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Showing 1 to 20 of 29 for “"Firm Strategy"”.
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Technology acquisition through licensing. Implications for firm strategy
… diffusion of markets for technologies. Firms are shifting from a tactical to a strategic attitude towards licensing, addressing both business and corporate level objectives. The Open Innovation Paradigm has been embraced. Firms rely more and more on collaboration and external sourcing of …
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Firm Strategy and Research and Development: A Game Theoretic Approach
The research and development decision pivots on many important variables--some beyond the control of the decision maker. One of these variables is the presence or absence of patent protection. The possibility of imitation adds additional uncertainty into the decision. The riskiness of the project …
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Firm strategy and knowledge management in strategic supply chain relationships : a knowledge-based view
… seeks to understand the relationship between firm strategic orientation and interorganizational knowledge management in strategic supply chain alliances of high technology firms. Unique to prior literature, this study relates three dimensions of strategic orientation (alliance, leadership, and …
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Financialisation of the professional services firm : strategy, governance and the lived experience of partners
… the effects of “financialisation” on the strategy and governance of the contemporary UK professional services firm (PSF) and the lived experience of its partners. The study is placed in the context of change, externally in the regulation and competitive environment of PSFs, and internally …
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Thomas Duff & Co and the Jute Industry in Calcutta, 1870-1921: Managing Agents and Firm Strategy
… shaping the business environment in which the firm operated by anticipating and neutralising threats to their control of the directorate, intervening in the supply chain to manage costs and cajoling other managing agents to cooperate to manage competition. The success of these strategies led to …
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Supply chain innovations & firm strategy: pathways to manage institutional voids in emerging markets. Case study of manufacturing firms in Uganda
… under pressure, which has impacted manufacturing firms' operational efficiencies. The overarching purpose of this study was to investigate why and how manufacturing firms in Uganda should apply supply chain innovations and firm strategies to ameliorate institutional voids. Extant literature shows …
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A theory of product-based competition
… in the context of multi-product manufacturing firms. In particular, it achieves three goals. First, it creates a dynamic theory which integrates product design, product manufacturing, and firm strategy. Second, it develops a methodology for calculating real measures of a firm's manufacturing …
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Strategic change and the coevolution of industry-university relationships : evidence from the forest products industry
… relationship and its changes over time as the firm's strategies evolve. We analyze the strategic trajectories of nine European and North American forest products companies, distilling four generic strategies, and linking those strategies to each company's university relationships as judged by …
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AN INVESTIGATION INTO THE CURRENT MANAGEMENT ACCOUNTING PRACTICES AND THE CONTINGENT ASPECTS THAT HAVE PROMPTED SAUDI AND NON-SAUDI MANUFACTURING FIRMS TO ADOPT OR NOT ADOPT MODERN MANAGEMENT ACCOUNTING SYSTEMS: THE CASE OF THE EASTERN PROVINCE OF SAUDI ARABIA
… practices in Saudi and non-Saudi manufacturing firms that operate in the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia, and the internal and external contingent aspects that prompted these firms to adopt or not to adopt advanced management accounting practices. In order to achieve the aforementioned aims, a …
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The Effect of Executive Style on Risk Management: A Healthcare Supply Chain Context
… The effect of a manager, who operationalizes firm strategy, may impact the maturity level of a hospital’s risk management efforts. Through multi-method research, this study seeks to understand the effects of management on healthcare risk management maturity. Survey and interview methods were …
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Three Essays on Strategic Capital Allocation
… billion in the U.S. annually) and critical to firm strategy. Yet since Bower's 1986 book, the topic has been largely ignored in the strategy literature. My dissertation comprises three essays that begin to fill this gap by examining the strategic implications of resource allocation behavior and …
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Expediting organizational transformation in the small firm sector : lessons from the metalworking industry
… of new work organization practices in the small firm, manufacturing sector through an in-depth examination of the metalworking industry in western Massachusetts. An original survey of 46 firms was conducted as were detailed firm-level case studies. Four key questions were addressed through the …
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The relationship between geographic proximity and strategic posture: a longitudinal study of the U.S. fiberoptics industry
… implications of geographic location for firm strategy and for the competitive climate in emerging higher technology industries. Hypotheses are generated based on concepts from institutional theory, transaction costs economics, economic geography, and strategic management. Specifically, …
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Essays on the Locus of Learning and Innovation
… their environments, and the resulting impact on firm strategy. The first essay examines how firms can learn from a diverse set of sources. The returns to social learning are expected to be low in contexts rife with interdependencies, where practices from one context may be incompatible with those …
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From learning to earning: the transition from manufacturing catch-up to competitiveness at the global business frontier, as pursued in China's energy equipment sector
… evolving relationship between the state and firms, one in which the positive contribution of the state tends to diminish as capabilities in the wider economy increase. It does so through an examination of the development of firms in China’s electricity-generating equipment industry since …
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Antecedents and Consequences of Top Management Team Characteristics
… the effects of top management teams (TMTs) on firm performance while adjusting for the endogeneity. The theoretical model proposes that (1) TMT characteristics are influenced by environment, organizational, and leadership (CEO) characteristics, (2) TMT characteristics significantly influences …
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Perceived environment, strategic orientation, ownership effect and performance implications in a transition economy: an empirical study in the People's Republic of China
A key element that enables a firm to achieve better performance is a fit between environment and firm strategy. A review of the literature on strategic management reveals that this relationship is moderated by other contextual variables, and that these contextual variables have not been …
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The Effect of Strategic Orientation and Adaptability on Organizational Behaviors and Performance: The Case of Electronic Commerce in the Hosiery Industry
Research into the interrelationship between firm strategy and firm performance is fairly common. Not as common is the examination of firm behaviors as an intermediate construct between strategy and performance. Additionally, the construct of adaptability, found in previous research to be highly …
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Innovation strategies of New Technology-Based Firms for managing crises: reconciling short-term survival and long-term success. The case of gene therapy pioneers
New Technology-Based Firms (NTBFs) are pioneers in innovation and play a key role in creating and disrupting high-tech industries. However, these firms usually lack product revenues and are initially very reliant on external investments to innovate and to survive. This renders them particularly …
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A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis of the Impact of the Digital Age on the Music Industry
… decided to copy rather than buy. In regard to firm strategy, the model suggests that labels could increase the sales of CDs by trying to increase consumers' taste for music, perhaps by reducing the price of CDs. Our model also predicts a positive relationship between artists' optimal share of …
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