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Technological change
Köllinger, Philipp - 2006
innovation, either to reduce production costs for a given output, to create a new product or service, or to deliver products to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009467190
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Innovation and market orientation in SMEs : antecedent factors and inter-relationships
Low, David R.; Chapman, R. L.; Sloan, Terrence R. - University of Western Sydney; University of Western Sydney; … - 2006
In pursuing sustainable competitive advantage, firms undertake a range of strategic initiatives such as innovation … interaction of two or more strategies. This study explores the interaction between two strategies, innovation and market … orientation, and identifies key components of the market orientation construct as antecedent factors of the innovation performance …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009481908
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The Great Realignment: How the Changing Technology of Technological Change in Information Technology Affected the US and Japanese IT Industry, 1983-1999
Arora, Ashish; Branstetter, Lee; Drev, Matej - 2009
This paper empirically shows that innovation in Information Technology (IT) has become increasingly dependent on and … intertwined with innovation in software. This change in the nature of IT innovation has had differential effects on the …’s contribution in IT innovation and the differential innovation performance of US and Japanese electronics, semiconductors, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009441225
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An error correction model of induced innovation in UK agriculture
Piesse J.; Schimmelpfennig D.; Thirtle C. - 2011
Cointegration techniques are applied to a model of induced innovation based on the two-stage Constant Elasticity of … price shocks. Thus, the Induced Innovation Hypothesis (IIH) may explain long-run transformations like the mechanical and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009480501
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Make-buy decisions in the face of technological change: does industry clockspeed matter?
Perrons, Robert K.; Platts, Ken - 2005
pursue a fairly rigorous ''make'' policy in the early days of a potentially disruptive innovation. Other studies prescribe …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009483248
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Consumer responsibility in the context of transition to green economy in Romania
Serbanescu, Ana; Puie (Răzvanță), Florina; Dinu, … - 2021
This paper presents a quantitative research with two main directions: (1) to determine the strength of a possible association between the consumers’ expectations from the companies and their willingness to be actively involved in the transition to green economy and (2) to establish the degree...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012629803
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When Advance Purchase need to be Made for Future Consumption – An Empirical Investigation of Consumer Choice under Bucket Pricing
Sun, Bao-Hong; Sun, Yacheng; Li, Shibo - 2006
Bucket pricing entails a prepaid price and a maximum consumption limit, which requires consumers to make advance purchase decisions before their consumption needs are fully revealed. We propose a dynamic model that involves how consumers form expectations of future consumption needs, learn to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009441184
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Emotional labor in intercultural service encounters: An experience sampling study
McCance, Andrea S. - 2010
The body of literature surrounding emotional labor, defined as service employees’ effort to manage their emotions to meet organizational goals (Hochschild, 1983; Morris & Feldman, 1996), exhibits a severe lack of studies examining intercultural service encounters (i.e., service episodes in which a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009477796
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Knowledge management: a residential aged care perspective
Preece, Michael - 2011
This research explores perceptions of knowledge management processes held by managers and employees in a service industry. To date, empirical research on knowledge management in the service industry is sparse. This research seeks to examine absorptive capacity its four absorptive capacity...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009480133
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Identifying entrepreneurship readiness for the application of the Lean Startup practices in the service industry – Case study Romania
Racolța-Paina, Nicoleta Dorina; Andrieș, Andreea Maria - 2017
The Lean Startup approach revealed around 2011 came as a novelty in the field of entrepreneurial management. The abbreviated version of the principles that mold the entire concept, states that instead of spending years developing a product towards perfection, a product that in the end might not...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011716430