Human activities are having an increasingly negative impact on the environment at all scales. This situation creates an urgent need to shift human activities toward sustainable development at all levels-company, sector, country, region and global. However, national efforts to improve...

Purpose Existing frameworks for startup development often focus on isolated factors-business models, innovation, or operations-without providing a holistic approach to scalability. This study introduces the Scaling Wheel Framework, designed to fill this gap by evaluating startups across five...

The SearchEngine is an open source project providing an integrated framework for diverse matching activities, especially the linkage of large scale firm data by fuzzy criteria like company names and addresses. At its core, it utilizes an efficient candidate retrieval mechanism implementing a...

Though mergers and acquisitions comprise a significant share of aggregate economic activity in the US, researchers disagree on the effect and importance of M&A determinants. Such disagreement stems from adherence to disparate theoretical models that preclude the use of significant explanatory...