A business ecosystem consists of a hub-firm (ecosystem leader) and a community of actor-firms. Building on the extended resource-based view and business ecosystem literature, this article explains the factors contributing to an actor-firm’s service innovation. To test our framework, we...

This paper examines the effect of a company's pension contributions on its dividend and investment policies. Using a sample of all FTSE350 UK listed firms with at least one defined benefit pension scheme from 2001 to 2004, we find a strong and negative relation between pension contributions and...

This paper examines the impact of a company's pension contributions on its dividend and investment policies. The effects of shocks to cash flows on these corporate expenditures are identified by changes to pension funding regulations. Using a sample of DB pension schemes in FTSE350 UK listed...

This paper examines the basis of the annual levies paid to the UK's Pension Protection Fund by the Universities Superannuation Scheme, a multi-employer scheme covering approximately 380 universities and related institutions. The paper compares the payments between the two alternative...