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Corporate Social Capital and Firm Performance in the Global Information Technology Services Sector
Lock Lee, Laurence - 2008
The confluence of a number of marketplace phenomena has provided the impetus for the selection and conduct of this research. The first is the so called value relevance of intangibles in determining share market performance of publicly listed companies. The growing gap between market and book...
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The impact of Communities of Practice (CoP)on inter-firm alliance research teams
Erasmus, René - 2005
The need for faster, more flexible and less risky ways for organisations to expand their capabilities and competencies increasingly lead to the formation and proliferation of networking strategies and partners. Understanding the potential contribution that CoP membership can provide within these...
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Networks, Information & Social Capital
Aral, Sinan; Van Alstyne, Marshall - 2008
This paper investigates how information flows enable social networks to constitute social capital. By analyzingthe information content encoded in email communication in an executive recruiting firm, we examinethe long held but empirically untested assumption that diverse networks drive economic...
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Neither Pirates nor Politicos: The Emergence of Venture Capital in Weak Institutional Environments
Lingelbach, David Charles - 2009
Existing variance studies of venture capital (VC) provide an incomplete understanding of VC emergence, emphasizing … perspectives do not provide for a complete understanding of the systemic, processual character of VC emergence. A multistage … process model of emergence is developed, linking industry structural characteristics and their underlying processes to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009440926
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The use of networks in human resource acquisition for entrepreneurial firms: Multiple "fit" considerations
Leung, Aegean; Zhang, Jing; Wong, Poh Kam; Foo, Maw Der - 2006
This study proposes a multi-dimension, multi-contingent "fit" perspective for examining different practices adapted by entrepreneurial firms in acquiring human resources. We posit that while environmental constraints are important considerations for adapting recruitment practices through...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009448383
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Using Agent-Based Models to Understand the Surprising Complexity of Global Markets
Earnest, David - 2011
Why is the economy “complex”? For all the recent advances in the management sciences, businesses today face markets full of unexpected events, from cascading failures of lending institutions to speculative investment and the explosive growth of tech firms. In this talk, I argue that the...
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IT-based knowledge management to support organizational learning: visa application screening at the INS
Gasson, Susan; Shelfer, Katherine - 2007
This paper explores the tensions between analyzing IT-related change requirements to support knowledge-as-thing versus knowledge-as-process. We explore these tensions in the high-risk decision-making environment of an Immigration and Naturalization Service agency. The study combines competitive...
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Technology market intermediaries and innovation
Tietze, Frank; Herstatt, Cornelius - 2010
transaction obstacles and the emergence of technology market intermediaries (TMI). Why TMIs emerge and how they attempt to … innovation) to support firms managing transactions. Following the notion of Stigler (1951) and North (1996), the emergence of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009457687
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ARE SMALL-FIRM CLUSTERS EMERGENT PHENOMENA? EVIDENCE FROM ZIMBABWE’S SMALL FURNITURE- MANUFACTURING FIRMS
MUPONDA, Godfrey; CHANETA, Isaac - 2014
The purpose of this study was to explore the reasons behind the rapid growth and apparent dynamism of Zimbabwe’s small-firm industrial clusters. The hypothesis behind the study was that these small-firm clusters are emergent phenomena. The study analysed the capital utilisation techniques...
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Information, Technology and Information Worker Productivity
Aral, Sinan; Brynjolfsson, Erik; Van Alstyne, Marshall - 2008
We study the fine-grained relationships among information flows, IT use,and individual information-worker productivity, by analyzing work at amidsize executive recruiting firm. We analyze both project-level andindividual-level performance using: (1) direct observation of over125,000 e-mail...
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