... ; Wernerfelt, 1984); this theoretical foundation is further complemented by a strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats (SWOT) analysis to examine the following research questions: RQ1. What are participants’ main perceived resources as they relate to their firm? Europe Resources...

... services by providing a more accurate and truthful information about value. Europe Strategic group identity Indices Strategic reference point Banking industry Financial performance In fact, the strategic reference point theory has its underlying roots in several major theoretical...

... on management choices for lobbying design in the European airline industry. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2011 Europe Lobbying Strategic choices Corporate ownership Airlines Government policy The creation and preservation of competitive advantage is a core challenge for all...

.... It also provides new guidelines to practitioners and scholars alike by examining various combinations of collaborative motives and how they are coupled across partners in alliance dyads. Joint ventures Partnership Business formation Europe Prior research has extensively studied what might...

... their countries. Knowledge management Change management Learning Knowledge economy Europe Attempts to impose order on what Weick and Quinn (1999) call “the sheer sprawl of the change management literature” have led to attempts at classification of change as either “discontinuous and episodic...

... Publishing Limited 2006 Macro marketing 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...

... Europe Table I Mobile network presence in countries and territories, 31 December 2004 Let us now return to Turner's typology. Since we have rejected Deutsche Telekom as conforming to the “globalist” category [12] , we must re‐assign it. At the end of 2004, it was present in six...

... Politikanalyse, Frankfurt/Main, GermanyProfessor of Sociology at J.W. Goethe-University Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany. He is the author (with Arno Pilgrim) of Welfare Policy from Below: Struggles against Social Exclusion in Europe (Ashgate, 2003). E-mail: steinert@soz.uni-frankfurt.de...

...Paul Kingsnorth © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2005 --> Politics Political science Non-governmental organizations Laws and legislation United Kingdom Europe Beyond NGOs: an integrated approach to social justice Purpose – To examine and publicise a new...

...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...

...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...

.... 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...

... 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...

... stalls © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2004 --> Literature Literary criticism National cultures Europe Proust and Ruskin Perspectives on Amiens and its cathedral Keywords: Literature, Literary criticism, National cultures, Europe John Ruskin and Marcel...

... 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 of and that once named the phenomenon has also been explained (Levi, 1989). The concept has increasingly been overworked, debased and almost done...

...David Heathcoat-Amory There is another way: the Europe of Democracies Aware of the need to strengthen democracy and respect for the rule of law and human rights in Europe. Observing the growing gap between the EU institutions and the people of Europe and the loss of popular...

... and Sarathy, 2000, p. 330). © Emerald Group 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...

...Judith Ryser Objectors claimed that indirect elections of the EU’s top executives would increase both political party lines and national allegiance, although Simon Hix’s study on “How MEPs vote” (part of the ESRC research on “One Europe or several” (Ryser, 2003), shows that party allegiance has...

...Narindar Saroop Do not all those who support, passionately or otherwise, the concept of a United Europe, feel that it would be wise to take stock from time to time, and so rethink and adapt? Nobody would quarrel with the initial seed of the Iron and Steel Community; very few would have...

...Judith Ryser © MCB UP Limited 2003 --> Political sociology Europe Economics research Judith Ryser Judith Ryser is the Director of CityScope Europe, London, UK. Keywords: Political sociology, Europe, Economics research Abstract Judith Ryser reflects...