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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"Inter-firm networks"”.
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Friends or Neighbors? The Effects of Inter-firm Networks and Clusters on Technological Innovations in the U.S. Semiconductor Industry
… by an overarching research question: How do firms leverage external resources residing in their ego network (portfolio of alliances) and their clusters in order to innovate in a sustained manner? Research suggests that firms often struggle and falter in their innovation efforts. However, past …
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Knowledge Flows and Networks: the Interplay between Local and Global Linkages within Bangalore IT Cluster
… and strategic implications. Alliances, networks and personnel mobility are acknowledged as the three main channels of inter-firm knowledge flows, thus offering three heterogeneous measures to analyze the phenomenon. The interplay between the three channels and the richness of available …
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Essays on Organizational Network Communities and Firm Innovation Performance
… and an overview of the organizational networks and innovation literature. The chapter introduces the core issues and theoretical debates at the intersection of organizational networks and innovation. It argues that in today’s ever changing and knowledge intensive business landscape, …
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Competitive advantage by customer integration. Empirical investigation by the example of German manufacturers of baggage handling systems.
… are among the most important challenges for firms. In order to remain competitive in the future, German manufacturers have to force the application of innovative state- of-the-art methods to develop competitive advantages to attract and bind customers and to differentiate themselves from …