Posts tagged Business
Influence of Gender Diversity in Boards on Family and Non-family Businesses: Towards Innovation and Creativity

This article aims to understand better the impact of the diversity of gender in boards on the innovation and creativity of companies in the context of the structure of business—family businesses and non-family businesses. Based on women’s participation in decision-making and family firm literature, we argue that women directors/executives’ impact on decision-making will rely on their relative power and credibility within the board.

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Sources of Business Unit Performance Heterogeneity in India: The Influence of Ownership

Researchers have found that the relative importance of industry, corporate, and business unit effects vary depending on the broad economic sector in which a company is participating, or the country in which the corporation is operating. While this research has taken us a long way in understanding the effects of internal and external factors on the performance variance of a firm, our understanding of how generalizable those findings are across various ownership categories are scarce.

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To Remain Indian or Become International: On the Positioning of Indian B-Schools

Effectively strategizing B - Schools is important because their graduates serve as business practitioners and shall be responsible towards social and economic development of the country. Currently, approximately 89 percent of B-School in India are private (self-financed) and receive no aid from the government. In this challenging environment, this becomes very important for a B - School to utilize each resource not only to save their own business also to balance the concept of business and society.

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