expected. Originality/value It was widely...

... Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2004 Strategic management Organizational change Management theory Automotive industry Business environment Europe To give a name to a thing is gratifying … but it is also dangerous: The danger consists in one's becoming convinced that all is taken care...

...– a world of wonderment and a book (or rather several books), combining“Flemish stolidity” with the flamboyant “playing French fire”: © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2004 --> Literature Literary criticism National cultures Europe Proust and Ruskin Notes CW33: 128...

...David Heathcoat-Amory © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2004 --> Constitutional law Europe Democracy The other Europe Abstract This article introduces the minority report by a group of parliamentary delegates to the convention on the future of Europe. Its authors...

...Judith Ryser © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2004 --> Democracy Europe Switzerland United Kingdom Judith Ryser CityScope Europe, London, UK Abstract One of the problems underlying European integration is the apparent incompatibility between widening...

... Publishing Limited 2004 Europe European Union Exports Export markets Market entry Marketing strategy Never before in recorded history have business firms throughout Europe, large and small, been so involved in, and affected by, the international marketplace. As noted by Cateora...

...Narindar Saroop © MCB UP Limited 2003 --> Europe Development International politics Narindar Saroop CBE, was the first Conservative Parliamentary candidate from an Asian background in the twentieth century UK. He is Founder-Chairman of the Durbar Club and also founded...

...Judith Ryser Note 1 ESRC "One Europe or Several" Programme, Web site: www.one-europe.ac.uk Palgrave publications One Europe or Several? Series, available at: www.palgrave.com Reference Eco, U. (2002), Five Moral Pieces, Vintage, London. Considering the UK's...