David with Goliath: getting the best out of imbalanced supplier-customer partnerships
The growing trend for business co-creation means that the number of partnerships involving heavyweights and smaller organisations is inevitably rising. Multi-echelon international supply chains invariably involve firms with differing profiles,...
Read moreMiddle Managers on a Knife-edge
According to Marx, alienation is a consequence of the commodification of labour power and workers’ loss of control over the...
Read moreThe development of knowledge in the technological sector – how does bringing the parts together matter for inventive capabilities?
how such firms actually “create” something genuinely novel? How do they go about refining and re-deploying existing technologies in order...
Read moreDoing business in the right conditions: the ownership-performance conundrum
How do we explain the differences in firm performance? Practitioners and researchers ask themselves this question when trying to gauge...
Read moreMulti-party alliances: The relationship between perception and partners’ free-riding
The reality of the business partnerships has assumed a new dimension in recent times with the emergence of multi-party alliances,...
Read moreThe Family Firm Mixed Gamble – When Nepotism Makes Business Sense
Short-term gain versus long-term performance is a trade-off faced by many firms, whether run by executives with a work-only link...
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