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Configurations of Durability Capabilities and Their Performance Implications During an Economic Shock: An Exploratory Study on New Ventures
(2019-05-01)
Organizational resilience (OR) has long been understood as an organizing framework of firm functioning during economic adversity. OR is central to strategic entrepreneurship research because new ventures emerge and exist ...
Intersection of entrepreneurial processes: The effect of integrating causation and effectuation processes on venture performance
(2017-12)
Entrepreneurs rely on a variety of decision-making heuristics when implementing entrepreneurial processes in small ventures. Researchers have suggested that entrepreneurs use effectual logic to utilize their available means ...
Government Incentives and Defined Benefit Pension Investment
(2019-05-01)
This study investigates the association between government incentives and defined benefit pension funding. The government provides tax incentives to defined benefit plans to buoy pension funding. In addition, sponsors of ...
H-Factor and the Moderating Role of Psychological Capital in Predicting Student Retention
(2019-07)
Nobody wins when a student drops out of college. Colleges lose revenue and students accumulate debt and experience lower lifetime earnings if they never finish college. Colleges and universities have spent an enormous ...
Consideration of prior experience in auditor industry specialization
(2015-07)
While industry expertise has been identified as a method of differentiation among audit firms to signal their skills and capabilities within particular industries, it is not known whether the length of time that an auditor ...
Dash of grit, a smidgen of stressor management and a pinch of regulatory tendencies to be engaged?
(2016-08)
This paper involved a path analysis of a new measure of grit to understand work engagement. Recent studies have found significant correlations between both constructs; however an explanation of "how" grit plays a role in ...
Corporate governance and hedge fund activism
(2015-12)
Over the past two decades, hedge fund activism has emerged as a new mechanism of corporate governance that brings about operational, financial and governance reforms to a corporation. Many prominent business executives and ...
Relationship of working memory to job performance and innovation with stress and effort as moderators
(2016-12)
The present study investigated working memory capacity and the affect it has on employees to perform their job and to be innovative. The study also considered moderation of effort and stress to the relationship of working ...
Antecedents to business succession planning in small relationship-dependent service businesses
(2015-12)
As the baby boom generation approaches and enters traditional retirement ages, the owners of small professional service firms are being inundated with advice concerning how to implement a business succession plan. While ...
Navigating the Seas of Change: How Small Businesses Respond to Environmental Dynamism
(2019-05-01)
This research poses the question, "How do the personalities and the perceptions of small business owners and managers impact their decision making processes in response to changes in their market environment?"