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Impact of the types of clusters on the innovation output and the appropriation of rents from innovation

Ferreira, Manuel Portugal; Serra, Fernando Ribeiro; … - Departamento de Gestão e Economia, Instituto … - 2013

The ability to generate innovations and capture the rents from innovation are important for firmsâ€™ competitive … innovation output, the knowledge flows among the clustered firms and, ultimately, on who captures the rents from innovation. The … rents from innovation. Extant research has noted that the social and business networks binding firms in clusters are …

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Brain-Based Learning: The Neurological Findings About the Human Brain that Every Teacher Should Know to be Effective

Degen, Ronald Jean - Departamento de Gestão e Economia, Instituto … - 2011

The purpose of this paper is to present the main neurological findings about the human brain that provide the basis for brain-based learning, and that represent a narrow field of cognitive science as a whole. The findings that are described were made primarily by neuroscientists who studied the...

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The RBV in International Business Studies: A bibliometric study of Barney?s (1991) contribution to the field

Ferreira, Manuel Portugal; Serra, Fernando A. Ribeiro; … - Departamento de Gestão e Economia, Instituto … - 2011

Jay Barney?s contribution to the current status of the Resource-Based View (RBV) is well accepted, in particular his 1991 article on ?Firm resources and sustained competitive advantage? has been acknowledged as one of the most significant contributions to developing the RBV. The RBV has since...

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Fordism and Taylorism are responsible for the early success and recent decline of the U.S. motor vehicle industry

Degen, Ronald Jean - Departamento de Gestão e Economia, Instituto … - 2011

This paper identifies the ways in which the ideas of Fordism and Taylorism have been responsible for the success of the U.S. motor vehicle companies until 1955, and for their subsequent decline. On three occasions, the motor vehicle industry has changed the fundamental ideas on the process of...

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Understanding the footprint of the RBV in International Business studies: The last twenty years of research

Ferreira, Manuel Portugal; Reis, Nuno Rosa; Serra, … - Departamento de Gestão e Economia, Instituto … - 2013

International business (IB) research has evolved substantially over the past four decades incorporating new concerns and theoretical contributions. During the past two decades, the Resource-Based View (RBV) has gained the preference of many IB scholars and has gradually become one of the...

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How career counseling, management coaching, and mentoring can assist in reducing today’s lack of ethics in business

Degen, Ronald Jean - Departamento de Gestão e Economia, Instituto … - 2013

This paper discusses how career counseling, management coaching, and mentoring can assist in reducing today’s lack of ethics in business by orienting future corporate leaders not only to identifying their skills, making better career choices, and becoming more productive and satisfied in their...

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Designing Modern Equity Portfolios

Degen, Ronald Jean - Departamento de Gestão e Economia, Instituto … - 2011

This aim of this paper is to describe possible ways of investing in equity; choosing the right stocks(among small-cap, large-cap, value, growth, and foreign) using fundamental analysis, defining their appropriate mix in the portfolios according to the desired return-risk profiles based on...

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Changes in governance, the market for corporate control, and the mechanisms for hostile takeovers in Continental Europe: The case of Arcelor?s takeover by Mittal Steel

Degen, Ronald Jean - Departamento de Gestão e Economia, Instituto … - 2012

This paper describes the changes in governance, the market for corporate control, and the mechanism for hostile takeovers that have occurred in the last decade in Continental Europe, using the hostile takeover of Arcelor by Mittal Steel to illustrate these changes.

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The Resource-Based Horizontal Acquisition Strategy of JBS

Degen, Ronald Jean - Departamento de Gestão e Economia, Instituto … - 2012

This paper examines the resource-based horizontal acquisition strategy of JBS. This strategy transformed a relatively small business that was founded in 1953 (comprising a butcher shop and small abattoir located in a small town in the interior of Brazil) into the world?s biggest meat producer by...

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Brain-Based Guided Experience Approach to Teaching Entrepreneurship Students the Practice of Innovation

Degen, Ronald Jean - Departamento de Gestão e Economia, Instituto … - 2012

This paper presents a new approach to coaching entrepreneurship students to practice innovation and to identify … innovation framework that was introduced by Verganti (2009) in Design-Driven Innovation. The cognitive perspective of creativity … explained by Weisberg (2006) in his book Creativity is used to show how the practice of innovation can be learned. The model …

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