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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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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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Impact of strategic management, corporate social responsibility on firm performance in the post mandate period: Evidence from India
Mitra, Nayan - In: International Journal of Corporate Social … 6 (2021) 1, pp. 1-15
Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is like a chameleon, that changes its colour according to the context it is in. In the developed economy, it takes the form of sustainability and/ or philanthropy, whereas, in emerging economies, it speaks the language of religious, political and/or mandated...
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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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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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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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Strategic dynamics and corporate performance: A longitudinal assessment
Leker, Jens - 1996
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010266700