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Adding value through human resources: Reorienting human resource measurement to drive business performance
Yeung, Arthur K.; Berman, Bob - 1997
) measurement: (1) Do HR practices impact business results? (2) How can HR practices add value to business performance? (3) What HR … measures can drive business performance? Using Eastman Kodak as a case study, this article identifies three paths through which … HR practices contribute to business performance: (1) by building organizational capabilities; (2) by improving employee …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009476519
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If HR were really strategically proactive: Present and future directions in HR's contribution to competitive advantage
Brockbank, Wayne - 1999
Current business conditions mandate greater competitive advantage from HR agendas and processes. To add greater … value either reactively or proactively. In its strategically reactive mode, HR assumes the existence of a business strategy … and adds value by linking HR practices to the business strategy and by managing change. In its strategically proactive …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009476520
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Evolutionary diffusion: internal and external methods used to acquire encompassing, complementary, and incremental technological changes in the lithotripsy industry
Nagarajan, Anuradha; Mitchell, Will - 1998
&D. Our theory draws on perspectives that emphasize the need to develop new competencies within a business organization and to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009476521
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Firm and environmental influences on the mode and sequence of foreign research and development activities
Penner-Hahn, Joan Diane - 1998
This paper develops an explanation for the mode and sequence of entry that firms select for their international research and development activities. The hypotheses are based on the internalization and evolutionary theory perspectives. I first hypothesize that there is a sequence to the mode of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009476522
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Entry into new market segments in mature industries: endogenous and exogenous segmentation in the U.S. brewing industry
Swaminathan, Anand - 1998
I evaluate two processes, niche formation and resource-partitioning, that could independently account for the entry of firms into new market segments in mature industries. The niche formation argument focuses on environmental changes that promote the entry of new firms whereas the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009476523
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How much do your co-opetitors' capabilities matter in the face of technological change?
Afuah, Allan - 2000
Firms often lose their competitive advantage when a technological change renders their existing capabilities obsolete. An important question that has received little or no attention is, what happens to these firms’ competitive advantage when the technological change instead renders obsolete...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009476525
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Learning and protection of proprietary assets in strategic alliances: building relational capital
Kale, Prashant; Singh, Harbir; Perlmutter, Howard - 2000
One of the main reasons that firms participate in alliances is to learn know-how and capabilities from their alliance partners. At the same time firms want to protect themselves from the opportunistic behavior of their partner to retain their own core proprietary assets. Most research has...
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Absolute and relative resources as determinants of international acquisitions
Anand, Jaideep; Delios, Andrew - 2002
Although it is established that firms sometimes expand abroad to augment their capabilities, previous studies have generally focused on technological determinants of foreign expansion. We analyze capability-seeking aspects of foreign direct investment by examining the relationship between...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009476527
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Corporate elites and corporate strategy: how demographic preferences and structural position shape the scope of the firm
Jensen, Michael; Zajac, Edward J. - 2004
management team member), generate very different strategic outcomes. Our detailed empirical findings, based on extensive … units of analysis (e.g., board of directors or top management team) when studying the influence of corporate elites on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009476528
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The scope and governance of international R&D alliances
Oxley, Joanne E.; Sampson, Rachelle C. - 2004
Participants in research and development alliances face a difficult challenge: how to maintain sufficiently open knowledge exchange to achieve alliance objectives while controlling knowledge flows to avoid unintended leakage of valuable technology. Prior research suggests that choosing an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009476529