There are empirically validated theoretical arguments for both a positive and a negative impact of OEM-initiated market (bilateral) governance on supplier responsiveness. In this research we offer a partial resolution to these theoretical contradictions by identifying mediators and moderators of...

August 29, 2005. Hurricane Katrina made landfall and caused catastrophic damage along the coastlines of Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana killing at least 1,836 people [12]. Nearly 80 percent of the city of New Orleans and surrounding areas were ravaged. Katrina is estimated to be responsible...

System transitions are complex societal co-evolutionary processes that are typically led by gradual adaptation rather than visionary management or coordination. Still, visionary coordination of policies, regulation, corporate strategies and social learning may overcome some barriers and foster...

This conceptual paper aims to increase our understanding of service innovation by separating and analyzing some of its basic dimensions: the target of the renewal, the nature of the renewal, and the radicalness of the renewal. Service innovations are discussed both at the product level and at...

Human capital has emerged as an important source of sustainable competitive advantage in the knowledge-based economy. However, due to the dominance of financial and accounting conventions, corporate public reporting is limited in capturing information on human capital. The objective of the...

Spanish Abstract: El trabajo analiza, de manera agregada, los niveles de fragmentación existentes en las elecciones para concejos municipales de los 42 municipios del Valle del Cauca entre 1997 y 2011; de manera específica, los efectos que produjeron sobre esta una serie de variables...

In his pioneering writings, Schumpeter identified five different types (cases) of innovation, which in modern terms are product, process, market, input and organisational innovations. This paper discusses the applicability of these innovation types in services a sector which was not yet topical...