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Control of Relational Risk in Offshore Accounting and Finance Outsourcing: Case Evidence from UK and India

Nicholson, Brian; Aman, Aini - Manchester Business School - 2008

Many companies in USA and Western Europe are taking advantage of developments ininformation technology and outsourcing … parts of the accounting process to vendors in otherparts of the world. Offshore outsourcing of accounting presents some … concerned with the potential for an outsourcing partner’s opportunistic behaviour.... …

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Competence Development in Multinational Companies: Careers, capabilities and institutional frameworks

Whitley, Richard - Manchester Business School - 2002

Building on the work of Penrose (1959), Richardson (1960; 1972) and others, recent contributions to the theory of the firm have emphasised the importance of endogenously developed capabilities and competences for building sustained competitive advantages (see, for example, Foss and Knudsen, 1996)....

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Rethinking Strategy and Implementation of Knowledge Management from Innovation Perspective: A Lesson Learned from a Multinational Subsidiary in Indonesia

Amalia, Mirta; Nugroho, Yanuar - Manchester Business School - 2010

Facing unprecedented challenges and opportunities ahead in the knowledge economy, managing knowledge has been a priority for many organisations. Knowledge Management (KM) emerges and has quickly gained weight in research both from information systems perspective and management sciences. An amply...

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IT Outsourcing in Higher Education Institutions

Setiadi, Bowo - Manchester Business School - 2007

Higher education institutions (HEIs) have examined IT outsourcing strategies, to ensure that their IT functions could … outsourcing issues within the HE context, including why they decide to outsource, what IT functions need to be outsourced, what … adopting outsourcing strategies to enhance IT cost effectiveness, to focus on their core competencies, to access new knowledge …

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Science, Standards and Infrastructure Provision through the PFI – a case study of the National Physical Laboratory

Boden, Rebecca; Cox, Deborah - Manchester Business School - 2009

This paper utilises evidence from the first collapse of a private finance initiative in the UK, that of the National Physical Laboratory, to examine the reality of PFIs in contrast to the rhetoric presented by government...

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Information, Learning and ICT supported Decision-making

Antonacopoulou, Elena; Papamichail, Nadia - Manchester Business School - 2002

In recent years notions like the ‘learning society’, ‘knowledge economy’, ‘information society’ have populated management and organisation debates, particularly as knowledge and learning are increasingly promoted as the new sources of wealth (Ball, 1991; Drucker, 1993). Moreover, a trend...

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The Governance of Knowledge in Academic Spin-offs

Rizzo, Ugo - Manchester Business School - 2010

The aim of the present work is to study the evolution of organizational knowledge within Academic Spin-off (ASO) firms throughout their life cycle. The exploitation of tacit and indivisible new knowledge developed in the context of academic institutions entails agency problems of different...

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Out of Sight: Problem Sequences and Epistemic Boundaries of Medical Know-How on Glaucoma

Consoli, Davide; Ramlogan, Ronnie - Manchester Business School - 2008

This paper analyses the process of knowledge growth in a branch of medical science. Our study of scientific advances in glaucoma research is organized in two parts. In the first we present a qualitative overview of the problem sequences that have characterized 150 years of medical research in...

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Knowledge, Understanding and the Dynamics of Medical Innovation

Ramlogan, Ronnie; Consoli, David - Manchester Business School - 2008

This paper investigates the processes by which scientific knowledge is created andlegitimized. It focuses on scientific developments in a branch of medicine and exploresthe pathways through which the growth of knowledge enables advances in medicalscience and in clinical practice. This work draws...

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Localized Appropriability: Pecuniary Externalities in Knowledge Exploitation

Antonelli, Cristiano - Manchester Business School - 2008

Pecuniary externalities are crucial in shaping the strategies to value the distinctivecompetences and the economic success of innovative firms. The analysis of conditions forlocalized knowledge appropriation and exploitation makes it possible to identify idiosyncratic production factors....

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