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sustainability and the appropriate strategies required to improve business sustainability. In addition, there are international calls … business sustainability is being incorporated into undergraduate business and management courses in Australian universities … skills will influence the extent to which business sustainability will be achieved. The findings demonstrate that more than …
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This paper presents results of a pilot study completed as part of the BestLog (Best Practices in Logistics) project. BestLog (www.bestlog.org) is a research project initiated by the European Commission (EC) and financed from the 6th Framework Programme. One of the project goals is to identify...
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There is an increasing global interest in sustainable aviation technologies as a result of concerns associated with the carbon-intensive nature of the industry and the imminence of reaching peak oil. Available options such as biofuels, liquid hydrogen and electric propulsion will not only impact...
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) measurement: (1) Do HR practices impact business results? (2) How can HR practices add value to business performance? (3) What HR … measures can drive business performance? Using Eastman Kodak as a case study, this article identifies three paths through which … HR practices contribute to business performance: (1) by building organizational capabilities; (2) by improving employee …
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Current business conditions mandate greater competitive advantage from HR agendas and processes. To add greater … value either reactively or proactively. In its strategically reactive mode, HR assumes the existence of a business strategy … and adds value by linking HR practices to the business strategy and by managing change. In its strategically proactive …
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&D. Our theory draws on perspectives that emphasize the need to develop new competencies within a business organization and to …
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This paper develops an explanation for the mode and sequence of entry that firms select for their international research and development activities. The hypotheses are based on the internalization and evolutionary theory perspectives. I first hypothesize that there is a sequence to the mode of...
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I evaluate two processes, niche formation and resource-partitioning, that could independently account for the entry of firms into new market segments in mature industries. The niche formation argument focuses on environmental changes that promote the entry of new firms whereas the...
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This paper studies how firms use acquisitions to achieve long-term business reconfiguration. We base the study in a … routine-based perspective on business dynamics. We develop and test hypotheses concerning the relative extent of change by … between 1978 and 1995. We find that acquisitions play a major role in business reconfiguration, offering opportunities for …
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Firms often lose their competitive advantage when a technological change renders their existing capabilities obsolete. An important question that has received little or no attention is, what happens to these firms’ competitive advantage when the technological change instead renders obsolete...
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