A content analysis of 99 articles focuses on the comparative cross-cultural marketing research
in 14 leading marketing and business journals from 1990 to 2008. The content analysis …

The German manufacturing industry has to withstand an increasing global competition on
product quality and production costs. As labor costs are high, several industries have suffered …

The present study unravels how small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) learn and
determines the role that entrepreneurial orientation (EO) plays in how they learn. Adopting a …

Innovative products are widely recognized as an important source of competitive advantage.
However, many companies have difficulties finding efficient and successful approaches to …

Academic interest in absorptive capacity (ACAP), which has grown rapidly over the past two
decades, has focused on ACAP’s effect on organizational learning, knowledge sharing, …

Extant research has shown that entrepreneurial orientation (EO) is positively associated
with firm performance, but several contingencies affect the strength of this relationship. This …

… For the sales personnel construct, we adapted a measure from Brettel, Claas, and Heinemann
(2006) to our S&D context. This measure comprises components such as staffing and …

… Malte Brettel (Center for Entrepreneurship, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany) …
Firm performance was measured using six items related to the respondents' impression of …

Absorptive capacity (ACAP) is a firm's ability to innovate by identifying, assimilating, and
exploiting knowledge available in its environment. ACAP has been widely researched, but this …

We have investigated the functional role of the non-helical end domains of vimentin on its
assembly properties using truncated Xenopus and human recombinant proteins. Removal of …