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This research explores the impact of gender on managerial styles, especially the strategic typology employed by hotel managers in Canada during economic stressful times. Miles and Snow’s strategic typology framework of defender, prospector, analyzer and reactor was employed and explored...
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innovation and performance. In this paper is presented an empirical study in this direction, based on data for 743 hospitals from … and estimated econometrically five equations: one for product innovation, one for process innovation and three equations … ‘soft’ ICT investment), as right-hand variables, while the performance equations also included the two innovation measures …
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The main objective of this empirical paper is to identify characteristics of imitation and innovation and shed light on … different types of innovating firms show that an innovation performance hierarchy exists ranking from occasional innovators …
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universities and tested them on Swiss firm data. In a second step, we investigated the impact on innovation performance of …-oriented firms. We further found a positive effect on innovation performance for exploration-oriented firms but not for those that …
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The article shows a surprising way of how management consultant's daily practices play a role in managers' decisions. Beyond the traditionally recognized roles of consultants (high level staff, energy catalyst), we pinpoint the importance of information transmission and the ambiguity of this...
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publicly available sources (OECD and the Swiss Federal Statistical Office) and on micro data from the KOF innovation panel …. Special attention is paid to a firm’s innovation performance, investments in information and communication technologies and IT …
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du fonctionnement de l'organisation, en particulier en ce qui concerne les phénomènes intimement liés d'innovation et de … transgression. Les travaux en sociologie de l'innovation de cet auteur établissent avec force le constat, les formes et enfin les …
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Starting point of our analysis is the empirical fact that firms pursue different goals when getting engaged in R&D collaborations, often more than one goal at the same time. Given that firms are driven by different motives for R&D cooperation, the aim of this article is to investigate the...
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This study is based on data a cohort of Swiss firms that were founded in 1996/97. In the year 2000 data were collected by means of a postal survey among those firms, which still existed by that time. In 2003 and 2006 two further surveys were conducted among the participants of the respective...
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question focusing on the innovation capability of firm founders. We find that the combination of different founder …
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