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Quality Cost and Failure Risk in the Choice of Single versus Multiple Sourcing
Yim, Andrew - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
The advantage of multiple sourcing to protect against supplier failures arising from undependable (or even unsafe) products due to latent defects is examined using a quality-cost model of supply base composition. Prior models have focused on supplier failures arising from unreliable supply, such...
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What do business models do? Narratives, calculation and market exploration
Doganova, Liliana; Renault, Marie - Centre de Sociologie de l'Innovation (CSI), MINES ParisTech - 2008
Analyzes the uses and functions of business models through original, qualitative case studies focused on research-based spin-offs.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005081417
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UWARUNKOWANIA KULTUROWE A POWIĄZANIA MIĘDZYFIRMOWE W SEKTORACH GLOBALNYCH. PERSPEKTYWA EMPIRYCZNA
Golonka, Monika - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
I explore the relationship in partnering strategy [exploration – based on weak ties vs. exploitation – based on strong ties], national culture and and firms’ organizational model in the context of global ICT Industry. In the highly uncertain global environment, partnering is the one of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009402047
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Robust Imitation Strategies
Sudharshan, Devanathan; Furrer, Olivier; Arakoni, Ramesh A. - Faculté des sciences économiques et sociales - … - 2013
Performance is the lifeblood of a firm's management. Performance itself depends on the adaptation of strategy, based on learning and the environment. An important way that firms adapt their strategy is through imitation or mimetic isomorphism. Imitation implies a referent for such adaptations....
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Gaining Company’s Sustained Competitive Advantage, Is Really a Necessary Precondition for Improved Organizational Performance? The Case of TQM
Economou, Victoria Pekka; Chatzikonstantinou, Pantelis G. - In: European Research Studies Journal XII (2009) 3, pp. 83-100
During the last decades companies compete in a highly volatile globalized environment due to international competition and the development of new business approaches. Globalization has transformed the historic patterns of investment, production and distribution of firms and organizations....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008515034
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Choice of an ordering strategy taking into account of risks about customer service levels and on-hands inventories
Baboli, A.; Llerena, D.; Moyaux, T. - Laboratoire d'Économie Appliquée de Grenoble, … - 2009
This paper investigates the foundations of cooperative identity and how it is constructed by the organisation. More specifically, our research focuses on a financial cooperative in the simultaneously emerging and consolidating cultural sector. The originality of this paper lies in the...
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Dynamiques des Entreprises Agroalimentaires (EAA) du Languedoc-Roussillon : évolutions 1998-2003. Programme de recherche PSDR 2001-2006 financé par l'Inra et la Région Languedoc-Ro...
Couderc, J.P. (contributor); Couderc, M. (contributor) - Unité Mixte de Recherche Marchés, Organisations, … - 2006
-making power concerning their future. This relative `forfeiture' of their independence is initially due to a governance which flees …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005040811
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Factors Affecting the Innovation Process in the Cypriot Food and Beverage Industry
Efstathiades A.; Boustras G.; Bratskas R.; Michaelides A. - In: European Research Studies Journal X (2007) 1-2, pp. 23-42
study. The influence of innovation as a development vehicle is considered and factors affecting it have been investigated …. In order to define and introduce these factors affecting innovation in the Cypriot manufacturing sector a nationwide … collect information that will be used in a second stage in order to introduce the innovation factors affecting industrial …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008475693
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L’innovation en PME le role de l’accompagnement managerial et industriel innovation and SMES the role of managerial and industrial accompaniment
Dokou, Gérard - Laboratoire de Recherche sur l'Industrie et … - 2006
: l’innovation globale. Il en résulte sa maîtrise par une double action. La première prescrit de l’envisager dans la …’appuyer sur des synergies. Celles-ci ont une double origine. La première est de type organisationnel et fonde la culture de l’innovation … la continuité des valeurs culturelles en terme d’innovation globale Globalization seems to question the durability of …
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Creative Destruction and Productive Preemption
Norbäck, Pehr-Johan; Persson, Lars; Svensson, Roger - CESifo - 2013
We develop a theory of innovation for entry and sale into oligopoly, and show that inventions of higher quality are …
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