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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"Industry Evolution"”.
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Nanotechnology : industry evolution and comparisons
… is not if nanotechnology will develop into an industry, but when might it evolve and deliver on the promises so intrepidly set forth by researchers, corporations, and investors. The when question is debated many times over in today's popular press. For certain, no one is exactly sure what when …
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The future of the wealth management industry : evolution or revolution?
… industries before it, the wealth management industry is facing changing demographics, regulations, and technologies. This thesis examines the major trends impacting the industry, namely regulations and technology, to see where the industry is headed.
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Considering the customer : determinants and impact of using technology on industry evolution
… the influence of customers using a technology on industry evolution and competition? I use two historical cases to answer these questions. The first considers how insurance firms came to initially understand and use the computer in the 1940s and 50s (in collaboration with JoAnne Yates). We argue …
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The Performance Implications of the Evolution of Managerial Capabilities in the Context of Industry Evolution
… into the cellular communications service industry before 1999, and I examine the extent of differences in the development of managerial capabilities and performance among entrants over time. By viewing the selection mechanism at the industry level as operating in conjunction with …
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The Role of Firm Capability, Managerial Cognition, and Ecosystem on Innovation: Investigation of The Satellite Industry
… firm capability interacts with intra-firm and industry factors, and how it impacts organizational outcomes. In the first paper, I review literature on absorptive capacity and distill its distinct effect on various organizational outcomes. I identify key theoretical underpinnings behind the …
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The evolution of the British hotel industry: 1760 – 2010
This PhD by Publication explores the evolution of the British hotel industry from the mid-18th to the early 21st century. The thesis is constructed around five published articles. The five articles comprise: two that research the diffusion of innovation and British hotel industry evolution in the …
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Dynamics and challenges of microgrids implementation
… of microgrids. This study tries to develop an industry perspective on the recent development of microgrids. Several case studies from both developed world and developing world are explained to understand drivers, constraints and challenges of microgrid implementation. A generic model used by …
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Innovation in medical devices : a case study of the coronary stent
… transluminal coronary angioplasty (PTCA) industry. The industry evolution is analyzed within the industrial life cycle framework developed by Utterback, Tushman and others. The coronary stent was first introduced in 1994, and has passed through all of the industry cycle stages: from a …
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Mobile payments : what we can learn from the past
… has emerged, it is nearly impossible to predict industry evolution. This paper tests the hypothesis that (i) because the MP industry is a path dependent system rather than a hysteresis system whose state depends on their immediate history, (ii) we can actually rely on accumulated experiences …
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Temporal changes in marketing mix effectiveness
… (1) changes in market response associated with industry evolution, (2) trends in market response which may be related to changes in consumer knowledge and familiarity with products over time, and (3) changes in market response associated with changes in consumer incomes. In addition, this …
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Producing Popularity: The Success in France of the Comics Series "Astérix le Gaulois"
… lens in an effort to uncover how industry evolution and organization, protectionist legislation, marketing, advertising, branding, and consecration by the media worked interdependently to catapult Astérix, the series' protagonist, into stardom by the middle of the 1960s. In so …
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Select-service hotels : a guide to understanding the lodging industry and one of its most attractive segments
… serves as a pedagogical guide to the hospitality industry, and presents a broad overview of the unique issues that arise through the development, ownership and management of select-service franchised hotels. It attempts to answer the following four questions: * How is the lodging industry …
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Impacts of environmental policy in China's Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region : a case study of the iron and steel industry
… control decisions in the iron and steel industry in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region of China. The analysis presented includes (1) a county-level econometric analysis of the geographic distribution of the iron and steel industry between 2004 and 2009 in Hebei province and (2) a firm-level …
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Industry Emergence and the Underlying Ecosystems
… challenged the classic product innovation and industry evolution theories that are largely based on evidence from the industrial age. Although the stages of industry emergence have been examined, apart from the process perspective, we still need to uncover how the transitions between stages are …
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Organizational capabilities, organizational structure, and their dynamics: three essays on boundary choice and capability development in entry decisions
… capabilities, and temporal dimensions in the evolution of an industry. Essay one provides a constructive literature review on recent works and develops a framework to facilitate further integrative efforts in our inquiry into the firm boundary question. Essay two studies a firm’s boundary …
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Analysis of issues and trends in the growth of fuel cell firms
… in the Gemini space program in 1960s. Technology evolution and the need for a clean energy source for the space program caused the renewed interest in Fuel Cells. A significant amount of progress and numerous investments have been made securing a future for Fuel Cells. The question that remains is …
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The Impact of Varied Knowledge on Innovation and the Fate of Organizations
… and selection at both the firm and the industry level using the emerging industry context of small satellites. My research is divided into three papers. In Paper One, I take a supply-demand perspective and examine how suppliers of technology—with their unique knowledge of science and …