...Lukman Raimi; Nurudeen Babatunde Bamiro Purpose This study critiques the development studies, entrepreneurship, management and strategy (DEMS) theories by examining how they converge and diverge in their conceptual frameworks and applications based on previous studies to propose a comprehensive...

... the cost of employment contracts sometimes encourage firms to flatten (6), but more generally, these interventions encourage expanding management layers (7). In environments with strong intellectual property (IP) laws, companies with more modular and knowledge-based work are more likely to flatten (8...