European Business Review: Volume 21 Issue 1

Your favourite manager is an organisational disaster

Jon Aarum Andersen

When subordinates are asked what kind of manager they prefer, the answers are virtually the same. Subordinates have a different focus than managers, as the latter focus on…

The strategic orientations of rapidly internationalizing software companies

Mika Ruokonen, Sami Saarenketo

This paper addresses the strategic orientations (entrepreneurial orientation, learning orientation, and market orientation) of rapidly internationalizing small software companies.

Child labour and supply chain: profitability or (mis)management

Ambika Zutshi, Andrew Creed, Amrik Sohal

The purpose of this paper is to provide a realistic assessment, with an historical perspective, of the current practises and progress made by organisations towards elimination of…

Barriers to entry and market strategy: a literature review and a proposed model

Anders Pehrsson

The purpose of this paper is to review previous research and to propose a model for the impact of barriers to entry on the market strategy of an entrant firm, where product/market…

The driving drivers of dynamic competitive capabilities: a new perspective on competition

Hung‐Hsin Chen, Po‐Yen Lee

The purpose of this paper is to identify the critical driving drivers of dynamic competitive capability (DCC) from the perspective of dynamic learning mechanisms (DLM), a…

When the owl of Minerva flew at dusk: marketing in Greater Germany, 1918‐1939

Ronald A. Fullerton

During the 1920s and into the 1930s, German‐language work on consumer behavior led the world; for example, segmentation was clearly discussed from the late 1920s. The purpose of…