A Close Look At The Driving Forces Of The Sino-Foreign International Joint Ventures

The current study employs measures developed for examining Sino-American international joint ventures (IJV) driving forces in transitional economies.  This research reports some significant differences of the IJV factors existing between mature economies and transitional economies. This study also proposes key driving forces to inform a Sino-American IJV in the Chinese context.  In addition, the current study explores the degree to which the above factors affect Sino-American IJV establishment in the context of contemporary Chinese conditions

Exporters to countries that value CEO power will have more powerful CEOs

When in Rome, look like Caesar: legitimacy in the eyes of the customers is important, write Ryan Krause, Igor Filatotchev and Garry Bruto

Management Buyouts and Small Business Performance: An Exploratory Examination and Research Agenda

Management buyout activity is increasingly shifting from large firms to small firms. However, to date, little is known about how such activities impact the performance of small firms. This research has identified a sample of small firms that have undergone a management buyout and found that, relative to other firms in their respective industries, these small buyout firms experienced performance gains similar to those experienced in buyouts of larger firms. Suggestions for extending this area of research are made

State control can result in good performance for firms

State firms are now hybrid organisations, say Ciprian Stan, David Ahlstrom, Mike W. Peng, Kehan Xu and Garry D. Bruto

Market Orientation, Growth Strategy, and Firm Performance: The Moderating Effects of External Connections

This study examines the mediating effect of growth strategy (including market and product expansion strategies) on the linkage of market orientation (MO) to firm performance and the moderating effects of a firm's external connections (including political and business ties) on the relationship between MO and growth strategy. It finds that both market and product expansion strategies are key conduits through which MO improves firm performance. In addition, the relationship between MO and market expansion strategy is positively moderated by political ties but negatively moderated by business ties, while the linkage of MO to product expansion strategy is moderated negatively by political ties but positively by business ties. By combining mediating and moderating effects in a framework that integrates MO, growth strategy, external connections, and firm performance, this study enriches our knowledge on the implications of MO and provides insight into factors that facilitate firm growth

Harnessing innovation for change: sustainability and poverty in developing countries

To date, a well-developed business perspective on how to promote sustainability for those in poverty is sorely lacking. For sustainability enhancing innovations in developing countries, poverty presents unique challenges. In this paper, we argue that if sustainability enhancing innovations introduced in developing countries are to stick, they need to be designed with local customers, networks, and business ecosystems in mind. We illustrate this view using case examples from mobile telephony, fuel efficient stoves, clean drinking water, and household electrification. Our paper underscores the need for today's managers to understand poverty as an integral part of the sustainability nexus and the new international business equation

Entepreneurial opportunities and poverty in sub-Saharan Africa : a review & agenda for the future

Entrepreneurship, with its focus on opportunities, is often seen as one of the cornerstones of poverty alleviation in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). However, evidence for the positive impact of entrepreneurship programs on poverty is mixed and now widely debated. Therefore, scholars have called for a better theoretical understanding of opportunities in SSA in the face of severe resource constraints that characterize the region. In this paper, we aim to shed further light on this issue and outline an agenda for future research. To this end, we first review the current literature on opportunities (discovered and created) and poverty (income-based and capabilities-based). We next employ four case examples of poor entrepreneurs in SSA that challenge assumptions from Western entrepreneurship theories and illustrate what could be fruitful avenues for future research on entrepreneurial opportunities and poverty in SSA

Strategic management of technology and innovation

xxii, 388 p. ; 24 cm