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China's increasing international prominence has prompted additional research on how Chinese firms manage organizational crises. The purpose of this paper is to identify patterns of concerns and experiences with crises in China. We report on a survey of 105 managers and non-managers in China about their experience and concern with crises in their firms. Our analysis underscores three key findings. First, one's concern about a crisis is strongly associated with one's experience involving that crisis. Second, views about crisis experience and concern differ between employees in state-owned enterprises (SOEs) and non-SOEs. Finally, despite these differences, perspectives on crisis training among SOE and non-SOE firms are similar. This paper augments the literature by identifying relationships among crisis experience, crisis concern, and training in Chinese organizations. Keywords: Crisis management, crisis training, China, SOE, behavioral economics., Introduction Firms with managers that anticipate and manage crises effectively tend to outperform their peers (Bhaduri, 2019; Bowers et al., 2017; Gallagher, 2017). Effective crisis planning, preparation, and training can [...]

The growth of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) is a multilevel phenomenon. However, scant research has examined its antecedents at both the country and firm levels. This study examines the effects of both country-level institutional quality and firm characteristics (i.e., firm age, state ownership, and management experience) on firm growth. The sample includes nearly 1,800 SMEs from 12 countries in the World Bank s Management, Organization, and Innovation (MOI) database. Government effectiveness, political stability, and the absence of violence were positively associated with firm growth. Unexpectedly, control of corruption was negatively associated with firm growth. Younger and non-state-owned enterprises grew faster than older state-owned firms. Management experience did not influence firm growth. This study underscores the need lor governments to provide political, economic, and social stability as a precursor to SME growth. Keywords: SMEs; growth; institutions; firm age; management experience; state ownership Field of specialization: Entrepreneurship, Since Penrose (1959), entrepreneurship and strategy research has focused on resources and contextual drivers of firm growth (Levinthal and Wu, 2010). However, small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) growth is a [...]

The "Capstone" business strategy simulation has been used in business schools throughout the world. Scholars have investigated the impact of "Capstone" and other simulations on student learning, but there are no published studies that investigate factors associated with success. This study examines the performance of 7,347 participants using "Capstone" in 2019. Results suggest an optimal team size of four students. Overall, teams performed better in the competition mode than in the footrace mode, and better in official rounds than in practice rounds. Completion of training modules was associated with improved team performance in some but not all instances.

The co-authors of this paper hereby state their intention to work together to launch the Genomic Observatories Network (GOs Network) for which this document will serve as its Founding Charter. We define a Genomic Observatory as an ecosystem and/or site subject to long-term scientific research, including (but not limited to) the sustained study of genomic biodiversity from single-celled microbes to multicellular organisms.An international group of 64 scientists first published the call for a global network of Genomic Observatories in January 2012. The vision for such a network was expanded in a subsequent paper and developed over a series of meetings in Bremen (Germany), Shenzhen (China), Moorea (French Polynesia), Oxford (UK), Pacific Grove (California, USA), Washington (DC, USA), and London (UK). While this community-building process continues, here we express our mutual intent to establish the GOs Network formally, and to describe our shared vision for its future. The views expressed here are ours alone as individual scientists, and do not necessarily represent those of the institutions with which we are affiliated.