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Determinants of SMEs' product innovation performance in Malaysia: an extended model
Yusr, Maha Mohammed; Aliyu, Olayemi Abdullateef; … - In: Cogent Business & Management 9 (2022) 1, pp. 1-24
This paper analyzes the organizational capabilities associated with new product development of SMEs in manufacturing companies with indicators such as administrative capabilities, functional capabilities (R&D, manufacturing, and marketing), and innovative performance (new product development) in...
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Distance to frontier and appropriate business strategy
Coad, Alex - 2008
This paper is an empirical test of the hypothesis that the appropriateness of different business strategies is conditional on the firm's distance to the industry frontier. We use data on four 2-digit high-tech manufacturing industries in the US over the period 1972-1999, and apply...
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Innovation Activities Abroad and the Effects of Liability of Foreignness: Where it Hurts
Sofka, Wolfgang - 2006
The innovation activities of foreign subsidiaries have been identified as an important source of competitive advantage … foreignness). We derive potential stumbling blocks in the innovation process theoretically and argue that these materialize as … innovation activities in Germany from various sectors. We find that foreign-controlled firms are not challenged by liability of …
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The role of data and knowledge in firms' service and product innovation
Koski, Heli - 2012
findings emphasize the role of a firm's absorptive capacity and its ICT competence in data-based innovation. It seems that … customer involvement in innovation process positively relates to the production of new data-based products and services. The … reported empirical findings further indicate that data-based product and service innovation tends to be rather strongly demand-driven. …
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The Impact of E-Commerce Strategies on Firm Value : Lessons from Amazon.com and its Early Competitors
Filson, Darren - 2003
Which strategies generate value in e-commerce environments? In a step towards answering this question, this paper estimates the impacts of several competitive strategies on the values of the well-known Internet retailer Amazon.com and three of its early competitors, BarnesandNoble.com, CDNOW,...
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The configurational approach to linking strategic human resource management bundles with business performance: Myth or reality?
Stavrou, Eleni T.; Brewster, Chris - In: Management Revue 16 (2005) 2, pp. 186-201
Strategic human resource management has been linked to competitive advantage and in turn to organizational performance. This linkage has been viewed from a universal, a contextual or a configurational perspective. Adopting the latter perspective, the authors of the present study investigate the...
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Business strategy and firm reorganization under changing market conditions
Ghosal, Vivek - 2009
This study is framed against the increasingly stringent environmental demands on the pulp and paper industry since the late-1980s to reduce water and air pollution, and the global economic slowdown of the early-1990s. The primary focus of this paper is an observation-based analysis conducted by...
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Leveraging innovation knowledge management to create positional advantage in agricultural value chains
Prasad Adhikari, Rajendra; Miles, Morgan P.; Bonney, … - In: Journal of Innovation & Knowledge (JIK) 4 (2019) 2, pp. 115-123
This study employs resource advantage theory to identify how beef cattle value chain actors' resources are translated into the positional advantage and how that then affects their financial performance in an emerging country context. The study tested was designed to understand if: (1) the...
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Innovation by Defining Failures under Environmental and Competitive Pressures: A Case Study of the Laundry Detergent Market in Japan
Fujiwara, Masatoshi - 2011
This paper aims to describe how a commercially successful innovation occurs with the altering of the existing … market in Japan and elucidate the manner in which Kao accomplished an innovation and increased their market share during the … late 1980s. Kao introduced their new detergent Attack through a biotechnological innovation and dramatically changed the …
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Creating strategic advantage through entrepreneurial governance in new ventures
Audretsch, David B.; Lehmann, Erik E.; Plummer, Lawrence A. - 2007
An important literature has made a fundamental link between corporate governance and corporate strategy. According to agency theory, assigning managers stock options aligns their interests with the interests of the owners of the firm. This paper suggests that this may not apply in the context of...
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