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Familiness Qualities, Entrepreneurial Orientation and Long-term Performance Advantage
Irava, Wayne Jeremy - 2009
Familiness has become widely accepted as the appropriate construct representing the unique bundle of resources arising out of family involvement in business. However as yet we do not fully understand the types of familiness or the conditions that give rise to them and as such familiness remains...
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A prefeasibility study of energy resource options in Hainan, China
Hill, L.J.; Russell, M.; Barron, W.F.; LaRocco, P.; Shen, Z. - 2008
This study identifies a strategy that (1) provides future energy services for Hainan in the least environmentally degrading way, (2) eliminates the need to build significant amounts of new fossil-fueled, electric generating capacity, saving capital to invest in other development projects, (3)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009435877
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Can Increased Trade Prevent Conflict with China?
Rush, Stephen - 2007
In the early 1990s, the United States began to run a significant trade deficit with China due to the dual forces of … greater trade liberalization and China’s transition from a command economy towards a market economy. Proponents of free trade … with China argue that greater integration will lead to a convergence of interests that reaches beyond economics. Despite …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009450218
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Globalisation of internal venture capital opportunities in developing small and medium enterprises' relationships
Kiessling, Timothy; Harvey, Michael G. - 2008
development is outlined: appropriate identification, funding, network inclusion, Top Management Team (TMT) inclusion and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009441643
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Resources supporting entrepreneurial orientation in multigenerational family firms
Irava, Wayne; Moores, Ken - 2010
We examine entrepreneurship in multigenerational family firms. Specifically, we employ theoretical lenses drawn from both entrepreneurship (entrepreneurial orientation) and strategy (resource-based view) to develop an integrated model of transgenerational entrepreneurship. Following a review of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009441789
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Information, intelligence and resource advantage: A multi-market multi-theoretic call for research
Adams, Frank G.; Richey Jr., R. Glenn; Harvey, Michael G.; … - 2010
Market orientation has been cited as a source of competitive advantage that allows the firm to construct offerings superior to those of competitors by the effective collection and dissemination of and reaction to market intelligence. Previous work on market orientation has focused on the effort...
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The Relationship Between Strategic Choices and Performance in Italian Food SMEs: A Resource-based Approach
Carraresi, Laura; Mamaqi, Xhevrie; Albisu, Luis Miguel; … - 2011
In the context of progressive rise of the competition among firms, due to the increasingglobalisation, it is interesting to understand the potential sources of competitive advantage in order to set upa successful strategy. The theory of Resource-based View used in this framework examines the...
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Bargaining Chains (Long Version)
Lovejoy, William S. - 2010
We consider a firm that designs a new product and wishes to bring it to market, but does not have ownership or control over all of the resources required to make that happen. The firm must select and contract with one of several possible tier 1 suppliers for necessary inputs, who do the same...
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Three Essays on the Economics of Information Systems.
Jian, Lian - 2010
My dissertation contains three studies centering on the question: how to motivate people to share high quality information on online information aggregation systems, also known as social computing systems? I take a social scientific approach to identify the strategic behavior of individuals in...
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EXPLAINING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE HR SYSTEM AND FIRM PERFORMANCE: A TEST OF THE STRATEGIC HRM FRAMEWORK.
Herdman, Andrew Orr - 2008
Recent meta-analytic treatments of the Strategic Human Resource Management literature suggest a relationship between …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009433884