... the immediate family business context, influencing broader research domains such as entrepreneurship and strategic management. Accordingly, our study offers two key contributions. First, our study contributes to SEW and UET theory by examining the previously unexplored phenomenon of how family business...

... for tiding competitive crises. For this study, we adopt Teece's (2007) approach to DCs. Dynamic refers to the capacity of a firm to renew its existing competencies to handle a changing environment. Capabilities refer to strategic management's vital role in integrating, adapting...

... – The results corroborate certain previously presented findings and bring forth new conclusions particularly concerning the place of the leader, the existence of thresholds and the relative homogeneity of trajectories. Entrepreneurs Growth France SME Strategic management The political powers...

... Performance Rasch model Strategic positioning Strategic management Strategic reference points Strategic types This study presents an empirically rigorous view of the strategic process emphasizing the role of strategists. Specifically, this paper fills a gap in the literature by including...

... be contacted at: giacomo.boesso@unipd.it © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2012 Small to medium‐sized enterprises Strategic types Innovation types Open innovation Large enterprises Performance levels Strategic management Italy A substantial body of research has investigated...

... internationalization through decentralization or partnership. Originality/value Although few studies have empirically analysed the role of environmental scanning in a particular domain, such as intellectual property strategic management, or adopted a comparative cross‐cultural design to do so, this paper...

... (such as SBS and DTi); and other significant BSP articles/reports cited in the literature. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2006 Leadership Organizational change Business planning Strategic management Career development Built on the idea of change, the roots of business...

... plans. An earlier version of this paper was presented at the 23rd Institute for Small Business Affairs Policy and Research Conference, November 1999, Leeds, UK. © MCB UP Limited 2001 Human resource planning Small‐ to medium‐sized enterprises Technology Strategic management Journal...