' ... the Handbook of Qualitative Research Methods in Entrepreneurship is an important contribution to the field, and should be referenced in any paper using qualitative methodologies to investigate the entrepreneurial phenomenon.'--Craig S. Galbraith, Journal of Enterprising Communities. 'There...

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...

This paper focuses on the initial questions of how and when to enter a market from the perspective of a firm. By entry mode is meant a firm's strategy (innovation or imitation) for entering the market in response to environmental changes. Entry order refers to the related issue of market timing...

This paper attempts to illustrate the breadth of strategic approaches which an increasing number of corporate heads have chosen in switching from a re-active towards a pro-active attitude to the environment and the corporate challenges it raises. The five cases discussed - four Danish and one...

Purpose – This paper aims to discuss the need to dynamize the existing conceptualization of business model, and proposes a new typology to distinguish different types of business model change. Design/methodology/approach – The paper integrates basic insights of innovation, business process...

Sustainable, economic, environmental and social development will require substantial improvements in the efficiency of present environmental and resource use, which in turn will increase the focus on a broader set of environmental, economic and social linkages. These are the result of dynamic...

In the following, my comments are organized as follows. Firstly, I make some general comments and observations on the general problems and limitations of the orthodox Principal-Agent [P-A] theory of Agency put forward by Jensen and Meckling (M-E) when seen through the lens of real-world...