Purpose – To encourage top management to recognize the need for adding new value to their organizations and commit to the creation of new internal capabilities for growth via the exploration of their company's strategic frontier. Design/methodology/approach – Explains how the CEO can select...

Purpose – To clarify the relationship between corporate social responsibility (CSR) and profits. Design/methodology/approach – Explicates CSR against the background of a larger thesis (Coase) about the role of firms in a market economy. Findings – There are three different senses of CSR:...

Purpose – To provide a broad understanding of knowledge management and how to successfully implement knowledge management. Design/methodology/approach – Using a wide range of technical, business and knowledge management‐specific sources to explain the value and importance of knowledge...

Purpose – Aims to assess the potential for a broad “green” technoeconomic paradigm (TEP) to effectively achieve and sustain higher levels of welfare from economic and environmental sources in manylower income countries (LIC). A green TEP comprises a new socioeconomic system based upon a...

Purpose – To clarify the relationship between corporate social responsibility (CSR) and profits. Design/methodology/approach – Explicates CSR against the background of a larger thesis (Coase) about the role of firms in a market economy. Findings – There are three different senses of CSR:...

Purpose – Aims to assess the potential for a broad “green” technoeconomic paradigm (TEP) to effectively achieve and sustain higher levels of welfare from economic and environmental sources in manylower income countries (LIC). A green TEP comprises a new socioeconomic system based upon a...

Competition in the provision of financial services has intensified as external change (including technological innovation) has created more opportunities for service delivery and extended the range of potential competitors and forms of competition. At the same time, technological innovation and...

Perhaps the one constant in every business is the need to cope with technological change, and libraries are no exception. In fact, libraries may be one of the most affected industries – with technological change impacting not only how libraries do business, but also what services they provide...

Enterprise systems packages have long been associated with process change. However, it was assumed that most organizations would simultaneously design and implement process change while implementing the systems. A survey of 163 organizations and detailed interviews with 28 more suggests that...