New Articles – Business Administration and Management

WHAT DO MEMBERS EXPECT FROM CLUSTER MEMBERSHIP? THE CASE OF THE CROATIAN WOOD CLUSTER

Ivan-Damir Anić, Ivana Rašić, Zoran Aralica

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the composition of services and firms in a wood industrial cluster based on members’ interests and examine the differences among the groups. Since firms have very different interests when joining the cluster, this paper develops the taxonomy of cluster members based on their expectations regarding services and investigates the differences and similarities among groups in firms’ characteristics, their resources, innovative activities, the performance…

DOI (& full text): doi.org/10.15240/tul/001/2022-2-004 more

MANAGING COMMUNICATION AND PARTICIPATION IN CANARY ISLAND FIRMS

Zamira Acosta Rubio, Jaime Febles Acosta, Audrius Banaitis, Fernando A. F. Ferreira

Business organizations and management encompass a wide range of aspects requiring research and analysis. Two key issues are communications management and employee participation promotion within firms. This study focused on the variables of communication and participation in organizational structure, business decision making, transmission of orders, supervision, and control in small and micro-enterprises in the Canary Islands, Spain. The research examined the two variables’ ability to generate…

DOI (& full text): doi.org/10.15240/tul/001/2022-2-005 more