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Information technology (IT) innovation research examines the organizational and technological factors that determine IT … by focusing on information requirements as a driver of IT innovation adoption and diffusion. Our framework of IT … innovation diffusion incorporates three industry-level sources of information requirements: process complexity, clock speed and …
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market orientation, innovation, entrepreneurship and organizational learning among Illinois beef producers, and measures the …
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The aim of this thesis is to understand what drives the evolution of industrial networks and how such understanding can be used to stimulate sustainable development. A complex adaptive systems perspective has been adopted to analyse the complex interaction between organisational behaviour and...
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This chapter critically analyses and assesses the concept and development of Web 2.0 within small to medium sized enterprises (SMEs). Web 2.0 is changing the way that business can be conducted, offering SMEs opportunities for developing strategies, business models and supply chains whilst adding...
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Invasive alien trees and shrubs pose significant threats to biodiversity and ecosystem services in South African fynbos ecosystems. An ambitious initiative, the Working for Water program, commenced in 1995 to reduce the extent and impact of plant invasions. Despite substantial progress, the...
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Cointegration techniques are applied to a model of induced innovation based on the two-stage Constant Elasticity of … price shocks. Thus, the Induced Innovation Hypothesis (IIH) may explain long-run transformations like the mechanical and …
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This paper investigates the impact of returnee entrepreneurs and their knowledge spillovers on innovation in high … entrepreneurs create a significant spillover effect that promotes innovation in other local high-tech firms. The extent of this … employees. Multinational enterprises' R&D activities positively affect the innovation intensity of non-returnee firms only when …
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This study contributes to our understanding of the innovation process by bringing attention to and investigating the … process by which innovators outside of firms obtain innovation-related resources and assistance. This study is the first to … innovations from fellow community members. We find that innovation-related information and assistance, as well as the innovations …
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in excess of the minimum necessary to produce a given level of organizational output (Geiger & Cashen, 2002). Innovation … fosters innovation, has not been answered unambiguously so far, since researchers deliver convincing arguments for both … standpoints. Against this backdrop, the study seeks to explain the relationship between organizational slack and innovation in …
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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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