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Virtual R & D teams in small and medium enterprises: A literature review
Ale Ebrahim, Nader; Ahmed, Shamsuddin; Taha, Zahari - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) are the driving engine behind economic growth. While SMEs play a critical role in generating employment and supporting trade, they face numerous challenges, the prominent among them are the need to respond to fasting time-to-market, low-cost and rapid...
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Technology Use in the Virtual R&D Teams
Ale Ebrahim, Nader; Ahmed, Shamsuddin; Hanim, Salwa; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
Problem statement: Although, literature proves the importance of the technology role in the effectiveness of virtual Research and Development (R&D) teams for new product development. However, the factors that make technology construct in a virtual R&D team are still ambiguous. The manager of...
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Innovation of international business support: a research agenda for commercial diplomacy
Visser, Robin; Ruël, Huub J.M. - In: International Journal of Diplomacy and Economy 2 (2014) 3, pp. 238-257
Commercial diplomacy plays a crucial role in the interplay between international business and international relations, yet research regarding it is limited and focuses on a macro-level international relations perspective whereas more integrative meso- and micro-level research is needed. This...
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Le Web 2.0 comme nouveau paradigme de l’entreprise ?
Tran, Sébastien - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2012
The proliferation of articles in the press, the media, and on the Internet demonstrate a real interest in the Web 2.0 phenomenon. The concept can be seen as a new step in the development of the Internet network as evidenced by its “2.0” label, in opposition to Web 1.0. All the same, it is...
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Systèmes d'innovation et communautés de connaissances dans le secteur agricole et agroalimentaire
Touzard, Jean-Marc; Temple, Ludovic; Faure, Guy; … - In: Innovations n° 43 (2014) 1, pp. 13-38
This article examines how research on agriculture and agribusiness mobilizes the concept of Innovation System (IS). The … uses of this concept. Based on this framework, a bibliometric analysis on international scientific journals in innovation … innovation and IS in this sector. The current challenge is to promote exchanges between these communities, particularly between …
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FACTORS INFLUENCING AN ORGANISATION'S ABILITY TO MANAGE INNOVATION: A STRUCTURED LITERATURE REVIEW AND CONCEPTUAL MODEL
SMITH, MARISA; BUSI, MARCO; BALL, PETER; MEER, ROBERT … - In: International Journal of Innovation Management (ijim) 12 (2008) 04, pp. 655-676
Management literature prescribes innovation as a stimulus for sustained competitive advantage in companies; however … on the body of literature concerned with the factors which influence innovation management in organisations. The aim of … this research is to present a holistic view of the factors that affect innovation management. Using a systematic literature …
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Recent Developments and Future Prospects on Sustainable Human Resource Management: Introduction to the Special Issue
Ehnert, Ina; Harry, Wes - In: management revue. Socio-economic Studies 23 (2012) 3, pp. 221-238
In this editorial the previous and current state of studies in the subject of sustainability are considered and the role of HRM examined. Particular attention is drawn to the range of definitions of ‘sustainability’ and to prior approaches to Sustainable HRM. The difficulties of studying the...
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Science and Technology Parks impacts on tenant organisations: a review of literature
Albahari, Alberto; Pérez-Canto, Salvador; Landoni, Paolo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
Sixty years after the establishment of the first science park at Stanford University, Science and Technology Parks (STPs) have reached a worldwide diffusion. Many papers have discussed parks’ role in promoting new technology-based firms (NTBFs) and their impacts on firms’ performances, often...
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Risky innovation: The impact of internal and external R&D strategies upon the distribution of returns
Mata, José; Woerter, Martin - In: Research Policy 42 (2013) 2, pp. 495-501
External innovation increases the profits of the median firm, but also increases dispersion and the kurtosis of the … evidence that the rewards from innovation are positively skewed, we find no effect of innovation strategies upon the skewness …
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The Determinants of Corporate Growth
Rosique, Francisco - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
Corporate Growth is a concept that has been widely treated in a specific way or as part of strategy theories, in definition and in econometric models and has also been studied in many different aspects and approaches. The author describes in depth the main variables affecting corporate growth...
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