Modern data warehouses store exceedingly large amounts of data, generally considered the crown jewels of an enterprise. The amount of data maintained in such data warehouses increases significantly over time—often at a continuous pace, e.g., by gathering additional data or retaining data for longer periods to derive additional business value, but occasionally also precipitously, e.g., when cons...

Firms in many high technology industries utilize and build on the innovations of others, often in the face of short product life cycles. Not surprisingly, the legal “rules of the game” governing intellectual property rights (such as patents) play a pivotal role in shaping this process of cumulative innovation by, among other things, affecting how the initial rights to technologies are allocated...

Firms in many industries build on the innovations of others, often in the face of short product life cycles. Not surprisingly, legal institutions governing intellectual property (IP) play a pivotal role in shaping this process of cumulative innovation. Recent studies suggest that IP-related “hold up” is especially problematic in the face of widely dispersed, or fragmented, markets for technolog...

The present research considers simultaneously the institutional, management fashion, and efficientchoice perspectives for understanding the drivers of VoIP adoption process. A theoretical model is developed and tested through structural equation modelling on 620 Italian firms. We hypothesize that both external and internal factors affect the intention to adopt VoIP. Results underscore both the ...

The employee engagement has emerged as a pivotal business driver for organizational success. High level of engagement in domestic and global firms is supposed to have multiple enriching effects on an organization. Studies have highlighted the importance of both organizational and individual factors in ensuring highly engaged employees. The present paper explores the individual differs across fo...

As sustainability is pivotal in combating the global warming and climate change crisis, we examine whether family firms differ from their nonfamily counterparts practices they adopt. Using a large sample of listed 45 countries over an 8-year period, show that on average engage less pollution prevention, green supply chain management, product development than firms. Our results remain consistent...

the employee engagement has emerged as a pivotal business driver for organizational success. high level of engagement in domestic and global firms is supposed to have multiple enriching effects on an organization. studies have highlighted the importance of both organizational and individual factors in ensuring highly engaged employees. the present paper explores the individual differs across fo...

This paper aims to study the performance implications of sustainable product attributes (SPA) US manufacturing firms. Specifically, it analyzes influence aggregate and disaggregated SPA on firm profitability. The further explores moderating marketing resource intensity profitability relationships. fixed-effect regression analysis 433 firms' panel dataset reveals that positively moderation also ...

In a series of recent studies, several economic historians (most prominently Richard Sylla) argue that successful economies experience ‘‘financial revolutions’’ before undergoing rapid growth. In the U.S., they suggest Hamilton masterminded the financial revolution by putting the public finance in order and facilitating private banks.MightMatsukata, they continue, have done the same in Japan? J...