With the emergence of the Industrial Internet of Things, a growing number of manufacturing firms has started to adopt non-ownership business models (NOBMs). NOBM providers maintain ownership of offered machinery and sell only the machine use and/or performance as a service to their clients....

Substantial efforts have contributed to overcome the scarcity of research on hidden champions. Nevertheless, literature has yet missed to compile a comprehensive review. Drawing on the insights of 112 publications, four strands of literature could be distinguished to unravel the essence of...

This paper argues that the typical practice of performing growth decompositions based on log-transformed productivity values induces fallacious conclusions: using logs may lead to an inaccurate aggregate growth rate, an inaccurate description of the micro sources of aggregate growth, or both. We...

The core objective of this paper is to determine the level of online dialogue in social media between the tourist industry leaders and their customers. This study applies sequential explanatory industry-representative comparison with statistical and qualitative analysis of online word-of-mouth...

Motivated by the rapid advancements in the field of business ecosystems (BEs), this paper presents a holistic overview of existing research in the field of business ecosystem strategy. As scholars have noted, BE strategy poses new challenges and diverges from traditional thinking in multiple...

In Western countries, there is a growing number of children raised by same-sex couples. The meaning of the term "family" has been evolving over the past decades, as well as the meaning of "family business". Based on the Faff's (2015) pitching research template, we present a pitch related to the...

This letter uses Faff's (2015) pitching research template to present a potential topic for research focused on "zombie firms" which consistently report negative equity or are unable to meet their interest payments, yet are still alive. The main research question is "What are the determinants of...

From the research viewpoint, conflicts in family firms belong to very challenging research areas. At the same time, the literature is fragmented, and it is not easy to identify and articulate a clear research question in this research domain. Based on Faff's (2015, 2019) pitching research...

We study how the threat of entry affects service quantity and quality of general practitioners (GPs). We leverage Germany's needs-based primary care planning system, in which the likelihood of new GPs reduces by 20 percentage points when primary care coverage exceeds a cut-off. We compile novel...

Organization theorists identify organizational social capital as one of the primary building blocks of a potentially powerful resource for improving organizational performance. However, little is known about the impact of the socio-emotional skills of the employees within their social capital...