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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"technological uncertainty"”.
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Japanese Innovation Strategy and the Aquisition of UK Information Technology Firms
… for maintaining growth in conditions of technological uncertainty, but typically suffer very high failure rates. This thesis presents a resource-based framework for analysing corporate acquisitions in times of rapid technological change. The thesis discusses how such acquisitions can be …
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Vendor Firm Characteristics and Buyers' Perceptions of Transaction Costs and Relationship Governance
… attributes as antecedents to the opportunism and uncertainty constructs thereby extending the transaction cost research. Specifically, Essay 1 examines how vendor firm size and reputation influence organizational buyers’ a priori perceptions of vendor opportunism and uncertainty.</p> <p>Essay 2 …
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Comparative System Analysis of Reusable Rocket and Air-Breathing Launch Vehicles
… each system's design risk and growth response to technological uncertainty. An additional trade study investigated payloads up to 70,000 lb. The two-stage rocket results showed strong performance in applied metrics. Horizontal takeoff single- and two-stage air-breathers trailed far behind, while …
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Strategic management of operational resources under uncertainty
… questions: (1) What are the impacts of market uncertainty and technological uncertainty? (2) What is the best way for a firm to manage demand information and technological knowledge in the face of competition? The first essay (Chapter 2) investigates a problem of competitive investment with …
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High Technology Commercialisation: A Real Option Approach
The impact of uncertainty in the commercialization lifecycle of new technologies is a complex phenomenon. Technologies are research intensive and exposed to uncertainty regarding their successful development and functionality. Further these technologies have to be absorbed by volatile markets in …
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Value creation in evolving information industries : the effects of U.S. mergers
… We report interesting patterns by focusing on technologically converging industries for the three sectors comprising the information industries: information content, information appliances and information highways. Using a sample of 344 U.S. mergers for the period 1993 to 1997, we examine the …
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Integrated water resources management under uncertainty: exploring interconnected technological, infrastructural and institutional solutions
… under climatic, institutional, agricultural, and technological uncertainty shows significant sensitivity to fluctuations in water conveyance infrastructure costs. Such changes in infrastructure costs (i.e. 50% to 150%) can nearly double the expected costs of reliably supplying water to urban …
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Survivability in Mars transit architectures : analysis framework for failure contingency strategies
… - which at the present time exhibit significant technological uncertainty. An abstracted functional breakdown beginning from assumed mission/campaign objectives and logically required architectural elements is proposed. Such a "generalized architecture" allows for a function-based failure and …
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Discontentment and knowledge spillovers in an emerging high-tech industry: a study of the emergence of the RFID industry
… use or encourage knowledge spillovers to fuel technological innovations during the emergence of a knowledge intensive industry. Drawing on theories of the entrepreneurial process, innovation during industry emergence, and knowledge spillovers, this thesis seeks to explain the process by which …