European Business Review: Volume 33 Issue 2

The sequence of strategies when establishing Taiwanese restaurant in Thailand

Tzong-Ru Lee, Nirote Sinnarong, Yi-Hsiang Hsu, Hsiang-Ying Lan, Ching-Hua Yeh, Per Hilletofth

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the problem faced by many Taiwanese restaurant owners who trying to set up their shops in Thailand.

Corporate failure prediction models in the twenty-first century: a review

David Veganzones, Eric Severin

Corporate failure remains a critical financial concern, with implications for both firms and financial institutions; this paper aims to review the literature that proposes…

Odd couple collaborations and making them tick!

Pushkar P. Jha, Lorraine Johnston

Be it about blending intangibles to deliver to market needs or directed at fulfilling aspirations pushing at technological frontiers, inter-firm collaborations across industry…

Knowledge management activities and strategic planning capability development

Paul Hughes, Ian Hodgkinson

While the strategic management literature extols the virtues of engaging in strategic planning for superior performance, how a dynamic strategic planning capability can be…

Beyond the “like”: customer engagement of brand fans on Facebook

Tania Maree, G. van Heerden

The purpose of this study is to explore customer engagement (CE) in Facebook brand communities. It clusters Facebook brand fans to establish whether an existing typology holds in…

Negative emotions toward a financial brand: the opposite impact on brand love

Paula Rodrigues, Ana Pinto Borges

The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the effect of the scandals and distrust over the past years in brand love regarding a classic and well-known financial brand. The authors…

Corporate responses to modern slavery risks: an institutional theory perspective

Anthony Flynn, Helen Walker

Drawing on statements made under the transparency in supply chains provision of the UK Modern Slavery Act, this paper aims to examine how firms are responding to modern slavery…

Internationalization challenges for SMEs: evidence and theoretical extension

Ashna Ashwini Chandra, Justin Paul, Meena Chavan

The paper aims to examine new research on the internationalization of small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Pacific Island Nation country Fiji.

Validation of corporate environmental citizenship measurement in Malaysia

Lee Chin Tay, Fee Yean Tan, Khulida Kirana Yahya, Amran Rasli

The purpose of this paper is to validate the corporate environmental citizenship measurement originally developed by Banerjee (2002) in the Malaysian setting.

The effect of industry-specific networking behaviour on the internationalization performance of Czech SMEs

Mohit Srivastava, Ladislav Tyll

This paper aims to develop a thorough understanding of industry-specific networking behaviour on the internationalization performance of Czech small and medium enterprises (SMEs).

Understanding critical success factors and perceived future among micro and small firms through entrepreneurial action theory

Abel Duarte Alonso, Seng Kiat Kok

This study aims to examine how owners and managers of micro and small enterprises perceive firm success and the future of their businesses. Entrepreneurial action theory is…