American Journal of Business: Volume 28 Issue 2

Corporate financial policies in emerging markets: the role of financial market development

Charles Amo-Yartey, Joshua Abor

– The paper aims to study the importance of financial market development and financial structure in explaining the financial policies of firms in emerging market countries.

Commercialization of innovations: an overarching framework and research agenda

Avimanyu Datta, Richard Reed, Len Jessup

The commercialization of innovation, which is key to entrepreneurial success, is a combination of several entrepreneurial activities. Building on research from fields of…

Benefiting from your buddy: A conceptual exploration of the links between social capital and firm innovative capability under environmental turbulence

Dev K. Dutta

The purpose of this paper is to offer a conceptual understanding of the role played by social capital when firms engage in collaborative partnerships to develop their innovative…

Lessons learned from a part-time worker typology applied to full-timers

Jenell Lynn-Senter Wittmer, James E. Martin

Research on work status differences has yielded inconsistent results and is not relevant for today's workforce, economic circumstances, or the changing nature of work…

Political skill as a moderator of the relationship between subordinate perceptions of interactional justice and supervisor ratings of interpersonal facilitation

Darren C. Treadway, L.A. Witt, Jason Stoner, Sara Jansen Perry, Brooke A. Shaughnessy

Based on social exchange theory and the norm of reciprocity, interactional justice has been proposed to be an important construct in explaining individual performance. However…

A few thoughts about international relationships and agreements

Tom Sharkey

Sustainability: a business phenomenon

Richard Reed

BP's sustainability strategy: capturing returns from first-mover advantage

Steve Percy