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Mu, Jifeng; Peng, Gang; Tan, Yi - In: International Journal of Emerging Markets 2 (2007) 2, pp. 123-143

Purpose – The importance of innovation to the performance of firms has led to numerous studies conducted to identify …

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Structural change and the emergence of the Brazilian MNEs

Arbix, Glauco - In: International Journal of Emerging Markets 5 (2010) 3/4, pp. 266-288

, Industry and Foreign Trade, and the Industrial Survey of Technological Innovation also sponsored by the IBGE. This procedure …

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Customer interaction in service innovation: evidence from India

Alam, Intekhab - In: International Journal of Emerging Markets 8 (2013) 1, pp. 41-64

to the extant literature of new service development and innovation. …

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Innovation in emerging markets – the case of China

Yip, George; McKern, Bruce - In: International Journal of Emerging Markets 9 (2014) 1, pp. 2-10

. This paper aims to focus on why China is moving from imitation to innovation, how MNCs are evolving their R&D activities in … imitation to innovation and that multinational companies should develop strategies for conducting R&D there. Originality …/value – This is a fairly original paper in that there has been only limited research on innovation in China. …

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Suppliers and environmental innovation

Geffen, Charlette A.; Rothenberg, Sandra - In: International Journal of Operations & Production Management 20 (2000) 2, pp. 166-186

Automobile assembly plants worldwide face increasing pressures in the environmental arena. How a plant responds to these issues has significant implications for the cost and quality of plant operations. This paper uses three case studies of US assembly plants to examine the role of partnerships...

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Management practices for environmental innovation and performance

Theyel, Gregory - In: International Journal of Operations & Production Management 20 (2000) 2, pp. 249-266

This paper explores whether there are discernible differences in the environmental innovation and performance of US … environmental innovation and performance. This paper shows high levels of adoption of several practices for improving environmental … innovation and performance. Firms are using practices such as total quality management, certification of suppliers, R&D, and the …

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Selecting sourcing strategies for technological innovation: an empirical case study

Chiesa, Vittorio; Manzini, Raffaella; Tecilla, Federico - In: International Journal of Operations & Production Management 20 (2000) 9, pp. 1017-1037

This paper faces the problem of the decision maker who has to identify the most appropriate organisational mode for the external acquisition of a certain technology. Its objective is twofold: to explain the rationale behind the choice of a definite mode of collaboration, i.e. to understand which...

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Knowledge and continuous innovation

Boer, Harry; Caffyn, Sarah; Corso, Mariano; Coughlan, Paul - In: International Journal of Operations & Production Management 21 (2001) 4, pp. 490-504

product innovation. Literature, however, is still mainly focused on how product development projects, seen largely as isolated … substantive competitive advantage by extending their innovation efforts to other phases of the product life cycle and by …‐Australian co‐operation centre for Continuous Improvement and innovation MAnagement). …

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Restructuring supply chains through information channel innovation

Croom, Simon - In: International Journal of Operations & Production Management 21 (2001) 4, pp. 504-515

This paper examines the optimisation of purchasing for maintenance, repair and operating supplies (MRO) through purchase process re‐engineering. In particular, the use and development of the Internet as a channel for procurement of MRO items was examined from a transaction cost perspective....

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Technological knowledge maturity, innovation and productivity

Skilton, Paul F.; Dooley, Kevin - In: International Journal of Operations & Production Management 22 (2002) 8, pp. 887-901

This paper develops theory about the relationship between innovation and productivity improvements when technological … concerning innovation and productivity improvements are developed that are counter‐intuitive to conventional thinking … agribusiness firm to test the hypotheses. Support is found for the hypotheses that the connection between innovation and …

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