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This paper makes a case for the value of looking at culture and multinationals from a management and organizational … perspective because it is one which could direct greater attention towards culture as a significant factor in future investigation … ways than one. This paper is based on selected materials from a qualitative study of culture and learning in organizations …
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culture and learning in organizations based on observations of and open-ended interviews with Dutch and Thai employees working …, became its indispensible trademark. The case illustrates how the three levels of culture – national, organizational, and … on how this case and our interpretation of it illuminate the complex role culture can play in the dynamics of strategic …
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We examine three theories of caste and community using new data on social networks among residents of a south Indian village. The first theory treats individual caste groups as separated communities driven by the Brahmanical ideology of hierarchy based on purity and pollution. The second theory...
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business R&D location for Canada. …
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In this paper we evaluate the effectiveness of R&D tax incentives in Quebec, using manufacturing firm data from 1997 to 2003 originating from R&D surveys, annual surveys of manufactures and administrative data. The estimated price elasticity of R&D is -0.10 in the short run and -0.14 in the long...
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innovation within the wine cluster in the Niagara Peninsula in Canada. A variety of policies shape the parameters (financial …This paper applies an innovation system framework to analyze the development of a natural resource-based system of …, fiscal, legal) within which opportunities for innovation open or are constrained and choices are made. Two of these have led …
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within the context of technological innovation. We differentiate among a firm's direct ties, indirect ties and degree of …
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governance view of collaboration, and test these on an extensive panel dataset of innovation-active Dutch firms during 1996 … value chain integration in innovation processes. Positive interrelation also exists in vertical alliances, as immediate past …
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Mobile remittances have a high development potential as they hold the promise of providing quick, easy and cheap money transfers. In Africa mobile phone usage has increased sharply and mobile banking providers are extending their services, enabling greater opportunities for mobile remittances....
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been known for many years about the way innovation takes place and finds that many of the shortcomings of RIU in Asia were … precisely because lessons from previous research on agricultural innovation were "not put into use" in the programme … research: (i) Promoting research into use requires enabling innovation. This goes beyond fostering collaboration, and includes …
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