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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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Sequence of thinking and acting in strategy making

Vilà, Joaquim; Canales, Juan I. - IESE Business School, Universidad de Navarra - 2001

This paper gives an answer to the continuing emergent-deliberate debate. Thinking and acting are two outstanding features of this controversy. What is needed in the field is a framework that can explain under what circumstances each of these two features takes place along the strategy-making...

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Governance changes in strategic alliances: Antecedents of contractual renegotiations

Reuer, Jeffrey J.; Ariño, Africa - IESE Business School, Universidad de Navarra - 2000

This study provides an empirical investigation of the incidence and antecedents of contractual renegotiations in strategic alliances. We bring together initial conditions based on transaction cost theory and ex post contingencies highlighted by recent conceptual and qualitative research on the...

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Internacionalización vía alianzas estratégicas en la empresa familiar

Ariño, Africa; Gallo, Miguel Angel; Cappuyns, Kristin - IESE Business School, Universidad de Navarra - 2002

Este estudio de carácter exploratorio sobre la internacionalización a través de alianzas estratégicas, pretende conocer los factores determinantes que facilitaron a las empresas familiares españolas su entrada en mercados emergentes. Los resultados muestran, en primer lugar, que hay tres...

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Strategic thinking: Strategy as a shared framework in the mind of managers.

Masifern, Esteban; Vilà, Joaquim - IESE Business School, Universidad de Navarra - 2002

Even though most academics,business people and consultants recognize that the purpose of strategy formulation can no longer be to generate strategic plans,critics of formal strategic planning offer little guidance on how to overcome its limitations and rarely address CEOs 'concerns about turning...

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Roles played by relational trust in strategic alliances

Ariño, Africa; de la Torre, Jose; Ring, Peter S. - IESE Business School, Universidad de Navarra - 2001

In this paper we develop the concept of relational quality as a proxy for relational trust. Exploration of data from 67 alliances confirms that relational quality is composed of three elements: initial conditions, partner interactions, and external events. We offer propositions on the relative...

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