European Business Review: Volume 28 Issue 1

SMEs and social capital: exploring the Brazilian context

Ruth Clarke, Ramdas Chandra, Marcilio Machado

This study aims to explore the extent to which social capital plays a role in firm development, internationalization and growth, in the context of an emerging market, Brazil. The…

Social media: is this the new organizational stepchild?

Youngtae Choi, Andrew Thoeni

– This paper aims to investigate what activities allow the firm to efficiently and effectively integrate social media into its strategic marketing activities.

Culture studies in international business: paradigmatic shifts

Sylvia Rohlfer, Yingying Zhang

This paper aims to unfold the path of how the complexity of culture issues leads to a rising pressure for paradigm changes in the research on culture in international management…

Identifying and treating unobserved heterogeneity with FIMIX-PLS: part I – method

Joe F. Hair, Jr., Marko Sarstedt, Lucy M Matthews, Christian M Ringle

The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of unobserved heterogeneity in the context of partial least squares structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM), its prevalence and…

A model of pilgrimage tourism: process, interface, people and sequence

Carmen Padin, Goran Svensson, Greg Wood

This paper aims to examine the elements of the main process of pilgrimage tourism (PT), occurring between pilgrims, hikers and tourists along a trail towards a holy site. PT is…

Examining knowledge gap and Psychic Distance Paradox interdependence: An exploratory inquiry

Symeon Mandrinos, Nik Malini Nik Mahdi

The purpose of this paper is to examine the relationship between the Knowledge Gap (KG) and Psychic Distance Paradox and to explain the three dominant factors; experiential…