James Neelankavil

Purpose – The purpose of this paper was to analyze the level of innovation and entrepreneurial culture among Asian multinationals, especially as they face intense competition from large global companies. Past practices and the sense that Asian companies are followers rather than innovators have resulted in the persistent belief that these companie...

The paper examines the self-efficacy as an external variable that is expected to provide further insights to increase the explained variance of the theoretical model. Overall, self-efficacy was found to influence cognition perceptions and emotional reactions. Specifically, self-efficacy was found to play a substantive role in shaping individuals’ a...

Purpose – This paper aims to examine whether self-efficacy plays an important role in shaping the effect of cognition and affects in high technology adoption. It also examines whether cognition and affect mediate the effect of self-efficacy on attitude toward adoption. Design/methodology/approach – Using an experimental survey to collect data, sub...

Competition is a very important preconditionwhich affects the effectiveness of development of national economy under the conditions of globalization. In classical economics, the competitiveness of countries is determined through production inputs. In the modern era of globalization, it appears that, besides quantifiable factors, qualitative influen...

Human capital and its associated principles of talent management are sound platforms on which to leverage a company's fundamental resources to attain corporate goals. Unfortunately, the importance of human resource management (HRM) within organizations is often overlooked. The fundamental problem observed by many researchers in the HRM field is the...

The inflow of foreign direct investment (FDI) has been found to play a crucial role in the economic growth of receiving countries. Using panel cointegration techniques, this perception was found to be mitigated by an empirical approach that yields different results from previous studies. While the growth in real FDI has an influence on real GDP gro...

Purpose Between the lack of incentives for larger international companies and the lack of resources of the local companies the majority of the people in less developed countries never benefit from new products. International companies generally offer modified product offerings to consumers in developing countries. To date, their attempts to penetra...

Purpose To derive and apply a new composite performance metric to top performing US companies in order to identify consistently excellent performers and explain their success over the last half‐century. The ten firms topping the list for this new composite performance metric represent the “best of the best” of American corporations during the fifty...

This study investigates the dynamics of three strategic variables across three countries in the high-technology sector. The variables under investigation are research and development (R&D) expenditure, capital expenditure (CPX), and sales and administrative (S&A) expenditure and the three countries are the US, Japan, and the UK. We estimate the con...

This article examines differences in the motivational dispositions of middle-level managers in four countries - China (N = 204), India (N = 184), the Philippines (N = 220), and the United States (N = 176). Important differences were found in the factors that motivate managers across the four countries. While East-West differences clearly exist, sig...

This paper examines differences in what affects managerial performance of middle-level managers in four countries—China (N=204), India (N=184), the Philippines (N=220), and the United States (N=176). Important differences were predicted and found in factors affecting managerial performance as perceived by the respondents. While East-West difference...

Presents findings from an empirical study which investigates the effects of different advertising appeals used across cultures. Cultural differences along the individualism-collectivism dimension are hypothesized to affect people’s reactions to certain advertising appeals. Results indicate that appeals which emphasize individualistic benefits are m...

Identifies problems facing MBA programmes, the type of executives sought by businesses, and the roles academic and business institutions need to play in developing the next generation of managers. Views MBA programmes through an input-output model with the quality of the output (MBAs) a function of the quality of the input and the efficiency of the...

Focuses on the training practices of Japanese firms and explains, in part, some of the phenomenal successes of their global and domestic operations. Relevant information was gathered by a survey questionnaire from 110 Japanese managers working in Japan (in ten manufacturing and ten service companies). It appears that Japanese firms pay considerable...

This article reports on a study of the export efforts of 223 small-to-medium sized companies. The research tried to identify the factors that are considered to be critical to the export success of such companies. The study also investigated the use of both subjective and objective measures of export success with a view to determining the suitabilit...

Changing remuneration practices and methods are issues that advertising agencies are facing. Fixed commission of around 15 per cent was the traditional practice but fee or cost-based methods are becoming more common. The article investigates the prevalent advertising agency remuneration patterns in various countries; the frequency of their use, the...

Achieving development in the non-industrialized world is an objective for not only the developing countries of the world, but also for the industrialized countries whose own well-being is tied to the economic growth of the developing economies. Research studies have dealt with the economic development of developing countries from various points of...