Purpose - This paper presents findings from an SME case study situated in the computer games industry, the youngest and fastest growing of the new digital industries. The study examines changing people management practices as the case company undergoes industry-typical strategic change to embark...

The concept of ?strategic dalliances?? defined as non-committal relationships that companies can ?dip in and out of,? or dally with, while simultaneously maintaining longer-term strategic partnerships with other firms and suppliers ? has emerged as a promising strategy by which organizations can...

For family firms, alliances represent a form of heightened entrepreneurial risk-taking. However, a dearth of research exists on the implications of forms of alliance governance for family firms. In a study of 939 non-equity alliances of family and non-family firms, we analyse how contracts and...

The research endeavors to determine the correlation between the human capital of lead investors and their funding performance within equity crowdfunding syndicates, where individual investors invest along with professional investors. We posit that the multi-faceted human capital of lead...