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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"business ecosystem"”.
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A Region-based Business Ecosystem for Industrial Upgrading: Evidence from the Electronics Industry of Shenzhen
… adjustments are mainly based on the evolving business ecosystem they inhabit, which comprises region-specific resources that can be flexibly leveraged by players such as local firms and the government. To elucidate the interactive mechanisms among actors that facilitate industrial upgrading …
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Knowledge Sharing and Innovative Strategies in Organisational Collaborative Relationships: The Potential of Open Strategy
… challenges presented by a rapidly changing business environment can be met by collaborative relationships between businesses. Businesses can exchange or share key resources that companies are unable to develop alone. Knowledge is one of the most important organisational resources and one …
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The mobile common : A guide to mobile open source and its effects on mobile device manufacturers
… they haven't had much effect on the industry's business ecosystem or the customers' expectations and demands. The release of the iPhone in 2007 had profound impact not only on dominant design of smartphones and on consumers' expectations, but also on the balance of power in the mobile industry …
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Digital transformation in South African consumer packaged goods companies
… View, Dynamic Capabilities View and Digital Business Ecosystem to understand the intricacies of digital transformation in the CPG industry in South Africa. The study employed a qualitative research approach and semi-structured interviews were used to obtain data from 20 industry …
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OpenSPARC : how giving away CMT chip hardware implementations creates value for Sun microsystems
… market share by increasing its share of the CMT ecosystem, and the share that CMT systems have within the overall computer server business ecosystem. This study explores Sun's motivation behind its investment in the OpenSPARC community, and explains how OpenSPARC creates value for Sun. The …
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Examining the impact of business incubation on the growth of tourism SMMEs: the case of Pilanesberg business Incubator Programme (PBIP)
… enterprise support programmes within the small business ecosystem. In many sectors globally, business incubation is widely regarded as an economic development tool which is commonly used to assist fledgling small business to grow and eventually compete in the market independently. Based on the …
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Kritische Erfolgsfaktoren der wertschöpfungsorientierten Strategie im industriellen Service 4.0
… as well. As a result of these changes, new business models are emerging in this economic sector. One of these, the value chain-oriented strategy, is based upon the typology of Bruhn et al. and is characterized by a high degree of immateriality of the service, a high degree of integration …
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Driven by digital innovations: Regulating connected car data access and use, for Telematics Insurance in Europe.
… automotive industry towards the development of a business ecosystem around the connected car and value proposition that user-generated car data brings. With a focus on balancing the different interests of the stakeholders involved for competition, privacy, and innovation; the position taken in the …
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The effect of institutional turbulence on multinational enterprises' strategies in resource-intensive host markets
… well as their effect on fragile conflict dynamic ecosystems that existed prior to their arrival. Mozambique is used as a case study. The northern province, where internationalisation of foreign oil firms has occurred, has been impacted by a violent insurgency, causing the firms to declare force …
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Value-Based Connected Autonomous Vehicles Business Modeling
… design, value creation, or value exchange in the business ecosystem. A sound knowledge of business operations through business modeling will allow business owners to take proper investment decisions and perform proper risk identification and consequently, choose the appropriate risk management …
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Enterprise architecture driven design of an artefact to support strategic Information Technology decision-making of Small Enterprises in Nigeria and South Africa
… of small enterprises in a contemporary business ecosystem, it is pertinent to strategise IT investment decisions. Enterprise architecture is a well-known approach to business and IT alignment. This study aimsto discover and develop how the complex enterprise architecture principles can …
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Investigating the relationship between ESG factors and firm performance in socially challenged jurisdictions relative to developed jurisdictions
… be to run a similar analysis using unlisted businesses to capture the entire SA business ecosystem. This research study will contribute toward ESG research on South African firms. The study may also have indirect political and social implications in that if there is a prevalent relevance of …
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Intellectual Property Strategy and Ecosystem Evolution
… dynamic and complex technological and business environment. To deal with such complex interdependencies and dynamics in firms’ external environment, the innovation ecosystem, as an emerging lens, has been proposed to complement the traditional industry structure framing in the strategy …
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Identifying Factors Influencing SME Business Continuity in Oman
This study explores Business Continuity (BC) theory and practice, with the main aim being to identify factors that influence SME BC, while recognising practices and interventions that sustained the SME landscape in Oman during the COVID-19 pandemic. In addition, the study contributes to SME BC …
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Ecosystem Orchestration for Firm Growth: A Longitudinal Case Study
… an unexplored yet significant phenomenon, ecosystem-driven corporate growth, by cross-fertilising the theory of the growth of the firm (TGF) and the ecosystem-as-coevolution view. It theoretically explains firm growth with the firm’s ecosystem resource base, and empirically examines the …