This paper is written to explore the converging economics, politics and networks of family business in the knowledge economy. Knowledge provides the family the trigger to perform well in the face of competition from the public sector and multinationals

The goal of this study is to research the impact of resource based view in explaining the phenomenon of globalization. Globalization broadbased the demand and supply of valuable resources. The main contribution of resource based view - VRIN resources which are Valuable, Rare, Inimitable and No...

The Internet has been acknowledged to be an extraordinary tool to handle and distribute information. Already, corporations from General Electric to Manpower Inc. are looking at ways to channel the internet's vast resources to cut costs, build profit, spot market trends early, swap manufacturing...

I began with an analysis of how the psychology of cognition and knowledge have changed in between the the networked form of organization. Specifically, there is a shift in focus from hardware psychology of information to software psychology of knowledge and schema biases. Powerful knowledge...

Today’s world is a consumerist world and globalization has given the consumer a range of choice. But the main benefit has been at the elite level where in today’s elite studies at Harvard, vacations in Switzerland, buys luxury products from France and lives a jet setting life style. By...

Technological change in the network (ICT) industry has been well noted. Can Technological change be addressed by board of directors of these companies? If so, is it possible for these directors to use their networks to learn or follow fads and cope up with technological change. In this paper...

The case of IBM and Cisco are compared to show the importance of partnership and value creation in the current innovation model. IBM preferred to bully its competitors, employees and customers to make money from its innovation. Cisco partnered with companies such as Apple to create a partner...

This paper aims to provide insight into the choice of foreign mode of entry (as proxied by equity stakes) of Singaporean Multinationals. An eclectic framework based on the Hill, Hwang and Kim's (1990) study is used to model the choice of entry mode behavior. Three broad categories of variables,...