Industrial location is an increasingly important decision facing both national and international firms. Given that no operational measures of the critical factors affecting a firm's industrial location decision exist, this paper develops an instrument for the critical factors. The developed instrument, consisting of 14 dimensions, passed through a stringent empirical validation test, and is bas...

a r t i c l e i n f o Keywords: Strategic marketing planning Industrial marketing Fuzzy cognitive map The relevance problem Design science Industrial marketing planning is a typical example of an unstructured decision making problem due to the large number of variables to consider and the uncertainty imposed on those variables. Although abundant studies identified barriers and facilitators of e...

In innovation projects, three sub-processes have to evolve concurrently. These are problem solving, to bring about a new product or process; internal innovation diffusion, to disseminate information and engender a positive attitude towards new developments; and change in the organization so that it may function successfully with new products or processes. The characteristics of these sub-proces...

Article history: Received 7 March 2012 Received in revised form 10 May 2012 Accepted 18 May 2012 Available online xxxx The open innovationmodel embraces the purposiveflowof internal and external ideas as a foundation for innovation and network formation. While the open innovation paradigm has been successfully applied in high-tech settings, there is a lack of research on adopters of open innova...

By using a unique cross-sectional dataset of Chinese industrial firms, this paper investigates the external and internal effects of human capital on firms’ environmental performance. The result shows that firms have better environmental compliance because they are ‘pushed’ into compliance by the internal driver of human capital and ‘pulled’ to be environmental friendly by the external force of ...