Healthcare is turning a big business. A better understanding of the factors affecting healthcare expenditure (HCE) can assist expenditure control. This study uses fuzzy set/Qualitative Comparative Analysis (fsQCA) to explore the sufficient conditions for the outcome, HCE. FsQCA provides causal...

This special issue discusses the Spirit of Strategy (S.O.S): The New S.O.S for Competitive Business. The special issue blends contextual information and cognitive knowledge from Global Innovation and Knowledge Academy (GIKA) contributions to improve decisions, tasks, performance, and outcome...

This study empirically investigates six variables and their combinations that may affect revenues of Taiwan's biotechnology industry. Examine variables include annual government investment, annual private investment, number of national biotechnology incubator yearly, number of manufacturers that...

This study intends to establish configural theory for ICT development by using fuzzy set/Qualitative Comparative Analysis (fsQCA) and to contrast the results with those from multivariate regression analysis (MRA). The fsQCA results support three propositions: the highly-developed countries, the...

Information and communication technology (ICT) attracts more and more attention as the diffusion of Internet grows rapidly. This study intends to classify ICT developments by using a different approach: a clustering technique to classify the economies with only two essential variables, namely...

This paper summarizes the best papers of the Global Innovation and Knowledge Academy (GIKA) conference, which took place in July 2012 in Valencia, Spain. The Journal of Business Research hereby publishes a special issue entitled Innovation and entrepreneurship in knowledge industries. This...

This paper summarizes the best papers of the Global Innovation and Knowledge Academy (GIKA) conference, which took place in July 2013 in Valencia, Spain. The Journal of Business Research has published a special issue entitled “Developmental management: Theories, methods, and applications in...

Quantile regression is popular because it provides more information as well as comprehensive interpretations. To improve forecasting performance, this study proposes a new quantile information criterion (NQIC), on the basis of the coefficient of variation, and expects the NQIC to reflect whether...

Now that we live in a world full of cutting-edge breakthroughs, technology management seems to be particularly essential. The Journal of Business Research has published a special issue entitled "Essential Research in Technology Management." This special issue includes 11 papers. Six of them are...

Entrepreneurs are important to economic development. Business model design is critical to assist entrepreneurs. This study proposes a two-tier business model for entrepreneurs, consisting of a conceptual model and a financial model. The conceptual model describes the idea of a new business which...