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conforming to industry norms and different by implementing innovation, leading to high performance. The primary rationale is that … innovation. It also suggests that firms in the industry with high volatility have difficulties in managing optimal … distinctiveness of strategic conformity with innovation. …
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In order to improve innovation performance, it is necessary to analyze a series of processes that are connected to … innovation performance, as well as R&D input. Since industrial characteristics affect innovation performance, the differences …&D capabilities and absorptive capacities on innovation using a structural equation model for Korean manufacturing companies, and …
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For the past decade, Industry 4.0 has become the basis for building competitive advantage for business operations. The key technologies of Industry 4.0 are implemented in enterprises of various industries. This paper focuses on presenting the results of research on the influence of the Industry...
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This study explores Industry 4.0 in the Australian context, where manufacturing is dominated by smaller firms servicing the domestic market. We interviewed 20 advanced Australian manufacturers from diverse fields, capturing detailed descriptions of the Industry 4.0 implementation process. We...
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The Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB) is a useful framework that helps explain people's behavior across a wide range of settings. The present study adopted the TPB to investigate factors that affect the complexity of the learning intention of workers involved with a lean manufacturing training...
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The adoption of Smart Manufacturing Systems in manufacturing companies is often seen as a strategy towards achieving improvements in productivity. However, there is little evidence to indicate that UK manufacturing SMEs are prepared for the implementation of such systems. Through the employment...
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investments has been under-researched. This study aims to investigate whether corporate innovation is linked to the maturity of … find that longer-term contracts are positively related to firm propensity of innovation. However, only contracts with … for domestic suppliers in a developing country. Interestingly, longer contracts do not tend to facilitate firm innovation …
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Innovation has been and continues to be an important theme in management literature, and almost any improvement upon … the status quo could be regarded as some sort of innovation. Such an improvement could be made in terms of an increase of … innovation as a management concept in the context of a physical product or technology and studies innovation from a longitudinal …
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This study aims to examine the impacts of firm constraints and proactive innovation on firm performance, using a sample … two categories of proactive and reactive ones, we find that reactive innovation negatively affects firm performance …
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connected factories. DT is not only a technology-driven innovation approach: it also requires changes of the Business Model (BM … Business Model Innovation (BMI) process. To address this gap, this paper analyses the DT journey of several Swedish medium and …
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