Cultural competence (CC) for professionals and organizations has been recognized as a key strategy to reduce health care inequalities for migrants and to promote responsiveness to diversity. For decades its main aim has been matching health services to the cultural needs of migrant users. Otherwise literature highlighted the need to find a pragmatic middle way between the 'static' and the 'dyna...

Internal corporate venturing enables radical innovation within established firms in mature markets. Without effectively designed and managed internal corporate ventures, the organizational constraints of established firms will strongly favour incremental innovation over radical innovation. This paper investigates the evolution of a successful internal corporate venture within a large, incumbent...

The ‘global city hypothesis’ proposed by Saskia Sassen – and subsequently developed by Manuel Castells and others in the theory of a globalized urban network – has in recent years formed the basis for the argument that power and control in transnational firms (TNCs) is primarily situated in global head-offices. Such offices are located in key urban centres such as London, New York or Tokyo wher...

The present study aims to design an international academic entrepreneurship model using grounded theory. The study population is a group of key Iranian informants, faculty members, and doctoral graduates with scientific expertise and work experience in the field of entrepreneurship, especially academic entrepreneurship and international entrepreneurship, and managers of knowledge-based academic...

this study investigates empirically the value investors place in excess cash holdingand how managerial ability impact on the value of cash holding for iranianfirms from 2006 to 2014. in this research, managerial ability calculated by usingthe data envelopment analysis (dea). following the approach of faulkender andwang, we find that the relation between managerial ability and value of cash hold...

a r t i c l e i n f o There are serious concerns about the theory–practice gap in the research on business marketing. One of the key aspects is the relevance and implementability of the results. The overarching objective of this special issue of " From Strategy Frameworks to Value-in-use: Implementing Strategies and Theories of B2B Marketing and Sales Management " is to enhance understanding of...

OBJECTIVES To determine work stress, and stress-coping strategies, and to analyze their the relationships in order to improve health-promoting lifestyle of nurses in Taiwan. METHODS Three hundred eighty-five nurses who had work experience for more than 6 mo, were selected from four district hospitals in Kaohsiung and Ping Tung. We used a stratified cluster random sampling method for the selec...

▪ Research on employer coordination in the advanced capitalist countries has focused almost exclusively on the manufacturing sector, even though the service sector is responsible for most employment growth. This article considers organizational change in the service sector, comparing structurally similar networks of public savings banks in France and eastern Germany. It finds that the capacitie...