Purpose – A firm will seek an optimal balance between internal R&D and technology outsourcing when formulating its innovation strategy. This paper aims to provide a review of the determinants of firm's innovation strategy, and performs an empirical study on a sample from Chinese high‐tech...

Industry reputation crises trigger producers and consumers to switch to certification as a signal of quality, especially in a weak institutional environment. In this paper, we posit that firm certification as a signaling mechanism involves the co-evolution of firms and consumers. We investigate...

Purpose: An important objective of human resource (HR) research is to understand how HR practices can influence employee attitudes and behaviors in order to help achieve organizational goals via employee performance. The paper studies the relationship between High Performance Work System (HPWS)...