`Scientific management` is the label Frederick Taylor attached to the system of shop-floor management devised by him. In this article we present our discovery of very different `scientific` management principles that, roughly concurrently with Taylorism, were developed by German...

African Floodplains in semi-arid areas are important for local livelihoods but are under pressure and contested. Case studies from Mali, Cameroon, Tanzania, Zambia and Botswana present the change in the management of common pool resources in these wetlands and provide a comparative...

Front cover -- Enhancing Competences for Competitive Advantage -- Copyright page -- Contents -- List of contributors -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Lobbying: strategies to make a firm's competences generate value -- Introduction -- Theory -- Method -- Results -- Summary and outlook -- References...

Einführung -- Die Herausforderung ‚Diskontinuierliche Innovation’ -- Forschungsdesign und empirisches Feld -- HAUPTTEIL -- Grundlagen einer ressourcenorientierten Perspektive -- Organisation individueller Ressourcen -- Berücksichtigung von Ressourcenverbindungen -- Ein ressourcenbasiertes...

Purpose – The purpose of this study is to examine the influence of technological resources and external research partners on the export performance of Italian high-tech small and medium firms (SMEs). Methodology/approach – Drawing on the resource-based view as theoretical framework and...