This article examines the organizational, structural, and strategic factors that can speed up or slow down the adoption of E-banking innovations by financial institutions in the Lebanese market. A conceptual model is developed based on a review of the major innovation adoption theories and other...

The growing number of academic studies about online customer loyalty shows that diversity, if not divergence, exists regarding the measurement and conceptualization of online loyalty. By multiplying the theoretical foundations for the study of online loyalty, researchers have identified...

The unprecedented worldwide growth in the aggregate transaction value of mergers and acquisitions (M&A) has been accompanied by a concomitant increase in the advisory fees. Management consultants have challenged the status of banks in the latter's largely exclusive domain of M&A advisory...

In this study we address the existing gap in the literature on the strategic evolution of Australian MNCs and the effect their administrative heritage, developed in the domestic market, had on their ability to compete internationally. We explore the administrative heritage of eleven large...

Foster's Group is an Australia-based global alcoholic beverages company which produces a wide range of beer and wine. Case (A), set in February 2008, opens up with damning media reports, questioning the ability of Foster's CEO Trevor O'Hoy to deliver satisfying financial performance. The case...

Recent empirical studies established that Australian multinational corporations (MNCs) have been unsuccessful in international markets and explained the reasons behind this lack of success. The purpose of this paper is to elaborate on issues that flow from this recent empirical work. We develop...

Management consulting firms frequently assist their clients by providing merger and acquisition advice on a contingency basis. Drawing on a field study of acquisition decisions, the paper describes the common rationale for such behaviour and the pitfalls to which it may lead. These pitfalls...