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HRM research in China : looking back and looking forward
Lamond, David; Zheng, Connie - 2010
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of the field of human resource management (HRM) in China, with insights drawn from recent times to several millennia earlier, with a view to informing the further work that needs to be done to better understand managing people in...
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Innovation models and the front-end of product innovation
Van Zyl, Hillet - 2006
This thesis explores the innovation survival issue. As role players in an increasinglyglobal marketplace, businesses … acknowledge that regular and constant innovation isthe key to remaining competitive. In other words, in order to be successful … opportunities. The study also investigatesthe difficulties and risks associated with innovation activities.Secondly, with the goal …
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Innovation focused on the base of pyramid : the case of an African telecommunications company
Van Rooyen, Gert Willem - 2007
sustainable innovations alone, but need toinvest in disruptive innovations as well.The innovation theories hold that the best …
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How Innovation Traits in Members of Advertising Agency Teams Propel the Creative Process: The Professional Opinion
Stadler, Christopher J. - 2011
judged by individual performance on a scale to measure cognitive style. Effie Awards were not associated with innovation in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009447341
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Changing Times: A study of change management and institutional innovation within theatre organizations
Drew, Gretchen E. - 2011
implemented institutional innovation, andhighlighting methods of change management within their structure. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009447423
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Explaining variations in the knowledge economy in three small wealthy countries
Parker, Rachel - 2004
At a broad level, it has been shown that different institutional contexts, policy regimes and business systems affect the kinds of activities in which a nation specialises. This paper is concerned with the way in which different national business systems affect the nature of participation of a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009447871
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Dual paths to performance: the impact of global pressures on MNC subsidiary conduct and performance
Venaik, S.; Midgley, D. F.; Devinney, T. M. - 2005
and innovation play in determining multinational and multinational subsidiary performance. The present research seeks to … understand the organizational paths leading to such desirable outcomes as greater learning, increased innovation and improved … subsidiary autonomy and innovation. A particular feature of these findings is that they can be shown to be robust after …
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Systemic absorptive capacity: creating early-to-market returns through R&D alliances
Newey, Lance R.; Shulman, Arthur D. - 2004
For most complex emergent technologies, product-market success depends on efficient linkages between changing lead innovators within the R&D process. In this paper, our unit of analysis is a complex high technology product and the system of alliance linkages formed to progress a product through...
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Inter-temporal Effect of Technological Capabilities on Firm Performance: a Longitudinal Study of the U.s. Computed Tomography Industry (1972-2002)
Chopra, Ankush - 2007
In this dissertation, I investigate how capabilities drive firm performance as an industry evolves. I show that in spite of significant research on firm capabilities, we do not understand whether technological capabilities continue to drive firm performance as an industry evolves or whether they...
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Finding Optimal Targets for Change Agents: A Computer Simulation of Innovation Diffusion
Maienhofer, Dirk; Finholt, Thomas A. - 2002
We introduce a diffusion of innovation model based on a network threshold approach. Realistic network and threshold … are a second threshold for innovation rejection and a memory that allows actors to take trends into account. Computer … of good targets can accelerate innovation diffusion. …
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