Achieving Financial Export Performance: Contribution of External Resources

Performance Prediction for Processors and External Resources

Regular forms of Amdahl’s law and the universal scalability model are functions of the number of processors p alone, therefore modelling only data sets with a single machine varying in its processor count. This paper demonstrates how these performance models can be expressed in terms of intrinsic machine characteristics such as: processor clock; external resource access speed; total threads; et...

Behind Intermediary Performance in Export Trade: Transactions, Agents, and Resources

This article draws upon the first author’s dissertation, completed at the University of Washington and voted as one of the top four best dissertations at the Barry Richman Competition, Academy of Management (Cincinnati, August 1996). Funding from the Washington, Hawaii, and Ohio State CIBERs, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, and Fisher College of Business Research Committee is gratefully ac...

Corporate Responsibility and Financial Performance: the Role of Intangible Resources

This paper examines the effects of a firm’s intangible resources in mediating the relationship between corporate responsibility and financial performance. We hypothesize that previous empirical findings of a positive relationship between social and financial performance may be spurious because the researchers failed to account for the mediating effects of intangible resources. Our results indic...

The Impact of Strategic Sustainability Management and Export Environment on the Export Performance of Caviar

The purpose of this study was evaluation of export performance of Iranian caviar and identification of its affecting factors. Therefore, this study has examined  theimpact of variables like ability of strategic sustainability management, the measure of export market-oriented and export flexibility taking into consideration of environmental differences between internal and external market on exp...

Determinants of Export Performance