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Legitimizing The Natural Environment In Smes: A Strategic Issue Interpretation Perspective (Summary), Clay Dibrell, Justin Craig
Legitimizing The Natural Environment In Smes: A Strategic Issue Interpretation Perspective (Summary), Clay Dibrell, Justin Craig
Justin B. Craig
How do businesses legitimize their natural environmental strategic initiatives? In this research, we are concerned with how managerial interpretations of natural environmental issues predict natural environmental strategic action related to firm innovativeness in SMEs. Results from this study will provide managers with a greater understanding of the benefits from a natural environmental initiative. The research questions that are addressed include: (1) Does the legitimization of the natural environment in an SME positively affect firm innovativeness? (2) What benefits are associated with socially embedding natural environmental policies? and (3) How do the strategic issue and social embeddedness theories predict how a …
Desk Rejection: How To Avoid Being Hit By A Returning Boomerang, Justin B. Craig
Desk Rejection: How To Avoid Being Hit By A Returning Boomerang, Justin B. Craig
Justin B. Craig
Manuscripts are desk rejected when they do not fit the mission of the journal or are too underdeveloped to benefit from the review process. In such cases, two members of the editorial team go through the manuscript and provide a developmental letter to author or authors to advance the article further. This helps free up the time of editors and reviewers to concentrate on the most promising manuscripts.