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Showing 1 to 20 of 39 for “"Organizational Capabilities"”.
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Product development processes and their importance to organizational capabilities
… and determining their relationships with organizational capability are crucial to the sustainable success in product development. Studying their relationships would give us insights into the product development dynamics. The objectives of this research are to provide a framework to …
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A Resource -Based View of Strategic Alliances: Organizational Capabilities, Governance, and Performance
Based on the U.S. steel industry data, the results are largely consistent with the general proposition. The results associate some firm resources with alliancing behavior and industry alliancing behavior with increased competitiveness in terms of increased profitability and labor productivity even …
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Organizational capabilities, knowledge, and innovation : strategies for developing the capability to mobilize and create knowledge for innovation
… propositions regarding what companies do at the organizational level and at the project team level when organizing for innovation. In the second phase, I analyzed these propositions and examined which specific factors and strategies have a greater influence on this capability in a sample of 182 …
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Developing and managing organizational capabilities to meet emerging customer needs : insights from the Joint Strike Fighter program
… the development and management of dynamic organizational capabilities. These capabilities include, among other things, how enterprises generate and integrate knowledge, understand and respond to customer needs, manage technological interdependencies, create interorganizational alliance …
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Organizational capabilities, organizational structure, and their dynamics: three essays on boundary choice and capability development in entry decisions
One recent development in the organizational economics approach to strategy management concerns the integration of the organizational capabilities view and the transaction costs theory. My dissertation takes on this task focusing on transaction costs economics, dynamic capabilities, and temporal …
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Organizational identity, organizational capabilities, and the evolution of the multinational corporation : JTech's transmission systems business in the US
… depends upon a subsidiary developing organizational capabilities, how does its identity shape the development of those capabilities? How do the capabilities in turn alter the subsidiary's identity? How does the identity-capability relationship influence the subsidiary's strategy, and …
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Laggard strategy: why a firm is sometimes better off lagging the technology frontier
This dissertation focuses on using organizational capabilities and the anticipated economic payoff from innovation to explain and predict the dynamics of a technological laggard's behavior. The firm capabilities research that focuses on organizational capabilities suggests that a technological …
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A Stakeholder Perspective On Hrm-Performance Linkages
… practices' contribution to building required organizational capabilities. I distinguished between internal stakeholders and external stakeholders and found that stakeholder oriented HRM practices have an effect on organizational effectiveness through enhanced organizational capabilities. Data …
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Evaluate innovative strategies leveraging existing USPS capabilities and resources to advance as a vital 21st century service organization
… history of embracing innovative technologies and organizational transformations to meet the changing needs of the American public. The Postal Service has been exploring innovative strategies to continue to adapt to a rapidly changing digital economy. For a new strategy to be successful it must …
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Resources and capabilities in high-tech enterpreneurship : a study of two generations of Chinese startups
… distinction between external resources and organizational capabilities. Case studies show that external resources are important, but richer resources do not always guarantee a startup's success if they fail to help build organizational capabilities. External resources might even become a …
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Architectural disruption in aerospace
… of architectural disruption and new customer capabilities has the potential to reduce the industry's opportunity to capture value from innovative technologies or a position as first supplier. Historical examples such as Polaroid and IBM demonstrate the organizational paralysis that often …
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Finding the Right Balance: Antecedents and Consequences of Making, Buying, or Concurrently Sourcing Human Capital
Strategically determining organizational boundaries is one means to achieving better performance. This dissertation examines vertical integration, strategic acquisitions and concurrent sourcing to better understand the strategies used to acquire human capital and the impacts of these choices on …
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Facette : using facets to improve tag-based bookmarking
… is a web service that uses facets to enhance the organizational capabilities of tag-based bookmarking systems. As with other bookmarking services, Facette allows users to associate tags with bookmarks to assist the retrieval of information. Facette also allows users to classify tags through use of …
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Exploring capabilities driving SME development of technological readiness within the marine sector
… the chronological evolution path and required capabilities to develop their technology and bring it to the market. Given the vast quantities of untapped renewable energy, the strategic importance of the sector and the emergence of a cluster of such SMEs, this exploratory study focused on how …
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An Analysis of Factors Affecting the Effective Use of Knowledge Management in Counter Improvised Explosive Device (C-IED) Operations
… is determined by the interaction of three organizational capabilities: knowledge infrastructure, knowledge process, and leadership orientation.</p> <p>A self-administrated survey was conducted on 300 NATO staff officers who have served in C-IED environments. A structural equation modeling …
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Facilitating Multidisciplinary Team Functioning in Child and Youth Advocacy Centres using Shared Mental Models
… body of literature which describes various organizational capabilities that influence effectiveness of integrated and inter-professional service delivery initiatives like CAC/CYACs. However, there is also a noted lack of specificity about how these broad factors can be used to improve team …
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Resource-based view of social media as a source of sustained competitive advantage
… can be used to enhance existing resources and capabilities in a firm. These organizational capabilities are hard to imitate because of path dependency, social complexity and causal ambiguity and thus provide the firm sustained competitive advantage. The effective implementation of social media …
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Developing strategies to capture value from emerging technologies
… pursuing disruptive innovations require new organizational capabilities and are often pushing into new markets with unproven technology, they must become masters in dealing with uncertainty. This thesis attempts to provide a holistic and rigorous process to systematically develop and evaluate …
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A study of the factors affecting the sustainability of community managed rural water supply schemes in Sri Lanka
… These include, community leadership and the organizational capabilities of the CBO, ability to raise and manage the necessary finances, choice of technology ensuring ability to maintain and meet water quality needs over the design life, economies of scale, need to move away from voluntary to …
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