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Showing 1 to 20 of 72 for “"large corporations"”.
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The objectives of large corporations: some empirical evidence
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How to re-energize R&D organization in large corporations in mature industries : the impact of hot groups
… development (R & D) operations, especially in large corporations in mature industries, is a critical challenge. I hypothesized that very creative groups, what some have termed "hot groups," can be formed even in such organizations and that they may have an impact on the entire organization. A …
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Commercialization of nanotechnologies
… strategies between startup firms and large corporations; the managerial and technical challenges facing nanotechnology based companies; the critical success factors in commercializing nanotechnologies; and the factors limiting the adoption and diffusion of nanotechnologies. The results …
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The Relationship Between Foreign Direct Investment and a Regional Industrial System: An Analysis of Interregional and Intra-Corporation Linkages of Foreign-Owned Manufacturing Establishments
… fact that many sectors may be subdivisions of large corporations, control of which lies outside the region. This externality can be of a national or multinational character, the latter being central to this thesis.
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The relationship between retrenchment, organisational commitment, absenteeism and labour turnover in an information technology call centre
… despite the current positive trends, many large corporations are compelled to reduce personnel costs. Retrenchments have therefore become an increasingly common occurrence within South Africa. This has had an impact on the level of organisational commitment, absenteeism and turnover. …
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Free Trade is Not Free: A Case for Fair Trade
… These interventions solely encourage and protect large corporations and investors rather than the actual development and sustainability factors, namely labor and the environment. It all adds up to a compelling case for developing and implementing a fair trade regime.</p>
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The Role of Leaders and Intrapreneurial Employees in Large Technology Corporations: A Qualitative Study
… amount of competition in the global marketplace. Large corporations are at risk of disruption by global competitors, particularly the start-up community. In today’s highly competitive environment, the goal of every business is to get ahead: this is known as ‘competitive advantage.’ One way to …
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Essays on Science and Innovation
… innovation has traditionally been the purview of large corporations operating central R&D laboratories through much of the past century. The past four decades have seen this model being gradually supplanted by a more decentralized system of universities and VC-backed startups that have displaced …
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How a project management office can help the Icelandic gaming industry achieve its goals
… a functional entity that does not only provide large corporations with the means to monitor large project portfolios and develop standards for them, but also takes on the role of project management to resolve some of the problems facing IGI.
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Taintx: A System for Protecting Sensitive Documents
… due to downsizing. Most of those people work for large corporations and have access to important company documents. There have been several studies suggesting that employees are taking critical information after learning they will be laid off. This becomes an issue and a threat to a corporation's …
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When startups start down : how leadership, vision, strategy and design can enable a startup to breakdown the barriers killing the company
… can be exciting places to work. Unlike many large corporate environments, startups offer new challenges almost every day, innovation is a sine qua non, and the rewards can be colossal both from financial and intellectual perspectives. People in startups can make their own rules, and change …
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Expatriate selection : are high self-monitors better expatriates?
… an international scale has been the reality for large corporations for many years. To penetrate these new markets abroad, many firms have decided to use expatriates. It has been well documented in the literature that expatriate assignments are subject to very high failure rates. In the literature …
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Firewall information and security visualization : improving the usage and adoption of modern network firewalls by novice users
… firewalls are more at risk than those of large corporations. Our hypothesis for this research is that many of the users who install personal firewalls lack the knowledge to properly configure them. We propose that the problem with a personal firewall is that most users do not have the …
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How to apply entrepreneurial tools to corporations, easily!
Corporations can benefit from leveraging commonly used emerging entrepreneurial tools such as hackathons and accelerators to achieve their innovation goals, but the answer of how to do so is not as simple as they wish. Many large corporations are eager to partner with entrepreneurs or startups and …
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Corporate venture capital : transforming CVC into an effective corporate strategic tool for seeking innovation and growth in the 21st Century
… of innovation has hampered the growth of many large corporations as they seek to remain competitive in increasingly challenging conditions. To complement, and at times, replace their internal Research and Development activities, corporations have attempted to seek innovation externally, through …
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Mississippi Motoring: Mom And Pops And Entrepreneurs
… and gas stations survive as franchises and as large corporations with brand recognition and homogenization? Beyond plastic wrapped food with expiration dates that go into another decade, Mississippi gas station food is unique and gives insight to local flavor and customs. This thesis explores …
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A study of corporate entrepreneurship in the semiconductor industry
… R&D, dying start-up ecosystem have led the large corporations to consider corporate entrepreneurship to boost the innovation possibilities. In the past 20 years, many large semiconductor corporations have established corporate venture capital units and other initiatives to foster innovation …
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Appalachian Church Leaders: An IPA Study to Understand Their Experiences with Substance Misuse
… art, and culture. Due to a history of abuse from large corporations, the impact of the decline in coal mining and generational poverty, the region is currently on a road toward recovery. Substance misuse rates are disproportionality high, and there are limited resources available to address the …
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A fast way to locate the item regions of gray level images of cheques
In the business transactions of large corporations such as utility companies and banks, many cheques are being processed on a regular basis. Automatic reading of bank cheques is an active topic in Document Analysis. A machine capable of reading bank cheques will have wide applications in banks and …
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