This study explores explanations for costs increases during the front-end of road projects, which includes the planning stages up until the project execution starts, through an analysis of project governance and cost-estimation practice in the Norwegian Public Road Administration. We group the...

The main aim of the paper is to identify the succession strategies (especially the ways in which they attempt to balance the strive to maintain family’s control over the company with the goal of firm’s growth) of the first generation of Polish entrepreneurs. Research survey was conducted on...

This paper investigates causalities between small businesses and the shadow economy in ten New Member States of the European Union in the years 2000–2005. The transition from a centrally planned to a market economy, with deregulation and privatization of economic activities, has yielded new...

As a result of catastrophic events, firms and other organizations are faced with input shortages and price shocks. Firms can respond to these events using a variety of “resilience” actions, or tactics. Here we provide a microeconomic foundation for analyzing a comprehensive range of these...

The chapter provides a methodology for measuring the cost-effectiveness of resilience to disasters. Whereas the vast majority of extant literature in the resilience field focuses on regional and community resilience, this work extends prior work by the authors on microeconomic (i.e., firm-level)...

The arm's length analysis of international transfer prices of multinational firms lacks sound methodological approach of the so-called function and risk analysis. In practice, such analyses are descriptive. Derived from Zadeh's mathematical theory of fuzzy sets, this paper investigates a...

The arm's length analysis of international transfer prices of multinational firms lacks a sound methodological approach of the so-called function and risk analysis. In practice, such analyses are of descriptive nature. Derived from Zadeh's mathematical theory of fuzzy sets, this paper...

Experienced firms act differently than newcomers, yet such differences vary with the context and with the type of experience. We thus investigate the effects of international experience on MNEs' ownership strategy across a range of developed and developing economies. We distinguish competence...

Paper's objectives: The paper aims to explore the negative impacts of social relationships (SR) on business activity. As a research context, the video game industry (VGI) and the video game developers' (VGDs) relationships are analyzed. Design/methods: 17 semistructured in-depth interviews and 1...

Objective: The article aims to identify factors that influence students' behavioural intentions to use generative artificial intelligence (GenAI). Research Design & Methods: We proposed a research model based on the theory of planned behaviour, the technology acceptance model and a literature...