The impact of market orientation on business performance has been extensively studied in a wide range of business environments including those in which the multi-national corporation (MNC) subsidiaries operate. What remains unclear is, however, whether the relationship between market orientation...

Since the early 1970s there has been interest in the application of optimal control theory to the management of economic systems. Specifically, optimal control theory prescribes policy strategies which optimise a quantifiable policy preference function subject to market equilibrium conditions....

The beneficial economic effects of entrepreneurial activity can only be realised if such activity is relatively unconstrained in both product and factor markets, finance has been widely identified as a potential constraint on entrepreneurial activity due to either debt or equity gaps. However,...