Consumers' attitudes towards online and mobile banking in China

S Laforet, X Li - International journal of bank marketing, 2005 - emerald.com
The aim of this study is to investigate the market status for online/mobile banking in China.
With the recent and forecasted high growth of Chinese electronic banking, it has the …

China's outward foreign direct investment: Location choice and firm ownership

B Ramasamy, M Yeung, S Laforet - Journal of world business, 2012 - Elsevier
This article evaluates the international location decisions made by public listed Chinese firms
during the period 2006–2008, using a Poisson count data regression model. Further, we …

Size, strategic, and market orientation affects on innovation

S Laforet - Journal of business Research, 2008 - Elsevier
Based on a random sample of 500 South Yorkshire non-hi-tech manufacturing small,
medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) the quantitative findings support the hypothesis that size, …

Innovative characteristics of small manufacturing firms

S Laforet, J Tann - Journal of Small Business and Enterprise …, 2006 - emerald.com
The purpose of the paper is two‐fold: one, to focus on a specific industry–the manufacturing
industry. In response to recent criticisms research in small to medium‐sized enterprises (…

A framework of organisational innovation and outcomes in SMEs

S Laforet - International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behavior & …, 2011 - emerald.com
The purpose of this paper is to examine innovation in small and medium‐sized enterprises (SMEs),
and develop a comprehensive theoretical framework of how innovation occurs, the …

Organizational innovation outcomes in SMEs: Effects of age, size, and sector

S Laforet - Journal of World business, 2013 - Elsevier
Innovation studies concentrate on factors contributing to innovation. However, governments
seek clearer understanding of innovation outcomes in their appraisal of the costs and …

Managing brand portfolios: how the leaders do it

S Laforet, J Saunders - Journal of Advertising Research, 1994 - go.gale.com
Brand management in the US and Europe has become increasingly more complex, with
strategies such as brand acquisition, umbrella branding and brand extension being more widely …

Managing brand portfolios: why leaders do what they do

S Laforet, J Saunders - Journal of Advertising Research, 1999 - go.gale.com
Intense competition, emerging markets, brand extension, acquisitions, and many other activities
have left companies with a confusion of products to make and brands to manage. More …

Effects of organisational culture on organisational innovation performance in family firms

S Laforet - Journal of small business and enterprise development, 2016 - emerald.com
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the effects of organisational culture (OC) on
organisational innovation performance (OIP) in family small and medium-sized enterprises (…

Effects of size, market and strategic orientation on innovation in non‐high‐tech manufacturing SMEs

S Laforet - European Journal of Marketing, 2009 - emerald.com
Sylvie Laforet is a Lecturer in Marketing at The University of Sheffield Management
School. She has researched and … Sylvie Laforet can be contacted at: s.laforet@sheffield.ac.uk …