Environmental Management: Testing the Win‐Win Model

The debate over the possibility of seeking competitive advantages through greener strategies versus the scarcity of such opportunities is not yet resolved. This study is an attempt to test the win-win model. The role of the variables at the core of the win-win model, such as the regulatory factors, environmental strategy and environmental innovativeness, was examined. The results validated the positive competitive and financial impact of progressive environmental strategies contingent upon the presence of favourable external and internal conditions. From purely a profitability standpoint, it is important to seek a balance between the environmental measures and market expectations. Comprehensive superiority in relative environmental performance will not necessarily lead to environmental competitive advantage.

Global strategies of US and Scandinavian R&D-intensive small- and medium-sized companies

The study analyses approaches that small and medium-sized R&D-intensive companies use in order to face up to global competition. Most literature on internationalization and international strategies is directed at large companies. But how are small- and medium-sized R&D-oriented firms coping with global competition? Do small companies behave like large corporations, when they venture abroad? Are there differencies in the strategic behaviour of US and Scandinavian small- and medium-sized companies?

Why and how do founding entrepreneurs bond with their ventures? Neural correlates of entrepreneurial and parental bonding

This paper investigates why and how founding entrepreneurs bond with their ventures. We develop and test theoretical arguments about the nature of bonding in a functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) study of 42 subjects (21 entrepreneurs and 21 parents). We find that entrepreneurs and parents show similar signs of affective bonding, that self-confidence plays a role in bonding style, and that the degree to which entrepreneurs include their ventures in the self and to which parents include their child in the self influences their ability to make critical assessments. Our findings suggest that bonding is similar for entrepreneurs and parents and that venture stimuli influence reward systems, self-regulatory functions, and mental factors that are associated with judgment.nonPeerReviewe