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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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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015336211
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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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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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
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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Documentary evidence of the emergence and the eventual complete dominance of the Chinese mercantile traders (Sangleys …
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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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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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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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