Compatibility between asset and liability structures of a bank is necessary to maintain adequate liquidity, enhance profitability, and control risk within acceptable limits. Coordinated management of the two has assumed special significance with growing competition, complexity and risk in the...

Unwanted teenage pregnancy and the attendant morbidity and mortality necessitate an understanding of the factors influencing adolescent sexuality and the implementation of programmes designed to improve their knowledge and reproductive behaviour. A randomized controlled study on reproductive...

Effective entrepreneurship in emerging markets is a strategic process, and strategic management in emerging markets can hardly succeed without entrepreneurial orientation. Therefore, integrating the entrepreneurship and the strategic perspectives, we develop a construct of entrepreneurial...

This paper examines cultural and leadership variables associated with corporate social responsibility values that managers apply to their decision-making. In this longitudinal study, we analyze data from 561 firms located in 15 countries on five continents to illustrate how the cultural...

In this article, we investigated some of the pre-conditions of crisis faced by technology-focused firms, as a group, in the emerging markets facing globalization and looked at the modalities for turnaround. We applied the "entrepreneurial leadership" model recently proposed by Gupta, Macmillan...

The GLOBE southern Asia cluster consists of India, Indonesia, Iran, Malaysia, Philippines, and Thailand. The cluster has a total population of almost 1.5 billion and a gross domestic product of almost U.S.$1 trillion. The hallmark of the cluster is its high power distance and group and family...

There has been almost a half century of effort to identify clusters of societies using the analysis of international-level data. Using the data collected on cultural values and beliefs from 61 nations, GLOBE proposed 10 a priori clusters and used discriminant analysis to confirm the clusters in...

The globalization of the value chain puts older regional clusters characterized by local, vertical value chains across multiple connected sectors, at a significant risk. Firms operating within the local regional clusters need to develop new generic strategies and new bases of competitive...