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In this conceptual paper we investigate how corporate venturing influences an organization’s competences. The impact of various types of corporate ventures on the portfolio of strategic options of a firm’s competence modes (Sanchez, 2004a; Sanchez and Heene, 2002) will be assessed by...
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This paper examines the effects of innovation on the survival of manufacturing firms in the Netherlands. The … demographics of firms according to their innovative performance and type of innovation are traced by using the Business Register … population of all firms active in the Netherlands and the Community Innovation Survey. Through estimation of a parametric …
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Large-scale strategic change projects in companies may be supported by using alliance networks. This paper shows that IBM’s change from an exploitation strategy towards an exploration strategy required a radically different network strategy as well. By entering into more non-equity alliances,...
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) variables specifically relevant for intra-firm analyses of innovation acceptance. The hypotheses are tested using data from …
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entrepreneurship with respect to economic performance. This paper uses the knowledge spillover theory to explain different innovation …-to-the-market innovation but has no effect on the relationship between knowledge and new-to-the-firm innovation. Our results using European … chances that knowledge will become new-to-the-market innovation. The findings highlight the importance of Schumpeterian …
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Innovation is an important area of management theory, but there is a paucity of research on innovation in project based … current managerial challenges. In this paper we research innovation in twenty project based firms. We identify three key areas … of innovation from the theoretical literature and conduct empirical research, discovering (1) whether project based firms …
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to an organization’s innovation. …
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What kind of innovative competences are credibly developed by private entrepreneurs in China’s transition economy? On the basis of original empirical fieldwork in 45 software enterprises in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, we propose a working theory of innovative competence development in an...
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Existing studies of supplier involvement in new product development have mainly focused on project-related short-term processes and success-factors. This study validates and extends an existing exploratory framework, which comprises both long-term strategic processes and short-term operational...
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The study provides theoretical insights and empirical evidence on the emergence of different types and degrees of entrepreneurial innovativeness. The results suggest that entrepreneurial innovativeness depends both on individual factors and on the environment in which the individual lives. In...
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