COVID-19 accelerated change within the UK retail market. It encouraged the growth of online shopping, providing the necessary demand for grocers to invest in their operations, and transformed the economics of their businesses. As innovative new business models emerged, some existing retailers...

The electric industry is expected to be the foundation for a decades-long transition to an economy-wide decarbonized energy system. Because this energy transition will entail replacing or decarbonizing nearly all of today's fossil generation and doubling the size of the electric system, it...

This chapter applies the five drivers of productivity framework to regional microdata for Egypt and extends it by introducing an index of industrial clusters as an explanatory factor of the productivity performance of local private sector firms. Applying structural equation models, the...

In recent times, the operating landscape of Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) environment can be described as constantly changing. Their performance is more dependent on the managers' ability to implement effective control/management practices suitable for their context and operating...

We use the institutional work approach to examine how business assistance programme (BAP) workers approach male-centric business contexts. Analyzing interviews in the Czech Republic, a transitional economy, and in the United States, an advanced market economy, we ask: does the institutional work...

Purpose We examine how authorities' use of fair decision-making procedures and power benevolently shape workers' impressions of them as competent and warm, which serve as a mechanism whereby authorities' behaviors shape workers' emotional responses. We investigate how the role of these...

We review the two best-known conceptualizations of cultural intelligence (CQ) and the validity of their corresponding measures to address the major issues that challenge valid CQ measurement: the perplexing structure of the construct, equivocal item content, incongruity between conceptualization...

Founded in 1945, Detroit entrepreneur Joe Von Battle was able to turn a handful of records and raw opportunity into a blues music empire, with sales that at one point topped two and a half million in today’s dollars. Later Detroit music luminaries such as Berry Gordy frequented the shop....