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Managers often see new organizational design as the solution to many problems. This paper explores the relationship between organization structure (design), functioning of organizations, and effectiveness. A study of 320 companies showed that the structural variable, decentralization, marginally...
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Strong market orientation is essential to firm success. In the diverse and dynamic digital environment, a strong market orientation philosophy is even more important to the digital entrepreneur. We explore the advantages and challenges that the networked world offers the market-oriented digital...
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Microfinance institutions (MFIs) target poor people, excluded from the banking system. By giving them starting capital, they should thus enable a greater number of women to create their own business, but also in sectors traditionally reserved for men due to the initial capital they require. Our...
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organization. Finally, we discuss several directions for future research in this increasingly important area of innovation and …
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innovation by enabling firms to invest in promising new R&D projects as soon as they are discovered, or to maintain R&D during … uncertainty, thus driving more commercially valuable innovation. This is one of the few studies providing empirical evidence of …
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Valley, respectively, these IC firms can easily imitate any innovation through the interactions among intra-industry firms …. The contribution of intra-industry innovation development to firms' technological advancement is defined as the "spillover … effect". This paper compares how the innovation characteristics and industrial clustering influence the spillover effects …
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Innovation is of vital importance, not only to commercial companies, but also to governments. For the Dutch, innovation … evaluation of a water innovation program carried out by the Dutch government, using the cyclic innovation model, shows that there … is a broad understanding of innovation, that innovators see innovation as a significant break from the "old" and …
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Higher education and community partnerships have transitioned from casual relationships to more of a mandate with the advancements in technology and globalization. The result of this large-scale change has led to an increase in these efforts, but the relationships are still emerging. Using...
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This paper examines the role of several learning mechanisms for innovation performance, particularly their relevance … for different types of innovation. Although the innovation drivers have been extensively discussed in the literature, more … evidence is needed to verify that specific innovation outputs rely on specific knowledge sources. Based on the European …
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The paper discusses the relationship between learning, innovation and (institutional) reflexivity. It is often held … that reflexivity is a crucial factor for learning and innovation processes. However, a rather formalistic approach to … also inhibit innovation. This is especially the case when reflexive tools are abused to push performance only. In order to …
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