...Xin Huang; Shengjia Zhou; Tianheng Yao; Su Zhang; Xuanxuan Jin Purpose Against the backdrop of innovation-driven development, it is crucial to dismantle institutional barriers and optimize the business environment to stimulate enterprise innovation. This paper investigates the policy effects...

...Zhaoqiang Zhong; Zhiguang Chen Purpose This paper aims to explore the impact of business environment on high-quality economic development (HQED) and clarify the role of technological innovation and government intervention in this relationship. Design/methodology/approach Based on China’s...

... analysis (CFA) were applied to confirm the factor-item structure. The impact of explanatory variables was investigated using the structural equation modeling (SEM) based path analysis. Findings The study concludes that motivation, networking, socio-cultural, business environment, training...

... and business outcomes. These results suggest that SME managers should place greater emphasis on strengthening their organizational capability and dealing with turbulent business environments. Originality/value – Few studies have explored the drivers of technology commercialization and their effects...

.... Finally, the paper addresses calls for greater use of secondary measures of EO. Fariss‐Terry Mousa can be contacted at: mousafx@jmu.edu © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2012 Entrepreneurial orientation Founder chief executive officers Entrepreneurialism Business environment Business...

... Corporate entrepreneurship Institutional environment Entrepreneurial orientation Spain Entrepreneurialism Business environment Institutional theory proposes that organisations adopt structures, processes, programmes, policies and/or procedures because of the pressure that coexisting...

.... 16). Business ethics Confucianism Corporate social responsibility Business environment Europe United States of America Law is inherent in ethics and in how businesses operate on either side of the Atlantic. A basic difference between US/Anglo‐Saxon and continental European practice...

... the business environment. Uncertainty is the principal dimension to diagnose the environment (Daft et al., 1988 ; Duncan, 1972). It is more difficult to find agreement among authors on which environmental features to include in order to obtain that uncertainty. Environmental dynamism appears in most...

... Decision making Strategic management Corporate strategy Business environment One of the most important issues in the field of strategic management has been, and still is, to illuminate the process of strategy development in order to provide a “road map” for decision‐making that enables effective...

... ; Brouthers et al., 1998 ; Hunt, 1988). Communication Acquisitions and mergers Business environment Organizational change The rest of this paper is organized as follows. In Section 2, we review the literature and develop hypotheses. Section 3 describes our methods. Section 4 describes...

... to be found between traditional content knowledge and business skills. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2004 Business environment Change management Education Transformational leadership South Africa In the past 20 years, business education has become an important part of the young...

... for chartered engineers through professional development fall into the following five main categories (Institute of Mechanical Engineers, 1999): Skills Business environment Vocational training Entrepreneurialism Scotland At Heriot‐Watt, entrepreneurship education covers a wide range of related...