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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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industrial innovation, while innovation is conceived to basically feed the regeneration of our welfare. The suppliers of S&T in …
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. This study on “R&D, Innovation and Employment Creation” for the Portuguese Observatory of Employment and Vocational … Training (IEFP-MQE) is updating information on the articulation between Job creation, innovation, technology, and R&D. A … diagnosis of the state of national S&T research and of processes of technological and organizational innovation was made, as …
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innovation activities. The selection of high-skill managers is more important for innovation activities. As the economy … investments, but little selection. Closer to the world technology frontier, there is a switch to an innovation-based strategy with …
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In this paper is analyzed the work organization and the forms of quality control in a robotic welding station in a company of office equipment and metal components manufacturing. The robotic cell is recent and works in two shifts. Quality and production rationalization implied in this firms the...
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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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A recent wave of economic research has studied the transformation of China from a poor country in the 1970s to a middle-income economy today. Based on this literature, we discuss the factors driving China’s development process. We provide a historical account of China’s rise, fall, and...
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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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innovation. …
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We discuss the two-way link between culture and economic growth. We present a model of endogenous technical change where growth is driven by the innovative activity of entrepreneurs. Entrepreneurship is risky and requires investments that affect the steepness of the lifetime consumption profile....
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