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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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Analyzes the uses and functions of business models through original, qualitative case studies focused on research-based spin-offs.
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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...
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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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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....
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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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-making power concerning their future. This relative `forfeiture' of their independence is initially due to a governance which flees …
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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 …
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: 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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We develop a theory of innovation for entry and sale into oligopoly, and show that inventions of higher quality are …
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