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On the capability of SMEs to innovate: the cable and wire manufacturing sub-sector in Nigeria
Egbetokun, A; Adeniyi, A; Siyanbola, W - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
manufacturing firms in Nigeria. The important factors that accounted for innovation performance were firm-level leadership and use …This study explored the factors that explain innovation capability in SMEs in developing countries. This is important … given the increasing global pressures that these SMEs have to face. The data employed came from a survey of Cable and Wire …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008681009
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Crafting Firm Competencies to Improve Innovative Performance.
Lokshin, Boris; Gils, Anita van; Bauer, Eva - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2008
Recent interdisciplinary research suggests that customer and technological competencies have a direct, unconditional effect on firms' innovative performance. This study extends this stream of literature by considering the effect of organizational competencies. Results from a survey-research...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010856369
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Crafting Firm Competencies to Improve Innovative Performance.
Lokshin, Boris; Gils, Anita van; Bauer, Eva - United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and … - 2008
Recent interdisciplinary research suggests that customer and technological competencies have a direct, unconditional effect on firms' innovative performance. This study extends this stream of literature by considering the effect of organizational competencies. Results from a survey-research...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005150811
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Why New Business Development Projects Fail: Coping with the Differences of Technological versus Market Knowledge
Van Den Bosch, Frans A J; Burgers, Burgers, J.H.; … - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2007
Managing through projects has become important for generating new knowledge to cope with technological and market discontinuities. This paper examines how the fit between the creation of technological and market knowledge and important project management characteristics, i.e. project autonomy...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010731292
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CES 2021 : Tasks for Korean Industries in a Digitally-Transformed World
Shim, Woojung; Kwon, Ohsung; Kim, Jongki - 2023
The Consumer Electronics Show in 2021 featured innovative products for the “changed-everyday” that is expected to characterize the post-COVID-19 world. Such products demonstrate that the so-called “digital transformation” is already well underway.AI is now a mandatory foundational...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014262547
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Learning to Innovate in Nigeria's cable and wire manufacturing sub-sector: inferences from a firm-level case study
Egbetokun, A; Siyanbola, W; Adeniyi, A - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
output of technological learning. This paper evaluates technological learning among firms in the Cable and Wire manufacturing … sub-sector in Nigeria, using a purposively selected case firm. We developed a model of the relationship between the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008678289
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The Dismantling of the Japanese Model in Consumer Electronics The Case of the Digital Amplifier
Christensen, Jens Frøslev; Olesen, Michael Holm; … - DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of … - 2004
This paper addresses an issue of great importance for the future organization of the consumer electronics industry: the "battle" of control over component-based digitization. We are now witnessing the dismantling of the Japanese Model that has prevailed in consumer electronics over the past 30...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005273113
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Value Creation and Profit Optimization
Winther, K. Tobias - EconWPA - 2002
The present paper develops a basic framework for evaluating and optimizing profits in a business operation. In developing a business we are often faced with an infinity of choices ranging from what products or services to sell and what customers to target to how to structure and manage the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005561773
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Global competition in mature industries. Upgrading through manufacturing
Buciuni, Giulio; Corò, Giancarlo; Micelli, Stefano - Centro interuniversitario di Economia Applicata alle … - 2012
Manufacturing industries in developed countries have been experiencing profound changes over the last decade … upgrading. Accordingly, we claim that manufacturing can still play a central role in mature industries and pave the path for a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010895714
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Challenges of exporting differentiated products to developed countries : the case of SME-dominated sectors in a semi-industrialized country
Artopoulos, Alejandro; Friel, Daniel; Hallak, Juan Carlos - 2010
This paper surveys four Argentinean industries light ships, television programs, wines, and wooden furniture that have experienced substantial export growth in recent years, particularly to developed countries. The case studies first describe the structure of the industries, then characterize...
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