International Journal of Commerce and Management: Volume 23 Issue 2

Financial flexibility and the performance during the recent financial crisis

Iwan Meier, Yves Bozec, Claude Laurin

The objective of this study is to test whether financial flexibility has value. Using the current financial crisis, the authors investigate whether firms that built up financial…

Exploring the role of intellectual capital in the development of e‐business models: Evidence from the Iranian carpet industry

Morteza Namvar, Pejman Khalilzadeh

This paper aims at exploring the role of structural capital (SC) dimensions – customer, process and innovational – in the development of e‐business models (eBM). The Iranian…

Board members' education and firm performance: evidence from a developing economy

Salim Darmadi

The purpose of the present paper is to examine the influence of the educational qualifications of board members, including the CEO, on the financial performance of Indonesian…

Barriers to export: the power of organisational factors

Natalia Vila López

This paper aims to investigate the export strategy of international business by explicitly comparing exporting firms with the non‐exporting ones, given that they supposedly differ…

A scientometric analysis of literature on performance assessment of microfinance institutions (1995‐2010)

Arup Roy, Chandana Goswami

The purpose of this study was to conduct a scientometric analysis of the body of literature contained in international peer‐reviewed journals, university publications, reports of…

Cooperative antagonism in the marketplace

Abbas J. Ali