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From Empire to Aid: Analysing Persistence of Colonial Legacies in Foreign Aid to Africa

Journal of International Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT For decades now, Western development agencies and donors have been castigated for their colonial biases in providing aid to Africa. It is well established that donors provide considerably more foreign aid to their former colonies relative to other countries.
Swetha Ramachandran
wiley   +1 more source

Ch‐Ch‐Ch‐Ch‐Changes: The Impact of Supply Base Growth, Contraction, and Turnover on Firm Innovation

Journal of Operations Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Modern supply chains are experiencing more disturbances due to regulatory shifts, rising sustainability standards, emerging or declining markets, and disruption to critical inputs. Some firms react by strengthening existing supplier partnerships to resist changes, while others reconfigure relationships with suppliers to embrace changes ...
Jordan M. Barker, Ellie C. Falcone, Yang Sophie Yang‐Sun, Tingting Yan   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Coping Practices of Small‐ and Medium‐Sized Enterprises Facing Power Asymmetry in Digital Platform Business

Strategic Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Digital platform (DP) enterprises have risen to the top of the global economy by inverting traditional business models. They earn money through matchmaking, transaction facilitation, and efficient orchestration of other stakeholders' resources.
Lukas R. G. Fitz, Jochen Scheeg
wiley   +1 more source

Bounded Sustainable Entrepreneurship: Uncertainty, Perceptions, and Tensions

Strategic Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Entrepreneurs experience subjective perceptions of uncertainty and other barriers as they attempt to design their business model. These create boundaries of a cognitive nature that entrepreneurs must navigate. It has been suggested that sustainable entrepreneurship is inherently even more uncertain and complex than traditional entrepreneurship.
Martyna Jurek, Kristian J. Sund, Francesco Rosati   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Values in Exchange: Ambiguous Ownership, Collective Action, and Changing Notions of Worth in Romanian Mutual Fund Industry [PDF]

, 2008
This paper analyzes the political disputes and legal contentions occasioned by the process of regulatory reform undergone by Romanian mutual fund industry.
Tulbure, Narcis
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Portfolio Entrepreneurs' Strategic Responses to the COVID‐19 Outbreak: The Role of Adaptation, Decision‐Making, Temporality, and Coordination

Strategic Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study explores the immediate responses of portfolio entrepreneurs (PEs) in the Netherlands to the onset of the COVID‐19 pandemic. Employing a longitudinal design, real‐time data were collected from 21 PEs through verbal interviews and open‐ended questionnaires, capturing their initial entrepreneurial reactions.
Tobias Kutzewski, Ingrid A. M. Wakkee
wiley   +1 more source

Setting the Record Straight: The Intellectual Legacy of H. Igor Ansoff (1918–2002)

Strategic Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study presents a comprehensive annotated bibliography of H. Igor Ansoff's intellectual contributions, addressing significant gaps in existing citation databases such as Scopus and Web of Science, which capture only 9 to 15 percent of his work.
Richard W. Puyt
wiley   +1 more source

Management Control Systems, Bricolage, and Frugal Innovation: Effects on Value Creation in Startups With a Social Mission

Knowledge and Process Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study analyzes the effects of the management control systems (social networking and organic innovative culture), via bricolage and frugal innovation, in the social and economic value creation of startups with a social mission. Data from 118 Brazilian startups with a social mission were analyzed using structural equation modeling and fuzzy‐
Anderson Betti Frare, Ilse Maria Beuren
wiley   +1 more source

From tools to theories: The emergence of modern financial economics [PDF]

It is shown that early research in modern financial economics had substantially been driven by the application of the research strategy of economics and the use of newly developed mathematical methods. For this purpose the professionalization of business
Koehn, Julia
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The Impact of Public Administration Education on Individual Policy Capacity of Federal Civil Servants in Ethiopia

Public Administration and Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In recent decades, policy capacity has garnered increasing attention from scholars in the Global North. However, there has been limited focus on policy capacity in developing countries, particularly in Africa. While various factors, such as experience, the nature of policy tasks, and educational background, can influence the policy capacity of
Kiflie Worku Angaw, Bacha Kebede Debela, Ellen Fobé, Marleen Brans   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source