Baltic Journal of Management: Volume 9 Issue 2

Market orientation, innovation capability and business performance: Insights from the global financial crisis

Juho-Petteri Huhtala, Antti Sihvonen, Johanna Frösén, Matti Jaakkola, Henrikki Tikkanen

– The paper aims to examine the role of market orientation (MO) and innovation capability in determining business performance during an economic upturn and downturn.

Comparison of practitioners' views on managing equity investments: Evidence from Poland

Lukasz Prorokowski, Paulina Roszkowska

The purpose of this paper is to examine the extent to which Central European emerging stock markets (focusing on Poland) have been affected by the recent international financial…

Implication of inside-debt: signalling for bankruptcy probabilities within small firms

Raul Seppa

Small privately held firms extensively use debt provided by principal owners and households (inside-debt) as an alternative capital source to straight equity capital. The purpose…

The role of dialogue between executives and ground-level employees mediated by MACS

Ülle Pärl

The purpose is to understand the manner in which companies use management accounting and control systems (MACS) for dialogical communication in assisting collaboration and the…

The effect of an MBA on the development of women's management competencies: A gender viewpoint

Anna-Maija Lämsä, Terttu Savela

This article aims to report the findings of a study of the effect of a women's Master of Business Administration (MBA) programme in Finland called the femaleMBA on the development…

Comparing CSR communication on corporate web sites in Sweden and Spain

Manuel Castelo Branco, Catarina Delgado, Manuel Sá, Cristina Sousa

This study investigates the use of the internet by the largest companies based in Sweden and Spain to communicate their engagement in corporate social responsibility (CSR…

Special issue on innovation driven by knowledge management