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The foundation of new economies has shifted from natural resources to intellectual assets and top managers have been forced to focus on Knowledge Management that has been acknowledged as the most important resource and capability of modern firms’ advancement. Knowledge-creating companies may...
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This study attempts to explore the implementation of market orientation and innovation on business performance for SMEs … innovation. …
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, resources, and its innovation orientation. Using a sample of Canadian organizations, this study examines the relationships … between an organization's innovation orientation and the types of competitive strategies they pursue.An innovation orientation … implementation of proactive growth-based strategies. Organizations that possess high innovation orientations engage in value creation …
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Innovation could be recognised as a key success factor in an increasingly competitive, global economy. The purpose of … this paper is to examine the relations among market orientation, innovation strategy, innovative capability and innovation … innovation strategy. Then it examines the relationships between these factors and the innovative capability. A practical research …
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covariance structural analyses of data collected from 333 venture companies, including innovation companies, in Taiwan. Findings …
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, managerial ties and innovation simultaneously and interactively, from an Asian perspective. Our findings reveal that customer … orientation and interfunctional coordination have a positive impact on innovation. Moreover, managerial ties play a moderation … role in the market orientation–innovation linkage. Business ties enhance the relation between customer orientation and …
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This paper examines the strategic value of a market orientation using concepts from the resource based view of the firm. We show that a market orientation can be a strategic resource as it is heterogeneous, imperfectly mobile, and is imperfectly substitutable. Using examples from both...
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This paper presents a model of the life cycle that drives and is driven by R&D. In the model, firms have the option to improve their quality or to invest R&D resources in efficiency gains. Faced with this tradeoff, young firms opt for quality instead of efficiency improvements, whereas more...
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innovation at the sectoral level. Despite considerable interest in David and Foray's (1995) work on the codification of knowledge … and the changing nature of innovation due to the use of information and communication technologies, there are relatively … few empirical studies that probe the role of codified sources of information in the innovation process. Our goal is to …
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innovation in industry across Europe. The results presented in the empirical section of this paper are based on a unique database … (SIEPI) containing data drawn by the second Community Innovation Survey (CIS2) for 10 countries, 22 manufacturing sectors and … and explore in detail the differences in innovation processes both within and across European countries and manufacturing …
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