Business has reacted in an impressive manner to increasing globalisation, short-term stock market pressure for performance, emerging industries and new technologies. While the private sector has become increasingly competitive, the public sector has not adopted this commercial rigour. Funding pressures on health services will continue, as will increasing consumer and staff demands and the blurr...

Intellectual property rights are widely recognized as critical assets in many industries, especially “high-tech” industries. Companies like IBM, Intel, and Hewlett-Packard regard their patents and copyrights, along with their other intangible assets such as know-how, as central elements giving them competitive advantage. Likewise, many software companies, from Microsoft to software startups see...

Introduction The tourism industry, which comprises 11.7% of total global economic output and supplies 8% of the total number of jobs worldwide, is one of the largest-scale service industries compared with other competitive industries. Thus, the development of the tourism industry not only supplies numerous job opportunities to local residents but also generates considerable foreign exchange ear...

Drawing on the emerging perspective of IT-enabled organizational capability, we suggest that operational agility and strategic flexibility in tandem with IT competency have a significant effect on firm performance in fast-cycle industries. We identify specific IT competencies and present a model that describes operational agility and strategic flexibility as mediating variables in the relations...

Focusing on economic distress episodes in an industry, we estimate the effect of conglomeration on resource allocation. Distressed segments have higher sales growth, higher cash flow, and higher expenditure on research and development than single-segment firms. This is especially true for segments with high past performance, for unrated firms, and in competitive industries. Single-segment firms...

The development of the industrial potential regions is an urgent task state policy and requires a set measures that can take into account not only structural characteristics regional economy, but also efficiency industries. A coupled assessment changes in concentration will allow to get more complete picture sectoral structure region’s economy accurately rank support. purpose article substantia...

In today’s advancing small-business competition, SME leaders are forced to build superior and innovative employees sustain competitive advantages. This study scrutinises the link between transformational leadership work behavior by developing a mediating research model. The samples used in this 235 who creative industries Kebumen. Most of respondents working design production divisions food, cr...