Der Hype um 3D-Drucken hat mittlerweile den Höhepunkt erreicht: Deutliche Kostensenkungen bei 3D-Druckern, breitere Möglichkeiten des Materialeinsatzes und das Auslaufen kritischer Patente haben die Dynamik in diesem Feld beschleunigt. Industrielles 3D-Drucken hat sich in den letzten beiden...

This paper focuses on the Ink Jet Printing (IJP) industry in the vicinity of Cambridge, UK, and explores the emergence and maturation of a knowledge-based cluster of activity. The discussion is organised in terms of the origins and progeny of the firms in the cluster and their business...

This paper integrates and extends the literatures on industry evolution and dominant firms to develop a dynamic theory of dominant and fringe competitive interaction in a segmented industry. It argues that a dominant firm, seeing contraction of growth in its current segment, enters new segments...

In 1954, Drucker boldly declared that organizations have only two basic functions, marketing and innovation. While true for any organization, this insight is particularly pertinent for technology-based businesses. The complicated environment surrounding high-tech companies creates a great need...

The article discusses the question of management and managing, focusing on the changes which took place in the period from Taylor to Drucker. In this period two turning points dramatically changed the nature of management. Management which started within the organization was at first concerned...

Purpose – The main aim of this paper is to analyze the relationship between innovation and economic growth, following the Schumpeter approach, considering the entrepreneurship activity. Design/methodology/approach – Several hypotheses are tested considering three equations, for the case of...

Purpose - The purpose of the paper is to present a provocative view of what Peter Drucker would be writing about today in his self-described role as a social ecologist. Design/methodology/approach – The paper uses Drucker's qualitative framework to ask what changes that contravene conventional...

Purpose – Current headlines depicting the billion dollar government bailouts of some of the world's largest business corporations suggest that a new paradigm of management is needed. This paper seeks to propose that the management theory of Peter F. Drucker and certain Aristotelian concepts,...

Purpose – The purpose of the paper is to present a provocative view of what Peter Drucker would be writing about today in his self‐described role as a social ecologist. Design/methodology/approach – The paper uses Drucker's qualitative framework to ask what changes that contravene...

Markups are often much higher on aftermarket products than on corresponding durable goods. Many theoretical explanations of this phenomenon have been advanced, but little empirical work has tested them. Using data on laser printer toner and memory pricing, this paper sheds some empirical light...

In a recent paper in Business Ethics Quarterly Professor Jeffrey Moriarty (2005) asserted the relevance of political philosophy to business ethics. Moriarty asked whether "businesses ought to be run (more) like states" and argued why that might be beneficial. This paper on the contrary asserts...

Acknowledges Peter Drucker's place as a guru in management theory or business trend, well ahead of his peers. Discusses his part in developing the idea of privatization in the UK, as far back as 1970, in a Conservative Party policy document. Posits that management's biggest challenge is ‘what...