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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"knowledge flows"”.
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Discussion on relational networks and knowledge flows from a corporate to a regional perspective
… through which is encouraged the spread of knowledge coming to firms and regions from outside many research and studies have been written. The debate has considered many questions and this thesis focuses on two different paths that have in common some forms of inter-firm relationships, that …
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Knowledge Flows and Networks: the Interplay between Local and Global Linkages within Bangalore IT Cluster
… work gains deeper insight into the dynamics of knowledge flows within and across clusters, unfolding their features, directions and strategic implications. Alliances, networks and personnel mobility are acknowledged as the three main channels of inter-firm knowledge flows, thus offering three …
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The local innovation system of the oil and gas industry in the North Sea : the application of patent data in the study of innovation systems
… of systematically and consistently estimating knowledge flows. The use of U.S. patent and patent citation data provides evidence, references, and guidelines to the project from a quantitative perspective. Several indicators were developed to describe these knowledge flows, along with a model …
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Fashion's Influence on Garment Mass Production: Knowledge, Commodities and the Capture of Value
… fashion is a complex and influential form of knowledge. It explores the effects of fashion ideas on the global garment system through a case study of the ideas and commodity flows that bring fashions and garments to the Australian market. It traces the interconnections between global knowledge …
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You Have to Play to Win: Value Capture in Open Innovation
… two parts. First, a theoretical model based on knowledge flows is introduced. Knowledge is at the heart of open innovation and this dissertation examines the role that external and internal knowledge play in firm performance outcomes. It integrates the dynamic capability view and open innovation …
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Universities and Regional Advantage in the Knowledge Economy: Markets, Governance and Networks as Developing in English Regions
… and their regions in the globalising knowledge economy as observed in the UK. It examines institutional responses to two realms of policies, namely, higher education policy and regional development policy. The diversifying missions of universities, especially, the ‘third stream …
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The effect of technological complexity on innovation performance, employee entrepreneurship and mobility: three essays
Technological innovation, knowledge diffusion and employee entrepreneurship and mobility are closely related phenomena. Multiple literature streams in strategy, entrepreneurship and technology management focus on explaining them. However, relatively little is known about the micro-level variation …
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Exploring the Online Farmers’ Market: Neoliberal Venture Capital Meets the Alternative Food Movement
… to increased opportunities for multi-directional knowledge flows. Finally, the hybrid tech-AFN embodies a deeply-rooted clash of ideologies around the role of “food as commodity” and the value of the “technological fix,” both concepts have traditionally been promoted through a neoliberal food …
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The Evolving Project Management Office as a Tacit to Explicit Knowledge Broker
… and efficient retrieval and utilization of knowledge within the organization’s business units. While explicit knowledge is more easily recorded, tacit or qualitative (i.e., “sticky”) knowledge is seldom easy to transfer. Internal sharing and retrieval of this knowledge are essential core …
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High Performance Work Practices, National Culture, and Knowledge Transfer Within U.S. Multinational Corporations
… how high performance work practices influence knowledge transfer within U.S. MNCs. Exploration and exploitation as two types of learning capabilities provided the theoretical basis for the argument. Within an institutional theory framework, I further argued that host countries institutional and …
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Emerging innovation systems in the Baltic States
… major investing countries for their influence on knowledge inflows over time (proxied by patent application in the Baltics originating abroad). Its aim is to explore what actually attracts knowledge into a country/ a system, thus acting as a counterbalance to the second part, which focuses on the …
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The Role of Social Capital in Driving Innovation in Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs): Insights from Nigeria
… theoretical streams: network theory, knowledge-based views, and organisational capability perspectives. Evidence also points to the unresolved theoretical debate regarding the most effective network configuration for innovation, which informed study 2. Building on this foundation, the …
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Knowledge management competence for ERP implementation success
… in recent years, as competition in complex knowledge-based economies has increased. Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems have been viewed as a way to manage increased business complexity, leading to the rapid adoption and implementation of such systems, as ERP can support enterprises …
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Knowledge Networks in Emerging ICT Regional Innovation Systems: An Explorative Study of the Knowledge Network of Trentino ICT Innovation System
… a static point of view, representing a regional knowledge network at a certain point in time, while there are few recent attempts exploring the evolution of knowledge networks and the dynamics that drive it. The present work aims at covering some of the gaps in the literature, using the dataset …
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From Lancashire to Bombay: Commercial Networks, Technology Diffusion, and Business Strategy in the Bombay Textile Industry
… two parts, respectively concerning info rmation flows and knowledge flows from the UK to Western India. The former explores patterns in technological transactions and decisions governing the diffusion of textile technology that enabled industrial establishment. The latter focuses on the …
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Global knowledge networking for the multinational enterprise
… serve as the foundation for a holistic. global knowledge networking strategy for multinational enterprises (MNEs). This thesis is framed in the context of the increasing salience of knowledge for all enterprises, everywhere, today. The uncertainties of the marketplace, global e-business …
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The value of business tourism in the performance of an organisation
… focuses on creating business events to fit the knowledge needs of organisations across a wide range of industries. The business events are of several genre including exhibitions, training seminars, conferences, congresses and trade shows and all have been created for the purpose of helping …