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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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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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Distributed Innovation Processes (DIPs) and the Dynamics of Knowledge Tradability

Gee, Sally - Manchester Business School - 2010

This paper draws on two extensive case studies to explore how the co-production and exchange of knowledge is organised during innovative activity. In the empirical cases multiple, transient innovation systems emerge, and self organise, around a particular problem. The emergence and evolution of...

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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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Strategic Adjustment Between Innovation andProduction: Generation of Integrated Archetypesin Spanish Service Firms

Hortelano, Dioni Elche; Moreno, Ângela González - Manchester Business School - 2008

This paper investigates empirically the strategic alignment between innovation andproduction strategies in a sample of service firms in Spain. It employs the integratedarchetypes approach to analyse a dataset of unique, manually collected, firm responses....

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Institutional entrepreneurship in constructing alternative paths: a comparison of biotech hybrids

Divito de Paauw, Lori - Manchester Business School - 2009

This paper investigates how firms adapt their innovation strategies to cope with constraints in national institutional environments. It is a comparative case study of Dutch and British dedicated biotechnology firms focusing on a particular type of strategy, the hybrid model. Patterns of skill...

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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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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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Systems of Innovation and Industry Evolution: the Case of Retail Banking in the UK

Consoli, Davide - Manchester Business School - 2007

This paper presents a longitudinal study on the evolution of the retail banking sector in the United Kingdom (UK) following the adoption of automated payments in the 1970s. The analysis is cast in the context of innovation studies and looks at the process of industry evolution by highlighting...

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Defence Procurement, Innovation and the National Innovation System

Hall, Peter - Manchester Business School - 2007

This paper is about the implications of a nation’s approach to defence procurement for its national innovation system and the innovation that occurs within it. Defence procurement involves choices over what is to be purchased (the product), from whom it should be bought (the producer), and how...

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