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This paper studies the context of market orientation and the contribution of customer knowledge, networking, and … personal interviews with follow-up questions. The study highlights the importance of customer knowledge, networking, and … the role of market sensing as customer knowledge, networking, and cultural knowledge strengthen the market orientation of …
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From the extant research in international human resource management it is evident that women are not progressing to senior international management positions at comparable rates to their male counterparts. Previous research has estimated that only 3 percent of expatriate managers are women. This...
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perceived environmental uncertainty, domestic and foreign networking, and export performance. Design/methodology/approach – A … significant driver of domestic networking activities of SMEs. While domestic networking did not have a significant influence …, foreign networking showed a significant positive impact on SMEs' export performance. Firm size was found to have positive …
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Purpose – With Sweden and Europe and the present and the future as vantage points, the purpose of this paper is to challenge the viability of customer centricity (or customer orientation) and its axiom, the marketing concept, as the basis for marketing and profitability....
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Purpose – Business innovation comes from combining, recombining and modifying existing ideas, knowledge and know‐how in new ways. The purpose of this paper is to describe an approach to accelerating the business innovation process by priming the combining and recombining process, called the...
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introduction of the collaborative strategy in the Taiwanese shoe industry. Design/methodology/approach – Literature review in the … specific relationship investment has become a hinder strategy for Taiwanese organization to maintain the business relationship …. This paper introduces an interesting collaborative strategy between three parties, the original equipment manufacturer (OEM …
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Purpose – Networking is an important managerial skill and small businesses and businesses that are operated in informal … investigate the current level of networking skills and to determine the perceptions of entrepreneurs of their current networking … relationships. The tourism industry, which is regarded as a people's industry, needs high levels of networking skills to meet …
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The objective of this paper is to examine changes in the European car industry and in particular the impact these changes are having on the car makers and their relationships with their suppliers. With excess production capacity and the poor outlook for car sales, the European car industry...
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This paper explores the impact of national culture on the performance of the foreign affiliates in Greece, a country which belongs to the economic periphery of the European Union. Greece is characterised by low internationalisation and competitiveness, and has been clustered by Hofstede in the...
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The past two decades have been characterized as a time of merger mania. Unprecedented numbers of consolidations have occurred. Paradoxically these mergers have typically failed to achieve the targeted results. From a general point of view, the financial track record of recent mergers is, in...
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