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crowdsourcing and digital marketplaces are allowing firms to circumvent and defy traditional knowledge constraints. This is part of … that an important cluster of these new organizational forms are able to circumvent knowledge constraints because they … explain their efficiency relative to hierarchies and relative to each other, we take a knowledge-based perspective and review …
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Access and utilization of knowledge as in alliances drives firm performance. Prior studies pay heavy attention on … knowledge absorption and knowledge transfer among firms, but less on the multifaceted and context dependent construct of mutual … knowledge creation among firms in alliances. This study explains the concept of copoiesis as the genuine creation of joint …
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knowledge that is then known …
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Tung Chung-Shu (179-104B.C.) synthesized the works of Confucius and Mencius to come up with a blueprint for the creation of civil society based on hierarchical order and moral cultivation, known as ‘San Gang Wu Chang’. ‘San Gang’ refers to the obligations attached to three key...
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Internet, par sa nature globale, apporte de nouvelles opportunités de recherche et d'affaires dans des contextes multiculturels. Or, une situation exolingue accroît le risque d’imprécision ou de confusion linguistiques. Les auteurs de cet article présentent une synthèse des méthodes...
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Companies are being forced to adopt practices and structures that will produce high quality, reliable, reasonably priced products with continuously shorter lead times. In order to meet the above goals, companies are utilizing flatter organizational structures and narrower supply chains. Breadth...
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The purpose of this paper is to propose a framework for the monitoring of new technology introduction in a B2B environment. We focus on B2B environments, i.e. on projects where a new technological solution is implemented (and often jointly developed) with a client being either a company or an...
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Based on various researches on the ERP implementation by Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) this paper has identified 5 decision areas which have a strategic impact on the success of ERP adoption by the SMEs. These decision areas are planning, acquisition, implementation, usage and percolation...
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This paper contains a model of waste elimination through design. It argues for the importance of managing design complexity in improving cost, quality, variety, and time-to-market performance variables. Management of design complexity is identified with creation, choice, and application of...
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Invention may be described as an action towards creating something new, typically a process or a device. Innovation is described as an idea and its outcome interpreted as new by individuals and also seen as a multiple application of invention. Innovators are individuals who carry out innovation,...
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