We investigate the association between business strategy and firm-level tournament incentives in China find that is associated with positively. further this positive relationship manifests itself local, but not central, state-owned enterprises (SOEs). In addition, we also offer some evidence foreign institutional investors play a moderating role on incentives. Our study fills gap existing liter...

While the competitive advantage of mass customization has been widely substantiated in management theory, a deficit exists in the empirical examination and the implementation of mass customization in e-business strategies. Founded on an exploratory study of more than 100 international mass customizers we deploy a systematization to demonstrate how modern Internet technologies and possibilities ...

This paper is designed for business leaders who must make critical decisions regarding the development of the next generation of Web-based enterprise application systems, ecommerce products and Web-based services targeted at the business sector. The key point is that building and maintaining an effective support infrastructure for business processes has become a technologically demanding task w...

Due to the economic and social priorities afforded health services in the United States, research on new delivery modalities such as the Internet is gaining in popularity. Claims of the Internet's potential range from a promise to revolutionize the fundamental way health care is delivered to a tool for empowering patients through enhanced interaction with providers (Rice, 2001). Even though a g...

Firms pursue various strategies to exploit resources and capabilities and gain a competitive advantage (Porter, 1996). Interfirm relationships are collaborative agreements between organizations (Chakrabarty, 2006a; Whetten, 1981), and firms need to be careful in adopting suitable strategies to deal with interfirm relationships (Chakrabarty, 2007b). Interfirm relationships represent a sort of tr...