This article analyzes the challenges brought about by the globalization of innovative activity to the science and practice of management. The task of matching organization structure and management practices to the needs of R&D offshoring is analyzed through a set of dichotomous pairs of...

The Kauffman Firm Survey (KFS) - is the largest longitudinal study of new businesses ever embarked upon. The panel of businesses was created by using a random sample from Dun & Bradstreet’s (D&B) database list of new businesses started in 2004, which totaled roughly two hundred fifty-thousand...

Sustainable Development is close at becoming the catcword of the 1990s. As it has been developed up to now, however, it is somewhat far from being operational for individual corporations. It is attempted to transform the Brundtlandian contradictorary concept of sustainable development into a...

Performance measurement systems (PMS) like the BSC are not strategy neutral. They embed empirical postulates of generic strategic actions (cause-and-effect relationships) driving successful business performance and make specific prescriptions for managerial action. This paper shows that the...

Economics and Commerce are closely related. Many aspects fall in both areas or in their borderline. Modern research, particularly in social and managerial sciences needs to have trans-disciplinary approach with both common-purpose and special-purpose applications. That gives a vast canvas for...

Die Personalökonomik ist eine recht junge (Teil-)Disziplin, die (mikro-)ökonomische Methoden und Erkenntnisse auf die betriebliche Personalfunktion anwendet. Sie ist wissenschaftlich fruchtbar und ist komplementär zu anderen disziplinären Zugängen zu Personalproblemen, während ein...

Using survey data from firms around the world I analyze how detection of bribery has impacted a firm's competitiveness over the past year. Managers report that the most significant impact was on employee morale, followed by business relations, and then reputation and regulatory relations. The...

A long-standing ideology in business education has been that a corporation is run for the sole interest of its shareholders. I present an alternative view where increasing concentration of economic activity and power in the world's largest corporations, the Global 1000, has opened the way for...

A profound review of the literature on entrepreneurship reveals that it does not exist a specific information tool to measure the individuals' readiness for entrepreneurship. The purpose of this research has been building such kind of instrument to estimate the individuals’ readiness for...

We initiated a conversation between two prominent scholars in the field of employee mobility who come from different disciplinary backgrounds: Rajshree Agarwal — from the human capital research perspective — and Matthew Bidwell — from the human resource management research tradition. Their...