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Virtual R & D teams in small and medium enterprises: A literature review
Ale Ebrahim, Nader; Ahmed, Shamsuddin; Taha, Zahari - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008866143
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R&D Network and value Creation in SMEs
Ale Ebrahim, Nader; Ahmed, Shamsuddin; Taha, Zahari - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
enterprises (SMEs) seemingly successful R&D is a function of innovation processes and R&D networks. There is a perceived lack of … and to SME's is the development of collaborative environments and networks to increase their innovation capabilities as a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008753078
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Virtual R&D Teams: A potential growth of education-industry collaboration
Ale Ebrahim, Nader; Ahmed, Shamsuddin; Rashid, Abdul; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
In this paper, we present our more than two years research experiences on virtual R&D teams in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and draws conclusions, giving special attention to the structure of virtual teams required to support education-industry collaboration. We report the relevant...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008765085
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Technology Use in the Virtual R&D Teams
Ale Ebrahim, Nader; Ahmed, Shamsuddin; Hanim, Salwa; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009647359
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Entrepreneurship and Innovation: Evidence from SMEs in Prishtina region, Kosovo
Govori, Arbiana - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
Innovation has become a central theme and challenge in the literature of entrepreneurship, SMEs management, and … strategic knowledge management and in the literature of organizational learning. Innovation needs a business environment that is … conducive to long-term investments in new business activities. This way, the development of innovation policy in SMEs forms an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011111092
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La gestion des compétences au service de l'innovation : pour une approche délibérément émergente
Klarsfeld, Alain - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2005
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010708926
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The effects of knowledge management on innovative success – An empirical analysis of German firms
Cantner, Uwe; Joel, Kristin; Schmidt, Tobias - In: Research Policy 40 (2011) 10, pp. 1453-1462
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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Innovation in small and medium-sized companies: Knowledge integration mechanisms and the role of top managers’ networks
Fliaster, Alexander; Golly, Tanja - In: management revue. Socio-economic Studies 25 (2014) 2, pp. 125-147
study shows that these social networks are an essential driver of knowledge integration and innovation. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010940824
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Business Contingency, Strategy Formation, and Firm Performance: An Empirical Study of Chinese Apparel SMEs
Chi, Ting - In: Administrative Sciences 5 (2015) 2, pp. 27-45
This study empirically investigated how small and medium-sized Chinese apparel enterprises (SME) formed their strategy as a response to the characteristics of business environment in order to achieve competitive business performance. An environment-strategy-performance model was proposed and...
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FACTORS INFLUENCING AN ORGANISATION'S ABILITY TO MANAGE INNOVATION: A STRUCTURED LITERATURE REVIEW AND CONCEPTUAL MODEL
SMITH, MARISA; BUSI, MARCO; BALL, PETER; MEER, ROBERT … - In: International Journal of Innovation Management (ijim) 12 (2008) 04, pp. 655-676
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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