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ARE SMALL-FIRM CLUSTERS EMERGENT PHENOMENA? EVIDENCE FROM ZIMBABWE’S SMALL FURNITURE- MANUFACTURING FIRMS

MUPONDA, Godfrey; CHANETA, Isaac - In: EcoForum 3 (2014) 2, pp. 6-6

The purpose of this study was to explore the reasons behind the rapid growth and apparent dynamism of Zimbabwe’s small-firm industrial clusters. The hypothesis behind the study was that these small-firm clusters are emergent phenomena. The study analysed the capital utilisation techniques of...

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ARE SMALL-FIRM CLUSTERS EMERGENT PHENOMENA? EVIDENCE FROM ZIMBABWE’S SMALL FURNITURE- MANUFACTURING FIRMS

MUPONDA, Godfrey; CHANETA, Isaac - 2014

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Digital platform ecosystems in flux: From proprietary digital platforms to wide-spanning ecosystems

Nerbel, Jan Frederic; Kreutzer, Markus - In: Electronic Markets 33 (2023) 1

infrastructures. Although DPEs are researched extensively among management scholars, shortcomings in formalizing their emergence … remain. Particularly re-occurring patterns and temporal dimensions of emergence continue to be relatively unexplored. We … review existing literature in an integrative manner and shed light on DPE emergence by deriving a framework comprising four …

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Systemism

Gräbner-Radkowitsch, Claudius; Kapeller, Jakob - 2024

This entry discusses the concept of "systemism", elaborates how it implicitly underpinned most seminal works of evolutionary-institutional economics, and explains how future research would benefit from making the systemist nature of evolutionary economics more explicit. More precisely, the paper...

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Systemism

Gräbner-Radkowitsch, Claudius; Kapeller, Jakob - 2024

This short paper discusses the concept of "systemism", elaborates how it implicitly underpinned most seminal works of evolutionary-institutional economics, and explains how future research would benefit from making the systemist nature of evolutionary economics more explicit. More precisely, the...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015045479

Using Agent-Based Models to Understand the Surprising Complexity of Global Markets

Earnest, David - 2011

Why is the economy “complex”? For all the recent advances in the management sciences, businesses today face markets full of unexpected events, from cascading failures of lending institutions to speculative investment and the explosive growth of tech firms. In this talk, I argue that the...

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Wipeout: Sangley mercantile dominance and persistence in the Spanish colonial period in the Philippines

Fabella, Raul V. - 2012

Documentary evidence of the emergence and the eventual complete dominance of the Chinese mercantile traders (Sangleys …

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Neither Pirates nor Politicos: The Emergence of Venture Capital in Weak Institutional Environments

Lingelbach, David Charles - 2009

Existing variance studies of venture capital (VC) provide an incomplete understanding of VC emergence, emphasizing … perspectives do not provide for a complete understanding of the systemic, processual character of VC emergence. A multistage … process model of emergence is developed, linking industry structural characteristics and their underlying processes to …

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The use of networks in human resource acquisition for entrepreneurial firms: Multiple "fit" considerations

Leung, Aegean; Zhang, Jing; Wong, Poh Kam; Foo, Maw Der - 2006

This study proposes a multi-dimension, multi-contingent "fit" perspective for examining different practices adapted by entrepreneurial firms in acquiring human resources. We posit that while environmental constraints are important considerations for adapting recruitment practices through...

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IT-based knowledge management to support organizational learning: visa application screening at the INS

Gasson, Susan; Shelfer, Katherine - 2007

This paper explores the tensions between analyzing IT-related change requirements to support knowledge-as-thing versus knowledge-as-process. We explore these tensions in the high-risk decision-making environment of an Immigration and Naturalization Service agency. The study combines competitive...

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