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The universality of design perception and response is tested using data collected from ten countries: Argentina … to logo design dimensions: the West, Asia, and Russia. The dimensions underlying design are found to be similar across … countries, suggesting that elaborateness, naturalness, and harmony are universal design dimensions. Responses (affect, shared …
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Personal strategies of owners/founders of small business startups are related to performance and to environmental … strategy and performance. A discrimination is made between four strategies (reactive, critical point, complete planning and …
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customers, and new market leaders. This paper examines the deviation among reviews of a technology’s performance and its …) from 1982 to 2007, the authors find that: (1) there exists vast deviation among reviews of technology performance leading …€™s claims, (2) such deviation does not fade over time, (3) technology review (study design) characteristics affect the stated …
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To fully understand the relationship between human resource management and performance in different contexts, we are in … policies in a specific company. In this way the paper broadens the present HRM and Performance debate by explicitly taking into …
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An important development that contributes to store brands’ growing success in the grocery market is the increasing number of discount stores that sell predominantly own, private-label, brands. To fight private labels, manufacturers of national brands feel increasingly compelled to develop...
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Small firms face distinct problems and opportunities when procuring IT resources. Whereas previous work focused at the level of firm or buyer-supplier dyad, we address portfolios of buyer-supplier relationships at an online marketplace for IT services. Using the portfolio approach, we develop a...
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innovation is more beneficial to a unit’s financial performance in more competitive environments. Through this richer …
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extent to which a firm's investment behavior and financial performance is influenced by its ownership structure. To do so, we … stakes of a particular category of investor and a firm's financial performance and investment behavior is highly …
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Learning is a vital issue for small business starters, contributing to short term and long term business performance …, learning opportunities and learning behaviours are related to three outcome measures: a performance outcome (goal achievement …
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The relationship between Human Resource Management (HRM) and firm performance has been a hotly debated topic over the …
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