Drawing on the supply chain (SC) management literature, this article conceptualizes and empirically tests a framework that shows how both external and internal integration practices are significant and positively associated with SC value addition and firm performance. The framework also tests the impact of value addition as a reinforcing factor on firm performance. The outcome of this investiga...

There are many factors that could have a potential impact on the growth of a firm. In this research, we examined the relationship between the following economic elements: Size of the firm, Research and development expenditure, Advertisement cost, and the growth of Iranian firms of manufacturing industry. For this purpose, four digit ISIC standard data in manufacturing industry sector have been ...

As emerging digital technologies and capabilities continue to dominate our economic landscape, organizations are facing increased scrutiny on how digital transformation can provide the mechanism for innovation and firm performance. Using resource-based view (RBV) framework, this research examines the mediating effects of digital transformation in the relationship between IT capability and firm ...

We investigate whether directors with multiple outside board directorships are related to corporate financial strategy across firm life cycle stages. Using a large sample of firms from the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries, we find that when number seats increases, firms' level cash holdings rises, capital expenditure declines, selling, general and administrative (SG&A) expenses increase...

In this paper, we conduct a succinct review of literature to understand the impact board gender diversity on firm performance and risk. The indicates that effect risk is inconclusive. Many studies indicate presence positive association between firm’s its value, while others document negative relation, still some showing there no significant relation We recommend vast scope for research in area,...

The resource-based view of the firm attributes superior firm performance to organizational resources that are valuable, rare, non-substitutable, and difficult to imitate. Aligned with this view, the authors contend that both information technology (IT) and knowledge management (KM) comprise critical organizational resources that contribute to superior firm performance. The authors also examine ...

nowadays, the process of knowledge sharing has gone beyond organizational boundaries and the issue of knowledge sharing is discussed widely among different companies and organizations in order to improve their performance. with the emergent of outsourcing process and increasing attention of organizations toward it, managers are more inclined to outsource their services; but, the problem of inte...

This paper characterizes inter-industry heterogeneity in rates of learning-by-doing, and examines how industry learning rates are connected with firm performance. Using plant-level data from the US manufacturing sector, we measure the industry learning rate as the coefficient on cumulative output in a production function. We find that learning rates vary considerably among industries and are hi...

the conflict between investors' interests and managers is an important issue which has been attracted researchers attentions in last decade. according to the related literature, corporate governance body of research has offered alternatives for solving this problem such as ownership structure. this research investigates the effect of ownership structure on firm performance. the factors whi...