The recent decades have seen a rapid growth of service sector in the world economy. Jobs in this sector have increased tremendously (Kano, 1996) and organizations offering financial services, healthcare, communication and food, hospitality, transportation have proliferated. Many organizations in...

Both policy makers and managers in developing countries are passing through new challenges in many a fields: labor management, international affairs, business relationships and environmental regulations. Government, Judiciary and public are learning new grounds in decisions related to...

Since 1990, the Indian economy has moved towards greater openness and less controls. Many of the regulations which restricted entry, expansion of capacity and competition have been removed. This has increased the number of choices for the Indian consumer as well as competition among firms. The...

With globalization of markets and competition, foreign markets have become increasingly viable and natural opportunities for growth oriented firms In international marketing, an important decision concerns that of foreign market entry its mode, contents and implementation In this study, we make...

How do firms react when an industry faces increased competitive pressures due to trade liberalization? Firms are believed to bring about changes in their technology, marketing and organization by reorganization and redeployment of resources, often through exit process (Buffie and Spiller 1986,...

The Internet is rapidly pushing us into a global marketplace. The barriers that once isolated countries and people in the past are being blown away, and in the future so will businesses who bury their heads in the sand and pretend that none of this is really happening. The following are the...

Our understanding of innovation capability of firms in network industries is rather rudimentary. This paper uses dynamic capability building and innovation literature to propose a framework for innovation capability consisting of three dimensions: sensing capability, combinational capability and...

A considerable number of studies have been actualized on the integrative mechanisms in new product innovation. Most of these studies have focused on functional integration, especially R&D-marketing interfaces, as a unit of analysis. Studies have pointed out that most innovations is old science...