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Business sustainability and undergraduate management education in Australia

Fisher, Josie; Bonn, Ingrid - 2009

sustainability and the appropriate strategies required to improve business sustainability. In addition, there are international calls … business sustainability is being incorporated into undergraduate business and management courses in Australian universities … skills will influence the extent to which business sustainability will be achieved. The findings demonstrate that more than …

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The impact of high Telecommunications costs on the callcentre industry in Cape Town, South Africa

Ngobeni, Robson Mpande - 2009

This study provides a comprehensive overview of challenges and obstacles that are caused by high telecommunications costs within the callcentre industry in Cape Town, South Africa. This study couldn’t have come at a better time considering the current turbulent economic circumstances around...

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Information internalisation in internationalising the firm

Knight, G. A.; Liesch, P. W. - 2002

Internationalisation occurs when the firm expands its selling, production, or other business activities into …

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Dual paths to performance: the impact of global pressures on MNC subsidiary conduct and performance

Venaik, S.; Midgley, D. F.; Devinney, T. M. - 2005

Over the last decade, the international business literature has placed ever-greater emphasis on the role that learning …

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Systemic absorptive capacity: creating early-to-market returns through R&D alliances

Newey, Lance R.; Shulman, Arthur D. - 2004

For most complex emergent technologies, product-market success depends on efficient linkages between changing lead innovators within the R&D process. In this paper, our unit of analysis is a complex high technology product and the system of alliance linkages formed to progress a product through...

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A post-carbon aviation future: airports and the transition to a cleaner aviation sector

Kivits, Robbert; Charles, Michael B; Ryan, Neal Francis - 2010

There is an increasing global interest in sustainable aviation technologies as a result of concerns associated with the carbon-intensive nature of the industry and the imminence of reaching peak oil. Available options such as biofuels, liquid hydrogen and electric propulsion will not only impact...

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Conceptualizing accelerated internationalization in the born global firm: A dynamic capabilities perspective

Weerawardena, J.; Sullivan Mort, Gillian; Liesch, P; … - 2007

Existing approaches at explaining accelerated internationalization of born global firms are incomplete as they do not capture the learning that is undertaken by these firms and their founders prior to the firm's legal establishment. Building on the extant literature and drawing on the dynamic...

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Exploring the characteristics of the market-driven firms and antecedents to sustained competitive advantage

Weerawardena, Jay; OCass, Aron - 2004

During the last few decades, identifying and examining the characteristics of market-driven firms have been a dominant theme in strategic marketing research. It has been argued that market-driven firms are superior in their market sensing and customer linking capabilities, enabling market-driven...

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Does industry matter? Examining the role of industry structure and organizational learning in innovation and brand performance

Weerawardena, J.; O'Cass, A.; Julian, C. - 2006

A manager's perception of industry structure (dynamism) has the potential to impact various organizational strategies and behaviors. This may be particularly so with regard to perceptions driving organizational learning orientations and innovation based marketing strategy. The position taken...

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Emergent Realities of Global Competition

Fatehi, Kamal; Veliyath, Rajaram; Derakhshan, Foad - 2008

international business over this time period are then discussed. The next section of the paper discusses the nature of the new …

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