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ties], national culture and and firms’ organizational model in the context of global ICT Industry. In the highly uncertain …
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The international automobile industry has been featuring for over a decade a structural excess capacity with respect to international demand. Such excess capacity can be estimated at about 20%, albeit with significant differences among the various automobile makes and the various models. Given...
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production process get highly integrated through advanced Information and Communication Technology (ICT) systems. Although much … has been written on how ICT can improve productivity and competitiveness through a closer connection among partners, some … integration of the production processes made possible by ICT has no relevant negative effect, at which condition such integration …
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, mainly US Banking or Software Industry. The real “explosion” of alliances is the phenomena clearly observed in a global ICT … Industry. ICT Industry is the one of the fastest-growing Industries directly shaping global communication and leading changes … portfolios and alliance networks, as well as mergers and acquisitions. On the example of 30 leading global ICT giants and 10 …
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The article formulates the information theory of firm, introduces the concept of firm as an operating system, which controls the firm’s operation by the means of the information resources processing, in an analogy with the operating system at a microprocessor in the computing devices,...
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Contractual buyout (CoBO) is a new “collective ownership and joint administrative strategy”, which gives an opportunity to buy a target firm in the given period when the given contract ends between acquirer, target firm, and financier. It is a takeover defensive method and tends to avail tax...
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine how organisational closure can inform strategic foresight. Design/methodology/approach – We draw insights from illustrative cases, i.e. Swissair, Sabena and Cameroon Airlines to illustrate our theoretical analysis. Findings – The study shed...
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the historical trajectory of African management research and managerial thinking. Design/methodology/approach – This paper draws from a review and synthesis of the literature from 1960–2012. Findings – The analysis led to the...
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This paper aims at presenting an in-depth review of the new economic relationships associated with the advent of e-commerce in the daily lives of consumers in Bulgaria, which greatly contributes to change and adapt to the modern business environment as well as to the new processes. In the paper...
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The debate on competition and innovation has produced a wide range of theoretical and empirical findings. Recently, corporate governance quality has emerged as an additional factor that may complement or substitute for competition’s effect on innovation. We aim to contribute to the debate by...
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