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Purpose – Market strategies and technology strategies are two sides of the same coin that drive innovation efforts …. This paper argues that combining them as a balanced force is crucial for innovation performance. Design …/methodology/approach – Using an inductive case study with in-depth interviews, the authors analyze a highly successful innovation process in a high …
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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate how modern network video technology could be used to improve … existing information technology and offered a new dimension that provided the real-time analysis of different activities in … warehouse operations. The main barriers to implementing video technology included uncertain return on investment, staff …
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innovation, in the specific case of an emerging environmental technology: biodegradable materials in Germany. Shows the important … role regulation plays in the innovation process. However, regulation is only one part of the whole system which influences … the development of a technological innovation.  …
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enhance local economic growth, especially in light of the role of new Cultural Technology Districts (CTDs). In this context …
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In 1930, John Maynard Keynes explored long‐term economic growth, anticipating that the economic problem of scarcity was likely to vanish in a century’s time. The Keynes’ scenario is confronted with current developments related to the growth of services and to the distributional and...
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Since 1980, there has been an increasing interest in the area of innovation, entrepreneurship and economic development …
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The Campus Infrastructure (CI) Department at the University of Calgary absorbed a 25 per cent reduction in its operating budget in 1995. As a result, it was forced to transform its business processes in order to provide the required level of services to the campus. Through its strategic planning...
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Many corporations in recent years have considered outsourcing administrative or non‐essential functions. This reflects both a corporate desire to focus on core functions and growing sophistication among providers of these secondary functions. Rogers Communications Inc., one of Canada’s...
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manufacturing technology (AMT) portfolios that firms adopt. Mail survey data obtained from 116 manufacturing firms in the USA that … in average labour costs across all technology portfolio classifications. For all technology groups, firms recorded their …
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Can operations management impact significantly the profitability of consumer‐based businesses on the Internet (called B2C)? During the past two years, Internet retailers have not provided satisfactory financial results. Whereas, leading in‐store retailers have been profitable using...
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