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Business model innovation: Creating value in times of change

Amit, Raphael; Zott, Christoph - IESE Business School, Universidad de Navarra - 2010

We highlight business model innovation as a way for general managers and entrepreneurs to create and appropriate value …, especially in times of economic change. Business model innovation, which involves designing a modified or new activity system …&D. We offer managers and researchers a conceptual primer on business model innovation emphasizing the importance of system …

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Change, growth and learning

Agulles, Remei; Prats, Maria Julia - IESE Business School, Universidad de Navarra - 2012

Companies desiring to keep and improve their competitive advantage must be flexible enough to undergo change when needed. Meaningful change requires the ability to learn from their own as well as from others' experience. But learning is not easy, and there are many factors that may prevent it to...

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Human resource management implications of new forms of organizing

Sanchez-Runde, Carlos; Whittington, Richard; … - IESE Business School, Universidad de Navarra - 2000

Adopting a process view, we explore the personnel (HRM) implications of new forms of organizing (NFOs). We review the characteristics of NFOs and explain how they require a renewed HRM approach. We illustrate the HRM approach with preliminary results from a European comparative study, and...

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Institutional and anthropological theories of leadership: Bridging a gap of 40 years, The

Caparas, Victoria; Chinchilla, Nuria - IESE Business School, Universidad de Navarra - 2000

The paper explores the similarities and differences between Selznick's institutional leadership theory and Pérez López's anthropological leadership model, while underscoring the significance of their thought to contemporary research questions in mainstream leadership studies. The paper is...

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Ethical funds as a tool for promoting ethics in business

Argandoña, Antonio; Sarsa, Domingo - IESE Business School, Universidad de Navarra - 2000

Studies on ethical funds have usually focused on how to establish criteria for choosing stock in which to invest, which are the most commonly used criteria, ethical funds' relative return, the unique features of their management, etc. In contrast, this paper focuses on deeper dimensions of the...

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Consumption of management publications, The

Alvarez, Jose L.; Maza, Carmelo - IESE Business School, Universidad de Navarra - 2000

This paper focuses on the consumption phase of the process of Production-Diffusion-Consumption of management knowledge. We argue that consumers play an important role in that process, one we feel has been overlooked in most of the existing literature. The first part of the paper is mostly...

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Optimal project rejection and new firm start-ups

Cassiman, Bruno; Ueda, Masako - IESE Business School, Universidad de Navarra - 2002

rate, firm focus, firm growth, industry growth and innovation. We also obtain some counter-intuitive results, such as that …

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Sustainable development and sustainability of competitive advantage: A dynamic and sustainable view of the firm.

Ricart, Joan E.; Rodríguez, Miguel A.; Sanchez, Pablo - IESE Business School, Universidad de Navarra - 2002

, capabilities and activities, fostering the persistence of competitive advantages based on knowledge and innovation. The authors …

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National business environments: A proposed framework

Quintanilla, Javier - IESE Business School, Universidad de Navarra - 2000

Research into countries' business patterns -a very relevant subject in today's world- would not be complete without a suitable framework to sustain it. This paper aims to provide academics and managers with a useful tool in the form of a model for analysing the distinctive features of a...

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Internet recruiting power: Opportunities and effectiveness

Pin, Jose R.; Laorden, Miriam; Saenz-Diez, Inés - IESE Business School, Universidad de Navarra - 2001

Recruiting via the Internet, or e-Recruitment, is a phenomenon that has led to the appearance of a new market in which there is an unprecedented level of interaction between employers and potential employees. In this paper we describe the actual and emergent models in the e-Recruitment market,...

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