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Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) are the driving engine behind economic growth. While SMEs play a critical role in generating employment and supporting trade, they face numerous challenges, the prominent among them are the need to respond to fasting time-to-market, low-cost and rapid...
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Problem statement: Although, literature proves the importance of the technology role in the effectiveness of virtual Research and Development (R&D) teams for new product development. However, the factors that make technology construct in a virtual R&D team are still ambiguous. The manager of...
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The development of formal ICT standards is a challenging form of collaborative innovation, combining consensus decision … panel of standards, we then confirm empirically the prediction that consortia have different effects on innovation under a … Public Good or Rent Seeking regime. Overall, we observe an increase in innovation after a firm joined a consortium. However …
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The aim of this paper is to analyse the effects of knowledge management on the innovation success of firms in Germany …. We look at innovative firms in the period from 2000 to 2002 taken from the Mannheim Innovation Panel and estimate the … management on the share of cost reductions with process innovation. …
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The purpose of this paper is to investigate the factors that influence the Internal Process Innovation (IPI) Activity … manufacturing small, medium and large enterprises were examined and a set of hypotheses, regarding their innovation activity, were …) and the electronic information exchange between business partners are positively related to firm’s process innovation …
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Virtual teams and management processes in them have been researched mainly theoretically. Most of these papers concentrate on presenting the definition and/or on outlining the advantages/disadvantages of virtual teams. Use of virtual teamwork is still relatively new field for academic research...
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Management literature prescribes innovation as a stimulus for sustained competitive advantage in companies; however … on the body of literature concerned with the factors which influence innovation management in organisations. The aim of … this research is to present a holistic view of the factors that affect innovation management. Using a systematic literature …
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Commercial diplomacy plays a crucial role in the interplay between international business and international relations, yet research regarding it is limited and focuses on a macro-level international relations perspective whereas more integrative meso- and micro-level research is needed. This...
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This article examines how research on agriculture and agribusiness mobilizes the concept of Innovation System (IS). The … uses of this concept. Based on this framework, a bibliometric analysis on international scientific journals in innovation … innovation and IS in this sector. The current challenge is to promote exchanges between these communities, particularly between …
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