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gain from temporal work flexibility on parental time with children. Flexitime arrangements allow mothers to spend 30 … empirical support for the importance of temporal work flexibility on mitigating adverse effects of maternal employment on the …
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Product innovation is vital to ongoing brand equity and has been responsible for revitalizing many brands, including … form of innovation available to a firm, surprisingly no study has sought to bridge this gap. This study aims to address … this issue by, first, building a typology of the innovation practices underpinning differently positioned brands and …
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How can flexible logistics improve performance in a turbulent world when volatile customer demand and rising oil prices require responsive operations? This paper seeks an answer for this question in the field of control management in J.W. Ostendorf, a European paint company. Until recently...
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, M. (2003). 'Labour market deregulation, 'flexibility' and innovation', Cambridge Journal of Economics, 27(1), 123 …Labour ‘flexibility’ is often portrayed as important to competitive success. Using evidence from an original survey of … activities of those firms. Our results suggest that the sort of ‘low road’ labour flexibility practices encouraged by labour …
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) increases on the strategic emphasis placed on innovation, both product and process, positively impact the prominence managers … place on IT; (2) the impact of innovation (both product and process) on performance (both profitability and growth) is …
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Innovation is internationally recognized as an important source of competitiveadvantage. It was the aim of this … analysis was conducted on the data collectedin order to establish what the key drivers of innovation are.Although the factor … drivers of product andservice innovation in South African firms. …
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Functional Food emerged as a constant segment in the Europeanfood market and offer potential for product innovations which make themattractive for the food industry in nearly stagnating markets. Target groupresearch is one key factor for successful innovative food products. The aimof this...
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Innovation and new product development (NPD) are critical to firm success and are often cited as means to a sustained … competitive advantage. Unfortunately, the question of which innovation programs to pursue and how they should be funded is not …
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innovation and technological change when undertaking new product development. Focusing on the management of technology, it will … straightforward. Innovation is a complex process shaped not only by the firm's internal environment, but also by the interactions that … appreciate the value of these interactions in promoting innovation. However, for those involved in innovative new product …
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The importance of green innovation management is growing in practice and academia likewise. To our knowledge, a recent … innovation” and provide an overview of the existing body ofliterature in the field of green innovations identifying the most … environmental innovation are used largely synonymously while the notion ofsustainable innovation broadens the concept and includes a …
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