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An unconventional approach to intellectual property protection: The case of an Australian firm transferring shipbuilding technologies to China
McGaughey, SL; Liesch, PW; Poulson, D - 2000
Risks associated with the dissipation of intellectual property rights of foreign firms transferring technology to China have received some attention in the academic and professional, trade-based literature. An innovative Australian manufacturer and designer of large, high-speed catamaran ferries...
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How Firm Resources and Behavior Impact Firm Performance: An examination of firm resources, competitive actions, and performance
Major, David Lanier - 2009
In this dissertation, I considered how firm resources, actions and performance may be interrelated. I tested the notion that resources both enable and interact with firm actions to impact performance. Drawing from resource-based and actions-based theory and empirical research, testable...
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The struggle for competitive advantage in the airline industry
Cuccaro, Gianfranco - 2002
The aim of this thesis is to examine the way in which civil airlines exploit theirresources in order to gain and sustain competitive advantage. This is done within theframework of the resource-basedv iew, rather than using the market basedv iew, thoughtwithout of cause presuming to test that...
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A resource-based view of small export firms' social capital in a Southeast Asian country
Roxas, Hernan Banjo; Chadee, Doren - 2011
This study empirically examines the social capital that facilitates the flow of export knowledge, thereby supporting … the entrepreneurial stance of small export firms. By applying the VRIO (value, rarity, inimitability and organisation of …'s competitive advantage. This study argues that small, resource-constrained export firms in a developing economy are able to adopt …
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Does It Pay to be Green? An Integrated View of Environmental Marketing with Evidence from the Forest Products Industry in China
Cao, Xiaozhi "Jeff" - 2011
This research considers the question “Does it Pay to be Green?” which has been debated by forest industry practitioners and scholars for several decades. It was the same question that I encountered from time to time during my work with local industries and communities in the Asia-Pacific...
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Understanding the resource-based view : implications of methodological choice and a new creative context
Robinson, Susan Maureen - 2008
Over the past two decades, the resource-based view of the firm (RBV) has emerged as one of the more influential paradigms from the field of strategic management. However, the theory has been subjected to a number of criticisms, particularly related to the use of methodologies in past research....
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Globalisation of internal venture capital opportunities in developing small and medium enterprises' relationships
Kiessling, Timothy; Harvey, Michael G. - 2008
The global market has an impact on almost all Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs), but the high-technology industry appears to be most affected by the changes coming about due to globalisation. The industry is confronted with shorter product life cycles, blurring of industry boundaries and not...
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Familiness Qualities, Entrepreneurial Orientation and Long-term Performance Advantage
Irava, Wayne Jeremy - 2009
Familiness has become widely accepted as the appropriate construct representing the unique bundle of resources arising out of family involvement in business. However as yet we do not fully understand the types of familiness or the conditions that give rise to them and as such familiness remains...
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Resources supporting entrepreneurial orientation in multigenerational family firms
Irava, Wayne; Moores, Ken - 2010
We examine entrepreneurship in multigenerational family firms. Specifically, we employ theoretical lenses drawn from both entrepreneurship (entrepreneurial orientation) and strategy (resource-based view) to develop an integrated model of transgenerational entrepreneurship. Following a review of...
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Information, intelligence and resource advantage: A multi-market multi-theoretic call for research
Adams, Frank G.; Richey Jr., R. Glenn; Harvey, Michael G.; … - 2010
Market orientation has been cited as a source of competitive advantage that allows the firm to construct offerings superior to those of competitors by the effective collection and dissemination of and reaction to market intelligence. Previous work on market orientation has focused on the effort...
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