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This article examines business practices focused on knowledge and innovation and the relationship of these business … knowledge and innovation-related business practices. Our analysis reveals that firms in each country can be categorised based on … their focus on knowledge and innovation as: (1) high focus; (2) moderate focus; or (3) low focus. Results indicate that …
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Technological innovation, knowledge diffusion and employee entrepreneurship and mobility are closely related phenomena … employees solve affects innovation performance and employees’ choices about entrepreneurship and mobility. In essay 1 I examine … innovation performance. In essay 2 I develop a model connecting attributes of technological tasks with the probability of idea …
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This study proposed a look at the importance and challenges of knowledge management in times of great change. In order to understand the information phenomena of interest, impacts on knowledge workers and knowledge documents in times of great organizational change, the study is positioned in a...
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Divergence of new and old technologies is a source of tremendous innovation potential. As the dizzying pace of … technological innovation accelerates indefinitely into tomorrow, not only do new paths diverge exponentially; doors already opened … encouraged through the learning and application of universal innovation principles and processes. The implications of this …
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This dissertation examines the ways international research collaboration affects the ability of Colombian research teams to produce bibliographic outputs, and to contribute to local knowledge. Research hypotheses are tested using Zero Inflated Negative Binomial Regression models to account for...
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Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wird das Umfeld der mittelständischen Ingenieurdienstleister bei Lieferantenreduzierung beleuchtet und darüber hinaus erforscht, welche Merkmale für eine Kooperation in dieser Branche relevant sind. Darauf aufbauend werden Handlungsempfehlungen abgeleitet, auf deren...
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Collective knowledge, consisting of tacit group-embedded knowledge, is a key element of organizational capabilities. This study undertakes a multiple-case study of the transfer of collective knowledge, guided by a set of tentative constructs and propositions derived from organizational learning...
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This dissertation consists of three empirical studies on foreign market entry and development by US fast-food chains. While prior international business research has principally sought to explain when, where and how firms enter foreign markets, surprisingly little attention has been given to...
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This paper describes research into problems commonly experienced when implementing an off-the-shelf information system into the complex work-practices of an organisation. Encountering such an occurrence, the authors employed a grounded theory approach to study the case though the collection,...
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This paper describes how firms’ propensity to carry out component (or architectural) innovation is influenced by the … technologies (Takeishi 2002). Importantly, this study also shows how architectural innovation prevails in the early phase of … technological changes, while component innovation dominates the later stages. Furthermore, unlike what could be anticipated, total …
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