In today's competitive landscape, startups and large corporations increasingly acknowledge the mutual benefits of collaboration. Despite the apparent benefits, collaborations come with their own set of challenges that may affect their success.
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Salvatore Ammirato, Alberto Michele Felicetti, Serena Filippelli, Thomas Maran
Multiple board directorships are a global phenomenon in the business environment and have come under intense debate from regulators, professionals, and academics alike. At the same time, sustainability has become a major challenge for firms in the …
The development of digital platforms and business ecosystems has led to the emergence of new business models and has transformed the competitive landscape. The exponential growth of digital technologies has created new challenges for managers and …
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María-Luz Martín-Peña, Pablo Cabanelas Lorenzo, Natanya Meyer
We explore the relation between job characteristics and employees’ self-evaluations of performance in comparison to their colleagues’ performance. Using unique individual panel data from ten large firms in Germany’s chemical industry, we focus on …
Economic growth combined with industrialization brought negative repercussions, notably the depletion of resources and environmental challenges. In light of new global consumption patterns, unprecedented challenges arise for Supply Chain …
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Allan Dênisson Soares da Silva, Wesley Vieira da Silva, Luciana Santos Costa Vieira da Silva, Nicholas Joseph Tavares da Cruz, Zhaohui Su, Claudimar Pereira da Veiga
This research explores the potential of supervised machine learning techniques in transforming raw data into strategic knowledge in the context of human resource management. By analyzing a database with over 205 variables and 2,932 observations …
Given recent criticisms, orienting the practices of microfinance institutions towards the achievement of their social missions is critical. Going beyond the dichotomous “government-or-market” view, we investigate a fundamental but barely studied …
Understanding whether consumer preferences are inherent or constructed has profound implications for a range of marketing and economic issues, such as demand estimation, consumer education and information, market design and competition. The …
The United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) call on all firms to apply their creativity and innovation to solving sustainable development challenges. There is then an argument that firms should address the SDGs by applying the …
This study analyses the impact of the critical issues on Travel and Tourism e-service failure and explores specifically how peer-to-peer accommodation business can cope with the potential collapse in demand caused by global crises. The purpose is …
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Pantea Foroudi, S. Asieh Hosseini Tabaghdehi, Valentina Cillo, Maria Teresa Cuomo
Frugal innovation through frugal functionality, frugal cost, and frugal ecosystems that reduce goods to their essential features has emerged as a highly effective method to improve sustainable development across societies, in developed countries …
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Qaisar Iqbal, Katarzyna Piwowar-Sulej, Andreas Kallmuenzer
This study intends to scrutinize the role of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Product-Service Innovation (PSI). The literature on AI enabled PSI, other related innovation business models, product-service systems, and servitization has grown …
This paper aims to quantify the innovation ecosystem model for allowing the development of smart products at the country level. In this regard, the research used an empirical approach to scale and validate the six dimensions of an innovation …
In the age of the digital economy, certain mechanisms and actions allow companies to generate sustainable competitive advantage by developing their transformative capacity through digitalisation. Identifying these mechanisms is important, and it …
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Klaus Ulrich, María Guijarro-García, Esther Pagán-Castaño, Paula Nieto-Alemán
In this paper, we rely on the information asymmetries framework and relationship lending theory to study how small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs)’s access to bank credit improves after the issuance of a Minibond. Minibonds are fixed-income …
Although Artificial Intelligence can offer significant business benefits, many consumers have negative perceptions of AI, leading to negative reactions when companies act ethically and disclose its use. Based on the pervasive example of content …
It is indisputable that coopetition exerts an influence on firm performance. However, a critical question persists: How should we comprehensively measure the performance of coopetition itself?. This paper addresses the inconsistencies in …
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Patrycja Klimas, Katarzyna Gadomska-Lila, Karina Sachpazidu