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A focus on strategic human resource development (HRD) has been emphasised as a key contributor to ensuring organisational effectiveness and the maximum return from their most important asset; the people in the organisation. It has been argued that effective management and innovative approaches...
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continuously innovate, often having to do more with less. Increasing awareness of the benefits of stimulating continuous innovation … in small and medium enterprises has led to the development and implementation of design innovation programs, with many … western countries investing in design innovation programs for better firm performance. This paper investigates how firms …
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corporate entrepreneurship: innovation, venturing or strategic renewal. We argue that structural differentiation may help … positive moderation effect regarding innovation and venturing, and TMT social integration has a negative moderation effect … regarding strategic renewal. This reveals that innovation is influenced by informal integration mechanisms on the organizational …
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A review of extant literature reveals various theories on innovation, including technology push, market pull, and an …’s competitive environment. An integrated view of innovation has emerged that synthesizes the variables in previous approaches …. However, the application of this view has been restricted to investigating the innovation processes within the computer and …
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ideas, and who can duck and cope with unpredictability. This chapter examines the concepts of proactivity and innovation. It …
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This study investigates the links between product innovation and external collaboration and between future product … innovation and past abandonment in small and medium sized firms. Our findings from 449 manufacturing firms indicated firms that … of a product innovation than firms without external collaboration. Implications, limitations and future research are …
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Governments at all levels are implementing electronic procurement systems, and in particular sponsoring eMarketplace systems. The selection and implementation of eMarketplace systems is complex within the private sector. The procurement environment of the public sector is constrained a range of...
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industries. In particular, policy initiatives, product developments, innovation and consumption patterns are taken into … operations. In the case of destination management, innovation and policy planning are key parameters of success. Additionally … innovation. Furthermore, 300 self-administered questionnaires were distributed to British travellers to Cyprus, so as to identify …
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' more generally, and, secondly, to the effects of new technology and innovation. The effects of both globalisation and … results of which, relating in particular to innovation, are reported in this Special Issue of the International Review of … Interdisciplinary Economics , Volume 13.) It is clear from the empirical work reported that the effects of technological innovation have …
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and public policy discussions - increasingly on issues of globalisation, innovation and 'competitiveness'. These issues … internationalisation of the innovation process', International Journal of the Economics of Business, 5(3), 261-277. [Available at http …
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