This study proposes the role of leader’s commitment to export activities as an antecedent specific organizational skills. In particular, this research investigates whether leaders’ exporting affects firm performance, through mediating effect entrepreneurial orientation, network competence, and dynamic capabilities a firm, using survey data collected from 976 companies in Portugal. Results struc...

Background Community pharmacy has been a lucrative area of practice for pharmacists in Jos, Nigeria, until about the turn of the millennium where a decline in viability of the business has been observed. Objective This study assessed the entrepreneurial skills of community pharmacists, the business performance of community pharmacies and the impact of their entrepreneurial skills on business ...

BACKGROUND There are no national data on levels of organizational capacity within the Canadian public health system to reduce the burden of chronic disease. METHODS Cross-sectional data were collected in a national survey (October 2004 to April 2005) of all 216 national, provincial and regional-level organizations engaged in chronic disease prevention through primary prevention or healthy lif...

This study aims to explore mothers’ perceptions regarding their contributions 9- 12-year-old children’s organizational skills (e.g., time management, material organization, self-care skills). mixed-methods implements the explanatory sequential design. In first stage, mothers (n = 191) filled out Questionnaire for Assessing Students’ Organizational Abilities (QASOA) and answered some demographic...

Africa in general is said to still be lagging behind the developed nations in terms of workforce skills, and South Africa is not an exception. The problem of skills inadequacy, it is argued, has a negative effect on enterprises as it presents hurdles to the country’s economic development objectives. Small, medium and large organizations tend to suffer from the said issue. In the context of Sout...

The growing number of PhD students has spurred debates about the societal relevance of PhD training trajectories. The academic labour market does not provide enough jobs and many PhD graduates will have a career outside academia. It has been questioned whether current PhD training trajectories are still adequate and collaborative research projects are introduced as alternative trajectories. Suc...