Sustainability Initiatives, Knowledge-Intensive Innovators, and Firms’ Performance: An Empirical Examination

Economic returns to firms from business-to-business electronic commerce initiatives: an empirical examination

Do firms derive economic returns from business-to-business (B2B) initiatives? How do returns to startup firms compare to those for established firms in B2B initiatives? How do returns to B2B initiatives around digital goods compare to those involving tangible goods? We offer a rigorous definition of B2B then conduct an empirical test of incomplete contract theory to examine the returns to B2B e...

An Empirical Examination of the Relationship between Ownership Structure and the Performance of Firms in Nigeria

This study examines the relationship between ownership structure and the financial performance of listed firms in the financial sector of the Nigerian economy. To achieve the objective of this study, a total of 31 selected listed firms in the Nigerian stock exchange market were used. Also, the corporate annual reports for the period 2006-2010 were analyzed. This paper basically modeled the corp...

Sharing knowledge in knowledge-intensive firms

Knowledge-intensive firms need to share knowledge held by employees if they are to gain the most from their intellectual capital and compete effectively in the marketplace. Sharing and integrating knowledge within the organisation depends partly on building social capital. However, there are obstacles to this integration because knowledge is often distributed throughout the organisation. This a...

Knowledge-Bases, Places, Spatial Configurations and the Performance of Knowledge-Intensive Professional Service Firms

In recent years both economic geographers and innovation scholars have paid considerable attention to knowledge-intensive-business-services (KIBS) and professional service firms (PSFs). Both communities have also shown a strong interest in knowledge, and ‘knowledge-bases’. Considering architecture to be based on symbolic and synthetic knowledge, and engineering to be based on analytical and syn...

Workforce Diversity Initiatives -1- Running head: Workforce Diversity Initiatives Defining the Attributes and Processes that Enhance the Effectiveness of Workforce Diversity Initiatives in Knowledge Intensive Firms