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The role of strategy in the innovation process: A stage approach.

Goktan, Ayse Banu - 2005

Organizational innovation has been of central interest in recent years because of its importance for organizational … survival and competitive advantage. Researchers in the field have divided the innovation process into stages in an attempt to … understand the innovation process and the factors that affect it. However, empirical studies that examine the relationship …

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Market orientation in production agriculture: measurement, relationships, and implications

Micheels, Eric T. - 2010

market orientation, innovation, entrepreneurship and organizational learning among Illinois beef producers, and measures the …

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The Impact of Alternative Market Orientation Strategies on Firm Performance: Customer versus Competitor Orientation

Micheels, Eric T.; Gow, Hamish R. - 2010

Research studies have differed over the importance of the relative emphasis of a customer versus competitor orientation in the development of a market orientation (Slater and Narver, 1994; Tajeddini, 2010). In this study, we assess whether the emphasis of one component over another of a market...

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Positional Advantage within Small Farms: Evidence from Illinois

Micheels, Eric T.; Gow, Hamish R. - 2009

orientation, entrepreneurship, innovation and learning are first-order indicators of positional advantage and that the positional …

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Financing Your Invention

McGraw, Greg; Ruffner, Connie; Urech, Alan W. - 2008

The federal Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program and its parallel Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR …) program provide over $2.2 billion annually to help small companies take their innovation technologies to the next level with …In 2008 Georgia Tech's Enterprise Innovation Institute and the Technology Association of Georgia (TAG) joined forces to …

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The Impact of IT Capability on Employee Capability, Customer Value, Customer Satisfaction, and Business Performance

Chae, Ho-Chang - 2009

This study empirically examines the impact of IT capability on firms' performance and evaluates whether firms' IT capabilities play a role in improving employee capability, customer value, customer satisfaction, and ultimately business performance. The results were based on comparing the...

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Performance Improvement in an Accounting Firm: Comparing Operational and Financial Data Before and After Process Redesign

Chhabra, Meeta Kaur - 2000

The case study described in this thesis involves a process improvement project in the Tax Department of a Certified Public Accounting firm. A process map was created by interviewing employees involved in the process. A process analysis identified problems and possible solutions. The Partners in...

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Interorganizational Relationships: The Effects of Organizational Efficacy on Member Firm Performance

McDowell, William C. - 2006

Relationships between the collective actors within interorganizational relationships are a growing area of research in management. Interorganizational networks continue to be a popular mechanism used by organizations to achieve greater performance. Organizations develop competencies to work with...

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Testing a model of the relationships among organizational performance, IT-business alignment and IT governance.

Sanchez Ortiz, Aurora - 2003

Information Technology (IT) is often viewed as a resource that is capable of enhancing organizational performance. However, it is difficult for organizations to measure the actual contribution of IT investments. Despite an abundance of literature, there is an insufficiency of generally...

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An analysis of voluntary annual report disclosures of outsourcing: [electronic resource] : determinants and firm performance /

Premuroso, Ronald F. - Florida Atlantic University.College of … - 2008

Outsourcing has become a significant factor in the U.S. economy over the past two decades. Annual report disclosures made by a firm related to outsourcing are voluntary disclosures. Understanding the determinants and firm performance implications of initial outsourcing annual report disclosures...

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