T need to understand the relationships among customer metrics and profitability has never been more critical. These relationships are pivotal to tracking and justifying firms’ marketing expenditures, which have come under increasing pressure. The objective of this paper is to integrate existing knowledge and research about the impact of customer metrics on firms’ financial performance. We inves...

In this conceptual paper, we attempt to answer the question: How do firms develop frugal IT capabilities in a resource-constrained ecosystem? Frugal firms can successfully overcome severe infrastructure, financial, social, and technological constraints. "Frugal IT Innovation” is a special case of frugal innovation where IT/IS play a pivotal, core role in enabling capabilities to overcome challe...

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the approach of analogical thinking for product innovation. We collected data on projects from four engineering firms where analogical thinking was successfully applied for the development of breakthrough innovations. Results show that abstracting the problem by in-depth technical and contextual analysis is pivotal when searching for analogical soluti...

Purpose This study aims to investigate transition patterns originating from the confiscation of mafia-type firms, examining public administrations and nonprofit organizations' roles. Design/methodology/approach investigates case “Calcestruzzi Ericina Libera,” a firm located in Sicily confiscated Mafia 1996. The analysis covers an extended period (approximately 25 years). Findings empirical docu...

This paper studies the interactions between European carbon and green bond markets from lens of power firms' trading activity over an eight-year period (2013?2020). Those firms have used two segments differently: one for short-term hedging speculative purposes long-term needs. The second is found to informational advantage other complements it. Interestingly, we show that market as a complement...

With the dramatic increase in direct foreign investment (DFI) in China over the past two decades, understanding the role of DFT in her economic development has become essential. This thesis focuses on the impact of the clustering of DFI on urban economic development through a case study of the Economic and Technological Development Zone (ETDZ) and High-tech Industrial Park (HTIP) in Qingdao, Sh...

In the present paper, we investigate consequence relations that are both paraconsistent and plausible (but still monotonic). More precisely, we put the focus on pivotal consequence relations, i.e. those relations that can be defined by a pivot (in the style of e.g. D. Makinson). A pivot is a fixed subset of valuations which are considered to be the important ones in the absolute sense. We worke...

We analyze the geometry of scaling limits of near-critical 2D percolation, i.e., for p = pc + λδ 1/ν , with ν = 4/3, as the lattice spacing δ → 0. Our proposed framework extends previous analyses for p = pc, based on SLE6. It combines the continuum nonsimple loop process describing the full scaling limit at criticality with a Poissonian process for marking double (touching) points of that (crit...