A creative-cognitive perspective is used in this study to explore alertness to business opportunities in order to develop a model of business opportunity recognition. It is assumed that the elements constituting this opportunity creation are entrepreneur¡¯s creative cognitive process, internal...

One of the most critical activities that the PhD. Student maybe faced is selecting supervisor for her dissertation. Most often these decisions are in the form of a selection problem from a finite number of choices. The selection is based on a set of criteria, such as professors¡¯ reputation,...

There is little doubt that the phase-in FDI is fuelling much of the rapid economic leap of China. Business leaders, government officials and academics are focusing considerable attention on the concept of the contribution of FDI inflows to the economic advancement in the host country China...

The ability to commercialize innovations is central to firm survival and success and, despite research on parts of the process, it remains somewhat obscure. We explore the literature to build an integrative model of the antecedents, mediators, and moderators of commercialization. We identify...

Although firms tend to rely on business plans and objective oriented approaches to their future, this paper presents an alternative model of strategy: the explorer¡¯s view of strategy. Saras Sarasvathy, a researcher at University of Virginia, found that serial or expert entrepreneurs operate...

This study examined the influence that supervisory behaviour and job-induced stress might have on job satisfaction and turnover intention of police personnel in Ekiti State, Nigeria. Three hundred and fifty police personnel (200 males, & 150 females) drawn from the three senatorial districts of...

Understanding the environment and the necessity of dealing with issues Arising from the pressures arising from environmental variables, regardless of the issue to gain competitive advantage, which is extremely necessary, decisions and actions will affect managers. Due to the lack of influence of...

The group identification model for features of human capital inner quality structure based on ideal solution evaluation model is built up. Based on the opinions of observer group, from the view of most beneficial to behavioral subjects according to the opinions of each observer, based on the...

From a thorough review of literature we investigate the key antecedents and mediators to commercialization of innovations. We posit that a firm¡¯s network, absorptive capacity and ambidexterity (ability to explore and exploit) each affect commercialization of Innovations. Further, we showed...

This paper examines whether raising the salaries of government tax auditors reduces their incentive to accept bribes. It evaluates an optimal tax structure and economic welfare under conditions of perfect and imperfect information in relation to conditions for bribery. The major policy...