Download or read book Fostering Local Entrepreneurship in a Multinational Enterprise written by Joe J. Amberg and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-01-20 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Corporate entrepreneurship involves new business creation within established companies, the strategic renewal of existing business, and, ultimately, the search for sustainable competitive advantage in an increasingly globalised economy. Yet it remains elusive for many firms. In a collaboration between a practitioner and academic, Joe J. Amberg and Sara L. McGaughey explore corporate entrepreneuring within a large conglomerate multinational enterprise: Siemens AG. In early 2009, following a prolonged period of business stagnation and a huge bribery scandal, Siemens’ top management identified a severe lack of entrepreneurship as a critical issue. The strengthening of ‘local entrepreneurship’ became a new priority in the strategic planning for 2010 to 2014. By examining three contrasting ventures in the Siemens business unit Fire Safety between 2008 and 2012, the authors identify key drivers and impediments that sustain inertia in corporate entrepreneuring within this global organisation. This study offers an insightful contribution to our growing – yet still fledgling – understanding of corporate entrepreneurship in global corporations, highlighting the importance of context, interdependencies between critical factors, and the false promise of universal best practice.

Download or read book How Can Local Entrepreneurship be Fostered in Multinational Organisations written by Joe Amberg and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Answering the many calls for more empirical research in the domain of corporate entrepreneurship, this thesis presents an exploration of potential activities apt to foster entrepreneurial activity in Siemens AG. Siemens is widely considered an industrial conglomerate and one of the oldest companies among the top global players, ranked 40th in the Global 500 Fortune list of 2010. In 2009, Siemens' top management identified a severe lack of entrepreneurship throughout the company as a critical issue, and as a new key action in the strategic planning of 2010 to 2014. In this context, this thesis addresses the question: "How can entrepreneurship be strengthened within local Siemens organisations?" Based on a preliminary literature review and pilot study, the research focusses on aspects of structural arrangements, temporal orientation, and mandates granted to local subsidiaries and their relationships in fostering local entrepreneurship among the multinational's subsidiaries.Within Siemens, three cases were investigated. First, the acquisition and integration of Shinwha Electronics in South Korea, explored in the pilot study, was further analysed. A business venturing endeavour explicitly declared as "entrepreneurial", sponsored by the top management and taking place entirely in the Siemens existing organisation of Fire Safety was taken as the second case. The carve-out of the security business - consisting, significantly, of two "failed" acquisitions - was selected as the third case. These three cases represent a unique combination :the first case revealed differences in entrepreneurial behaviour by contrasting existing Siemens entities with the entrepreneurial acquired firm; the second case was informative about "genuine" entrepreneurial activity taking place entirely within the Siemens entity; and the third case illustrated the limitations to business opportunity recognition and exploitation in the Siemens context. In the Siemens context, the findings identified five specific areas of practice that were key to fostering or impeding corporate entrepreneurship: (1) a weak emphasis on business innovations and opportunity recognition on the sales side, (2) the insufficient scope of current subsidiary mandates, (3) the need to extend the established Siemens culture of mature, well specified processes of business exploitation to exploration, (4) a revised set of criteria used by human resources in recruitment, promotion, training and rewards, and (5) a greater emphasis on long term orientation and management decisiveness. Contributions to theory include the extension of existing conceptual models on corporate entrepreneurship to offer a more complete picture of factors affecting corporate entrepreneurship at different levels of organisation within conglomerate multinational enterprises.

Download or read book Local Economic and Employment Development LEED Culture and Local Development written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2005-04-21 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This publication highlights the impact of culture on local economies and the methodological issues related to its identification.

Download or read book The Role of Business in Fostering Peaceful Societies written by Timothy L. Fort and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-11-11 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 2004, this book offers a fresh approach to understanding responsible business practice. Global protests against multinational companies often give the misleading impression that the interests of multinationals and of peaceful societies are at odds. By contrast, Fort and Schipani contend, not only does business benefit from a peaceful environment but it can in fact effectively foster peace through adopting responsible and open working methods. Firms that promote economic development, that allow external evaluation of their affairs and that build a sense of community both within the company and in their local areas make a great contribution to building a more harmonious culture. Relevant for academics and practitioners, the book shows how companies can encourage collaborative working across borders, discourage corruption and create citizenship and problem-solving practices which tend to reduce violence and increase social harmony.

Download or read book Digital Business and Sustainable Development written by Yongrok Choi and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-03-16 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Internet has ushered in a new era in the economies of networking. With the increasing need for optimization based on these network economies, the IT-based e-business has become a platform for study as well as daily practice. In a similar vein, global warming has raised many issues which come into conflict with traditional research and policies. The Internet revolution has also shifted our society from a government- and company-led economy to a ‘netizen’- and consumer-led business world. This book enlightens us on why a harmonized participation of traditional network members or interested groups is necessary and how we can create values from diverse fields of interests and objectives, including the corporate social responsibility (CSR) and eco-friendly productivity. Digital Business and Sustainable Development integrates the platforms from these two fields of study based on the comparative analysis of Asian and other developing countries.

Download or read book Women Entrepreneurship in Family Business written by Vanessa Ratten and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-08-04 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this book is to promote discussion about educational objectives generally and objectives in the teaching of educational psychology in particular. To this end, Part 1 contains a review of the literature concerned with these two subjects, and also reports on investigations into the views of British students, teachers, college staffs and educational psychologists on the question of the objectives of educational psychology in teacher preparation. A comprehensive bibliography is provided. A further important section of Part 1 proposes a method of systematizing teaching objectives, and suggests a heuristic device for the generation of objectives at different levels of conceptual generality and complexity of learning. An example of this model in the field of educational psychology is presented, which illustrates the general approach to the generation of teaching objectives and proposes a specific approach to the production of teaching objectives in educational psychology. In Part 2 a selection of readings in the fields of objectives and educational psychology provides the reader with some of the key source material referred to in Part 1. As well as being a valuable and stimulating addition to the current debate on the specifying of educational objectives, the arguments in this book about the role of educational psychology in teacher preparation raise some fundamental questions for those concerned with teacher education.

Download or read book Entrepreneurship Innovation and Smart Cities written by Vanessa Ratten and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-06-26 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Global competitiveness of cities -- 2 Regional development of cities -- 3 Innovation systems and multiple helix ecosystems -- 4 Social innovation, knowledge and networks in smart cities -- 5 Sustainable entrepreneurship in cities -- 6 Institutional entrepreneurship and urban planning -- 7 Entrepreneurial universities -- 8 The future of smart cities -- Index

Download or read book Unlocking the Emperor s Door written by Christopher Sheedy and published by Nicholas Brealey. This book was released on 2021-05-04 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every Western business leader wants to know more about China in order to enjoy a greater chance of business success in China. They also need to understand how and why Chinese businesses are spreading throughout the world, particularly under the new 'One Belt, One Road' initiative. However, few seek advice from those who best know the answers - Chinese business people. In Unlocking the Emperor's Door, we utilize exclusive and unparalleled access to multi-billionaire Li Jinyuan and his multinational Tiens Group as a case study to show how it's done in the broader context of a fast-changing China and a complex world.

Download or read book Gender and Family Entrepreneurship written by Vanessa Ratten and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-20 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on gender and family entrepreneurship, as they are interrelated concepts particularly important in today’s global society. The book highlights the significance of the role of gender in the development and growth of family businesses. It helps readers understand the role of family dynamics in business, particularly in terms of succession planning, strategic development and internationalization. Often, both gender and family entrepreneurship are studied independently, but this book aims to marry both perspectives with a novel approach. This creates a synergy between gender and family entrepreneurship that increases the potential value to entrepreneurship scholarship, policy and business practice. This edited book is a useful and insightful addition to the entrepreneurship field.

Download or read book Human Resource Management and the Global Financial Crisis written by Ashish Malik and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-06 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyses managerial responses and people management strategies and processes adopted to deal with the challenges imposed by the Global Financial Crisis (GFC). It examines how key actors in the system exercised strategic choices in a given strategic environment, as well as how they responded and developed strategies in this globally integrated industry, in an emerging market context. The book focuses on the nature of strategic choices available to firms in the Indian information technology (IT) and knowledge and business process outsourcing (K and BPO) industry. It looks at how these Indian firms in the IT industry exercise their strategic choices to deal with their routine business and how these routines were changed through learning and investment in certain HR and management practices in times of crisis. Additional insights from other national and industry contexts are also provided for wider coverage of how the GFC-affected organisations frame their responses to deal with it. The book examines the changes in the human resource processes and how organisations adjust their operant business models to deal with the pressures brought about by the crisis.

Download or read book Internal Marketing written by Tatsuya Kimura and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-04-21 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Establishing, developing, or promoting a brand or product in a market stems from aligning of divisions within an organization, with the perspective of providing value to customers – an idea which is known as internal marketing. Unlike external marketing, internal marketing ensures that organizational divisions are aligned in the marketing strategies, so that the resultant external marketing is effective and not impeded by internal shortcomings. This book provides a comprehensive review of internal marketing research and illustrates the role of internal marketing in enhancing the capabilities of a company’s internal resources. Putting forward a guiding principle for business practices by considering such questions from a multilateral perspective, this book is a must-read for practitioners and academics alike.

Download or read book Management Control Systems in Japan written by Takashi Shimizu and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-03-27 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the world's third-ranking economic power, Japan's style of management, such as the lifetime employment system, the seniority system, and an enterprise union, has been well studied. However, little else is known about the Japanese management control systems (MCSs) and management accounting systems, which are significantly different from other economic powers. This book sheds light on Japanese MCSs and the differences with those of the United States, illustrated with examples from Mitsubishi Electric, Kao, and more. This book aids not only researchers in management accounting, but also provides more useful insight for international investors and management accountants that can prove useful in business management.

Download or read book Japanese Management in Evolution written by Tsutomu Nakano and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-20 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Japanese Management in Evolution illustrates the significant changes that have been taking place in Japanese business by focusing on "emerging industries" in the relatively neglected service and "creative" sectors as well as other key industries, and to put those changes in historical perspective by providing an overview of business development since World War II. By employing state-of-the-art research techniques and unconventional innovative approaches in analysing Japanese management – including network and discourse analysis, ethnographic explorations, and more – the book reveals historical developments and in-depth analyses of established and emerging composition of sectors and industries where cultural capital matters. Throughout the book, the common theme conveyed to readers is a consistently strong message that the change is ongoing and the evolution of management style is real in the Japanese context. The book would be of great interest to researchers, academics and practitioners in fields of global management, international management, and Asian capitalism.

Download or read book Developmental Liberalism in South Korea written by Chang Kyung-Sup and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-05-07 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book characterizes South Korea’s pre-neoliberal regime of social governance as developmental liberalism and analyzes the turbulent processes and complex outcomes of its neoliberal degeneration since the mid-1990s. Instead of repeating the politically charged critical view on South Korea’s failure in socially inclusionary and sustainable development, the author closely examines the systemic interfaces of the economic, political, and social constituents of its developmental transformation. South Korea has turned and remained developmentally liberal, rather than liberally liberal (like the United States), in its economic and sociopolitical configuration of social security, labor protection, population, education, and so forth. Initially conceived in the late 1980s, ironically along its democratic restoration, and radically accelerated during the national financial crisis in the late 1990s, South Korea’s neoliberal transition has become incomparably volatile and destructive, due crucially to its various distortive effects on the country’s developmental liberal order.

Download or read book Bridges Between Tradition and Innovation in Ethnomedicine written by Maria Costanza Torri and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-08-03 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Community-based enterprises are the result of a process in which the community acts entrepreneurially to create and operate a new enterprise embedded in its existing social structure and network. This book argues that community-based enterprise could represent a strategy for fostering sustainable local development while at the same time maintaining traditional knowledge in ethnomedicine and conserving the local ecosystems.

Download or read book When Entrepreneurship Becomes a National Enterprise written by Seungah Sarah Lee and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why and how do countries adopt global models for development for their national contexts? And what happens when a widely promoted model for development becomes adopted in an unlikely context? This dissertation examines the process by which a cultural ideology of "entrepreneurship for development" becomes adopted and carried out in an unlikely context: the Arab Gulf. Entrepreneurship has gained increasing attention within international development discourse, being taken for granted as an integral part of the global sustainable development regime by the twenty-first century. Examining international development organizations' documents around entrepreneurship from 1950 to 2019, this dissertation first asserts that entrepreneurship for development moved from an economic to a social frame by the twenty-first century, where entrepreneurship increasingly becomes a way to solve all sorts of development challenges. As the scope of entrepreneurship within international development expands, understanding of who an entrepreneur can be also expands to be inclusive of all people, reflecting a global culture that increasingly emphasizes the role of empowered individuals to contribute towards progress and social change. The global rise of the notion for entrepreneurship for development and a culture that emphasizes the ways that empowered individuals can contribute to development through their entrepreneurial skills and activities have influenced countries around the world, especially those in the Global South, to promote and implement policies and programs for entrepreneurship development. The wealthy, autocratic Arab Gulf states too have jumped on the global bandwagon of entrepreneurship for development, incorporating entrepreneurship into their respective national development agendas. But consider the strangeness of a state-driven hype around entrepreneurship in a rentier, autocratic context such as the Arab Gulf, where production of a strong, entrepreneurial private sector that emphasizes the role of empowered individuals could conflict with rentier governance patterns that strengthen the state's position. Yet, Arab Gulf rulers have articulated entrepreneurship as a way forward and are calling for their citizens, especially their youth, to become entrepreneurs. So then, why and how do the Arab Gulf states incorporate and institutionalize promotion of entrepreneurship as a part of their national development narrative? How do top-down efforts to foster local, national entrepreneurship influence the ways entrepreneurship support organizations, who function as intermediaries between entrepreneurs and the entrepreneurship ecosystem, view their organizational purposes and act? How do entrepreneurship development efforts in the Arab Gulf states influence the lived experiences of entrepreneurs themselves? Drawing upon analysis of Arab Gulf national development documents, speeches of Gulf rulers, and observing when and how organizations within the entrepreneurship ecosystem became founded, I illustrate how the Arab Gulf rulers utilize rhetoric and founding of organizations to introduce and institutionalize entrepreneurship as a part of their national development narrative. In doing so, this dissertation argues that Arab Gulf rulers are working to foster an entrepreneurial citizenry, shifting Gulf development patterns from that of patron-client relations to that of shared responsibility. However, state efforts are insufficient to foster local entrepreneurship in an emerging, nascent ecosystem. In fact, the role of intermediary organizations, i.e., entrepreneurship support organizations such as incubators and accelerators, play a significant role in structuring entrepreneurship ecosystems and fostering entrepreneurial activities. I proceeds to examine how entrepreneurship support organizations in Arab Gulf states navigate and enact a top-down entrepreneurship ecosystem amidst an institutional and structural environment that makes cultivation of local, national entrepreneurship challenging. I find that Arab Gulf entrepreneurship support organizations reframe their purposes to culture and mindset shifting towards entrepreneurship, looking to the number of training programs delivered and participants as measures of success over the number of startups launched. Additionally, these organizations do not limit their participant pool to local, national populations but open their programs for all in the effort to fill the gap with globally sourced talent. From the organizations' perspective, they are able to legitimate themselves and find meaning in their work by linking their theory of action to contributing to the national development narratives that place entrepreneurship as a way forward. The organizations' focus on shifting mindsets and attracting global talent to launch high-growth startup activities, however, result in a situation where young, aspiring local entrepreneurs who grew up with the national narrative around entrepreneurship development have to reckon with a reality of an entrepreneurship ecosystem that does not seem to deliver the seeming promises of the state and organizations to support them in their endeavors to launch entrepreneurial ventures. Drawing upon interviews with young, early-stage entrepreneurs and observations of a university-based accelerator, I find that seed accelerator programs become a place of reckoning for early-stage local entrepreneurs, as they find that programs for them do not receive as much staff attention and do not have access to key networking and funding opportunities compared to other programs that are targeted at a more global and mature entrepreneur audience. Furthermore, participation in acceleration programs also becomes a place where local youth experiences diverge greatly according to nationality. Long-term residents of the Arab Gulf states who consider the Gulf their home find that opportunities for them to engage in entrepreneurial activities locally are limited and that it is almost impossible for them to succeed as an early-stage local entrepreneur unless they have national partners. This is reflective of the larger socioeconomic structures of the Arab Gulf that excludes and distances local, non-national populations. The national youth find a gap in their expectations, often being surprised that they face barriers and are unable to access funding or resources they thought they would have access to despite their national status. This leads to a sense of disillusionment around the promise and hype of entrepreneurship among local youth--the demographic population in which the Gulf states have promoted entrepreneurship the most.

Download or read book Fostering Global Entrepreneurship Through Business Model Innovation written by Gupta, Varun and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2023-12-21 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the wake of the pandemic, the global business landscape has experienced unprecedented turbulence, challenging startups and established enterprises equally. This crisis has forced a profound reevaluation of traditional business models, pushing entrepreneurs and business leaders to innovate like never before. The urgency to adapt, particularly for those seeking to expand globally, has become a daunting task. How can entrepreneurs navigate this new, unpredictable terrain and find innovative pathways to success? Fostering Global Entrepreneurship Through Business Model Innovation answers the pressing predicament faced by entrepreneurs, startups, and business leaders in this age of uncertainty. This book has meticulously documented and analyzed real-world practices of startups that not only survived the pandemic but thrived through groundbreaking business model innovations.