At least since Skinner's [40] landmark article depicting the manufacturing function as the "missing link" in corporate strategic processes, a portion of the blame for inferior performance in many firms has been attributed to the subordinate strategic position of manufacturing. Further, it has been argued by many that part of the solution to misalignments between the capabilities possessed by ma...

This paper extends entrepreneurship into the domain of alliances, and investigates the effect of alliance proactiveness on market-based firm performance (defined in terms of sales growth, market share, market development and product development). Alliance proactiveness is defined as the extent to which an organization engages in identifying and responding to partnering opportunities. The effect...

The purpose of this study is to evaluate how proactiveness and risk-taking of entrepreneurial orientation appearing in SMEs and the level of performance-oriented and human-oriented dimension of national culture are related. Selective comparative research on eight hypotheses were established with data collected from 387 South Korea and Thailand SMEs to verify the level of relationship of two nat...

Peer assessment continues to be a topic of interest in the educational arena for decades, especially with the popularity of MOOC in recent years. However, the reviewer assignment moment, which may affect the process efficiency and learning proactiveness reward, lacks appropriate consideration. In this study, we propose three reviewer assignment algorithms, postassignment, pre-assignment, and su...

In order to enable proactiveness in applications and services, inferences about likely future contexts are needed. This task, which is often referred to as context prediction, has not been properly addressed in the literature. We define the different components of context awareness from data acquisition to prediction. Some mathematical principles of making predictions, alongside with technical ...

Studies of entrepreneurial orientation tend to examine its three most common features only (risk-taking, innovativeness, and proactiveness), merging these into a gestalt construct of entrepreneurial orientation and then analyzing its effect on business performance. This is in contrast to Lumpkin andDesswho stressed an entrepreneurial orientation is best characterized by five dimensions which ca...

With rising unpredictability and continued changes in the healthcare environment, organizational responses to information privacy threats are unclear, needing better classification and precision. This paper presents an innovative approach by combining the pressures of the healthcare environment and its internal context by extending two organizational typologies: Oliver’s (1991) strategic respon...

Entrepreneurial orientation (EO) is associated with superior performance, although the mechanisms through which EO translates into an advantageous market position are still poorly understood. Drawing on and resource-based theory (RBT) literature, this study highlights role of a systemic bundle firms' capabilities in channelling effect performance. The components – innovativeness, risk-taking, p...