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Making sense of projects : developing project portfolio management capabilities

Ahlemann, Frederik; Bergan, Peder; Karger, Erik; … - In: Schmalenbach journal of business research : SBUR 76 (2024) 2, pp. 293-325

Project management and project portfolio management (PPM) foster competitiveness by facilitating the implementation of …

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Public Policy and the Corporate Social Responsibility of Value Chain Management of Environmental Research and Development

Scott, John T. - 2014

responsibility and value chain management. The paper then explains how public policies aimed at improving environmental performance …-chain management is that a company’s managers will find profitable opportunities for environmental R&D when public policy focuses on …

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What is Your Company's Innovation Quotient?

Rao, Jay; Weintraub, Joseph R. - 2014

Firms struggle to define, measure and manage two very critical and strategic issues within the enterprise -- innovation and culture. This paper outlines the work that we have done with firms in order to articulate these two fuzzy concepts and create a robust framework that captures them with the...

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Evidence on the Effects of Mandatory Disclaimers in Advertising

Green, Kesten C.; Armstrong, J. Scott - 2015

Disclaimers are widely used by firms to warn customers of dangers and limitations of their products, and are persuasive when the issue is important. We examine the effects of mandatory disclaimers. Speech restrictions conflict with basic economic incentives. Sellers are motivated by profit to...

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Corporate Global Responsibility in For-Profit Public Service Networks in France : Toward an Extension of Corporate Social Responsibility (La Responsabilite Globale des Entreprises...

Merlin-Brogniart, Céline; Depret, Marc-Hubert - 2013

This paper tries to identify French for-profit public services’ sustainable business strategies which could lead to a "global" responsibility (i.e. an economical, social and environmental responsibility). These organizations have always managed contradictory aims between their public missions...

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Fit and Complementarity – Cognitive Distance and Combined Competence as Predictors of Co-Operative R&D Projects’ Outcomes in Europe

Zibell, Laurent; Allen, Peter M. - 2014

scientific competence, innovation-related management competence and cultural features. Empirical validation was performed on 92 R … in ontology, where partner organisations live in different intellectual worlds. Combined competence in management of R …&D operations has a significant, positive influence on project outcomes, which means that project management procedures valid for …

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Challenges and Trade-Offs in Corporate Innovation for Climate Change

Pinkse, Jonatan; Kolk, Ans - 2014

The international debate on addressing global climate change increasingly points at the role that companies can play by using their innovative capacity. However, up till now companies have been rather cautious in taking decisive steps in facilitating an innovation-based transition towards a...

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Teaching Management to Engineering Students : Acting as a Learning Organization

Silva, Artur; Figueiredo, Antonio Dias de - 2009

This paper summarizes an experience in teaching Management to undergraduate Engineering students. The aim was to enable …, motivate, lead and coach students in learning management skills and concepts through their engagement in organizational and … management work. This was closely associated with their reflection on such practice, and was complemented with theoretical …

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Measuring Sustainability by Environmental Innovativeness : Results from Action Research at a Multinational Corporation in Germany

Adamczyk, Sabrina; Hansen, Erik G.; Reichwald, Ralf - 2014

Corporate sustainability is increasingly regarded as a management task. Thereby, especially environmental performance …

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Blonde Biographies

Hemmingson, Michael - 2008

In this paper, I argue that constant and continued news coverage of celebrities create a de facto visual biography in serial form. nfotainment seems to have a penchant for blondes, such as Paris Hilton, Anna Nicole Smith, Natalee Holloway, Amber Fry, etc. These news stories get more coverage...

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