Browsing Management & Marketing by Publisher "Elsevier Inc."
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Achieving rapid internationalization of sub-Saharan African firms: Ethiopian Airlines' operations under challenging conditions
( Elsevier Inc. , 2019 , Article)Having expanded their global operations, many African firms have begun to appear on the radar screens of multinational players. The distinctive nature of the African continent has directed these firms to follow unconventional ... -
An effectuation and causation perspective on the role of design thinking practices and digital capabilities in platform-based ventures
( Elsevier Inc. , 2023 , Article)The evolution of digital platforms and related ecosystems has led to a new and essential context of entrepreneurship. Previous studies have revealed that although high-tech new ventures possess cutting-edge technology, ... -
B2B service innovation and global industrial service management
( Elsevier Inc. , 2019 , Other)This special edition of IMM aims to develop knowledge and generate new insights and applications of service innovation in B2B context, and global industrial services management relevant to scholars and managers. This article ... -
Drivers’ perceptions of the sharing economy for transport services
( Elsevier Inc. , 2022 , Article)The sharing economy (SE) has been studied from various perspectives, but ridesharing is a particularly popular type of SE that has manifested around the world. Prior studies of the SE have largely explored customers’ ... -
External resource provision and the international performance of SMEs – A contextual analysis
( Elsevier Inc. , 2022 , Article)This paper investigates whether different categories of links (core and discretionary) to external resource providers are associated with the international performance of SMEs, as well as the perceived importance of external ... -
How Do SMEs Decide on International Market Entry? An Empirical Examination in the Middle East
( Elsevier Inc. , 2022 , Article)This study contributes to the scant literature that scrutinises the decision-making process preceding foreign entries, particularly in the Middle Eastern context. While considerable research has examined the content and ... -
Joint determination of process mean, price differentiation, and production decisions with demand leakage: A multi-objective approach
( Elsevier Inc. , 2016 , Article)The selection of an optimal process mean is an important problem in production planning and quality control research. Most of the literature in this area has focused on the single objective problem of maximizing the profit ... -
Management research in the Arab World: What is now and what is next?
( Elsevier Inc. , 2020 , Article)Given the significant political and socio-economic transformations occurring in the challenging yet under-researched Arab world nowadays, this study seeks to (1) systematically review the literature in the leading mainstream ... -
Other sources of FDIs in Sub-Saharan Africa: The case of Gulf Cooperation Council states
( Elsevier Inc. , 2019 , Article)Academic research on Foreign Direct Investments (FDIs) from emerging economies (EE) in Africa, particularly in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), has focused primarily on Chinese investments at the exclusion of investment activities ... -
SME international business models: The role of context and experience
( Elsevier Inc. , 2017 , Article)This paper addresses two questions through a study of 180 SMEs located in contrasting industry and home country contexts. First, which business models for international markets prevail among SMEs and do they configure into ... -
SME internationalisation: Do the types of innovation matter?
( Elsevier Inc. , 2023 , Article)Existing evidence suggest that innovative Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (or SMEs) are more likely to internationalise (i.e. have a greater propensity to export) than non-innovative SMEs. However, it is not yet clear ... -
The evolution of base of the pyramid approaches and the role of multinational and domestic business ventures: Value-commitment and profit-making perspectives
( Elsevier Inc. , 2019 , Article)Anchored in the current controversy around the role of multinational enterprises (MNEs)in promoting base of the pyramid (BoP)initiatives in developing nations, this paper analyzes the evolution and changes in BoP approaches ...