The Importance of Business and Organizational Environment -- The Effects of Strategic Design on Business Operations -- Strategic and Innovative Thinking -- Risk Management Activities in Business Operations.

This book encompasses empirical evidences to understand the application of data analytical techniques in emerging contexts. Varied studies relating to manufacturing and services sectors including healthcare, banking, information technology, power, education sector etc. stresses upon the...

The book examines the trade liberalization measures, which were initiated in India during 1991 and which focused on manufacturing industries.This industry was considered because of its strong inter-sectoral links and its capacity to stimulate the growth of other sectors. The resulting liberal...

Julia M. Jonas examines stakeholder integration and its’ dynamics in the setting of service innovation in IT and manufacturing firms. Applying a service-dominant logic theory approach, the multiple case study research describes the implementation of stakeholder integration with its’...

Die sorgfältig geplante und umgesetzte Markteinführung von Neuprodukten zählt zu den zentralen Determinanten des Innovationserfolgs. Trotz dieser Bedeutung widmen sich nur wenige Untersuchungen diesem Thema. Bisherige Forschungsarbeiten weisen zudem erhebliche Defizite hinsichtlich der...

Firms without research and development (R&D) have frequently been neglected by mainstream innovation research. The small number of existing studies provides only fragmented and sometimes even contradictory findings, because they assume that non-R&D-performing firms show a “typical”,...