Multinational companies (MNCs) vary in both their use of global strategy and in the systems of corporate governance in which they operate. In this paper, we develop a theoretical framework and set of propositions to show that differences in national corporate governance systems will influence...

Drawing from advances in Organisation Studies and recent debates within Economic Sociology and the Sociology of Financial Markets, this paper proposes a theoretical framework that characterises the mutual adaptation between formal routines, rules and actual performances as iterative cycles of...

Despite its importance as a potential source of variation within industries, little is currently known about the antecedents of new business ideas in large, established firms. While a number of organization and management literatures address, tangentially, issues pertaining to this topic, none...

Recently there has been much debate about the usefulness of strategic management education and implicitly about strategy tools and frameworks. Yet, this debate is taking place in the absence of detailed knowledge about how, or indeed, whether, managers use the theoretical tools that they learn....

In spite of the continued importance of an innovation's attributes to research methodologies, and the increasing tendency toward multidimensional conceptualizations, the lack of a theoretically derived and empirically developed classification of innovations, conceived in terms of these perceived...

This paper aims to develop further the common distinction that is made between rigour and relevance in management research. The debates around this issue have also been closely linked with the critique of Business Schools and in particular the nature of both their students and their teaching. A...

This paper exploits a quasi-experimental setting to estimate the impact that a multi-dimensional group incentive scheme had on branch performance in a large distribution firm. The scheme, which is based on the Balanced Scorecard, was implemented in all branches in one division, but not in...

Small business enterprises (SMEs) from emerging economies have become active participants in international markets. Seeking to capitalize on their unique skills and capabilities and achieve rapid growth and diversify the sources of their revenue streams, SMEs have used their social capital to...

We study the productivity of US owned plants in the UK. Using a new dataset that identifes foreign and domestic MNEs, we find that UK MNEs are less productive than US affliates, but as productive as non US foreign affliates. We investigate the source of the US and MNE advantage. We find evidence...