Management Decision: Volume 52 Issue 2

Assessing credit risk of mortgage lending using MACBETH: a methodological framework

Fernando A.F. Ferreira, Sérgio P. Santos, Carla S.E. Marques, João Ferreira

Considered the largest investment for most households, buying a house requires careful and transparent analysis by all parties involved in the transaction. The aim of this paper…

Reasons for choosing mechanisms to protect knowledge and innovations

Heidi Olander, Mika Vanhala, Pia Hurmelinna-Laukkanen

Prior research has confirmed the usefulness of both formal and informal protection mechanisms for governing knowledge flows. However, there is lack of research on the motivation…

Knowledge sharing, intellectual capital and firm performance

Zhining Wang, Nianxin Wang, Huigang Liang

– The aim of this paper is to investigate the impact of knowledge sharing (KS) on firm performance and the mediating role of intellectual capital (IC).

Sense-making's role in creating alliance supportive organizational cultures

Ard-Pieter de Man, Dave Luvison

The aim of this paper is to analyze the way in which organizational culture affects alliance performance. The literature has begun to focus on intra-firm antecedents of alliance…

The uneasy transition from supply chains to ecosystems: The value-creation/value-capture dilemma

Soumaya Ben Letaifa

This paper uses the multidimensional definition of value – ecosystemic value – and employs lifecycle theory to identify the different stages of evolution of value-creation and…

Measuring the variance of customer waiting time in service operations

Xiaofeng Zhao, Jianrong Hou, Kenneth Gilbert

Waiting lines and delays have become commonplace in service operations. As a result, customer waiting time guarantee is a widely used competition strategy in service industries…

How much does innovation matter for economic growth?

Alberto Colino, Diana Benito-Osorio, Carlos Rueda Armengot

The aim of this paper is to gain new insight on the determinants of economic growth. More precisely, it disentangles the contribution of an increase in the stock of ideas that…

The condition of smallness: how what it means to be small deters firms from getting bigger

Alistair R. Anderson, Farid Ullah

– The purpose of this paper is to examine and explain why most small firms remain small. A new conceptual framework – the condition of smallness – is proposed.

Human capital, social capital and organizational performance

J. Augusto Felício, Eduardo Couto, Jorge Caiado

The aim of this paper is to evaluate the human capital and social capital of managers and the influence of these attributes on the performance of small and medium-sized Portuguese…

Financing successful small business projects

Irene Comeig, Esther B. Del Brio, Matilde O. Fernandez-Blanco

The current credit rationing strongly influences the viability of SMEs innovation projects. In this context, the practice of screening borrowers by project success probability has…

The impacts of top management team characteristics on entrepreneurial strategic orientation: The moderating effects of industrial environment and corporate ownership

Lin Yang, Danni Wang

The paper aims to empirically examine the questions of how top management team (TMT) characteristics, including TMT heterogeneity and vertical dyads differences between TMT and…

Gender gap in innovation: an institutionalist explanation

Inmaculada Carrasco

– The aim of this paper is to contribute to knowledge on innovation from a gender perspective, and to investigate how environment affects the process of innovation by women.