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Innovation through networked strategic communities: case study on NTT DoCoMo

Kodama, Mitsuru - In: Journal of Management Development 24 (2005) 2, pp. 169-187

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to identify key factors for generating new knowledge creation in the fields of high tech requiring the integration of a variety of technologies and business models. Design/methodology/approach – The case study will center on NTT DoCoMo, Japan's largest...

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The relationship between top management teams and innovative capacity in companies

Camelo‐Ordaz, Carmen; Hernández‐Lara, Ana Beatriz; … - In: Journal of Management Development 24 (2005) 8, pp. 683-705

a positive effect on innovation in companies. In this way, diversity in TMT tenure appears to have a negative influence …. Second, the incidence of diversity on innovation cannot be direct in all cases. Therefore, functional diversity has a … positive effect on innovation, but always when there is a context of strategic consensus in the management team. Finally, TMT …

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Establishing individual differences related to opportunity alertness and innovation dependent on academic‐career training

Craig, Justin B.L.; Johnson, Debra - In: Journal of Management Development 25 (2006) 1, pp. 28-39

guide – individuals who are potentially involved in entrepreneurship can be identified as being innovators or opportunity … entrepreneurship topics these findings have pedagogical and practitioner implications. From a pedagogy vantage point, instructors will … be better equipped to frame courses in entrepreneurship if they better understand the propensity of their audience. The …

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Transparency guru: an interview with Tom McManus

Lazarus, Hal; McManus, Tom - In: Journal of Management Development 25 (2006) 10, pp. 923-936

Purpose – In this interview, Tom McManus and Dr Harold Lazarus explore transparency as both an approach and an outcome in the management of organizations, and the relation of transparency to corporate strategy. The interview aims to offer context and perspective on transparency....

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Transparency and there again: lessons learned at Digital

Hindus, Sharon - In: Journal of Management Development 25 (2006) 10, pp. 1007-1012

Purpose – The purpose of this article is to discuss the author's experiences as a program manager during the 1980s through early 1990s when Digital went from a booming $15 billion company through break‐up and downsizing, to its purchase by Compaq Computer in 1997. The article aims to provide...

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Challenges facing business schools in the future

Cornuel, Eric - In: Journal of Management Development 26 (2007) 1, pp. 87-92

and quality improvement programmes to prove to the market that they are committed to excellence and innovation …

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Diversity and learning for innovation: dialogue for collaboration

Rose‐Anderssen, Christen; Allen, Peter M. - In: Journal of Management Development 27 (2008) 3, pp. 307-327

Purpose – This paper aims to develop an approach for improving linguistic skills to enhance work collaboration. Design/methodology/approach – A framework has been developed using principles of complex systems thinking, cultural‐historical activity theory and theories of intercultural...

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Technology and the business school world

Fleck, James - In: Journal of Management Development 27 (2008) 4, pp. 415-424

Purpose – This paper aims to consider the range of technologies currently affecting the business school world, and to draw out some of the implications and ramifications that we should bear in mind. Design/methodology/approach – Drawing on insights from other analyses of technology...

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Are business schools studying and teaching the right things?

Ulrich Maerki, Hans - In: Journal of Management Development 27 (2008) 4, pp. 425-430

is imperative that we do this to drive much needed service innovation and to equip graduates for the jobs of tomorrow …

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Making a case for the case method in Turkey

Apaydin, Marina - In: Journal of Management Development 27 (2008) 7, pp. 678-692

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to assess the benefits and drawbacks of the case method, one of the participative learning techniques, and its appropriateness for the Turkish cultural context. It offers an executable strategy for promoting this method in Turkey....

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