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Book Strategic Capabilities and Knowledge Transfer Within and Between Organizations

Download or read book Strategic Capabilities and Knowledge Transfer Within and Between Organizations written by Arturo Capasso and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'A remarkably insightful collection of contributions, combining the strategy capability and the knowledge creation and sharing perspectives. Very useful reading for the serious scholar.' - Yves L. Doz, INSEAD, France This volume is the imaginative outcome of several international strategy scholars who have cultivated original research on the broad relationship between strategic capabilities and knowledge transfer at both intra- and inter-organizational levels.

Book The Strategic Management of Intellectual Capital and Organizational Knowledge

Download or read book The Strategic Management of Intellectual Capital and Organizational Knowledge written by Chun Wei Choo and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2002-04-04 with total page 769 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Increasingly, the challenge of management is to create and supply knowledge in order to sustain organizational performance. However, few books on management strategy have been written using this concept as a foundation. This unique volume adopts a knowledge-based approach that will complement and perhaps supplant other perspectives. Editors Nick Bontis and Chun Wei Choo look at the literature through the lens of strategic management and from the vantage point of organizational science. The thirty readings have been carefully selected and commissioned to provide the best literature available--from articles newly written for this book and from existing publications.

Book Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology  Third Edition

Download or read book Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology Third Edition written by Khosrow-Pour, Mehdi and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2014-07-31 with total page 7972 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This 10-volume compilation of authoritative, research-based articles contributed by thousands of researchers and experts from all over the world emphasized modern issues and the presentation of potential opportunities, prospective solutions, and future directions in the field of information science and technology"--Provided by publisher.

Book The Routledge Companion to Mergers and Acquisitions

Download or read book The Routledge Companion to Mergers and Acquisitions written by Annette Risberg and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-06-19 with total page 567 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mergers and acquisitions (M&As) are events that attract considerable interest from academics and practitioners, and much research has been conducted into their impact on individuals, organizations and societies. Yet, despite all the existing research and the varied theoretical and methodological approaches employed, there remains more to learn about M&As. The Routledge Companion to Mergers and Acquisitions takes a detailed look at this multifacted subject using a novel framework of four domains – substantive issues, contextual issues, methodological issues and conceptual issues. Drawing on the expertise of its international team of contributors, the volume surveys the state of the field, including emerging and cutting-edge areas such as social network analysis and corporate branding. This Companion will be a rich resource for students, researchers and practitioners involved in the study of M&As, and organizational and strategic studies more widely.

Book Cooperative and Networking Strategies in Small Business

Download or read book Cooperative and Networking Strategies in Small Business written by Marta Peris-Ortiz and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-11-03 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book aims to collect the most recent research and best practices in the cooperative and networking small business field identifying new theoretical models and describing the relationship between cooperation and networks in the small business strategy context. It examines different concepts and analytical techniques better understand the links between cooperative strategies and networks in small business. It also studies the existing economic conditions of network and strategic implications to small business from the point of view of their internal and external consistency. Cooperation and networks is a fashionable topic. It is receiving increasing attention in popular management publications, as well as specialized academic journals. Cooperation between firms and industries is a means of leveraging and aggregating knowledge also generating direct benefits in terms of innovation, productivity and competitiveness. Various options and decisions made within the framework of strategic alliances may be identified and differentiated. For example, it has been argued that R&D cooperation between competing firms also facilitates the search for incremental efficiency gains and is thus a competitive advantage. In parallel with a theoretical acceptance of the importance of a sustained competitive advantage to formulate strategy, there is a growing understanding that cooperative and networking behavior among small firms is at the root of many success stories in today's small business management. This condition requires an effort to develop a study of both aspects of cooperation and networks as compatible, complementary facets of a unique reality. In short, the cooperative and networking relationships of a small business can be the source of its competitive advantage. Enhancement of local resources and capabilities for the generation and dissemination of knowledge is still an issue for defining public policies in many countries.Featuring contributions covering such topics as green innovation, social commerce, university cooperation networks, and regional entrepreneurship, this book provides a comprehensive and richly illustrated study of cooperation and networks in small business that will be pertinent to students, academics, professionals, scholars, and policy makers./div

Book Mergers and Acquisitions in Practice

Download or read book Mergers and Acquisitions in Practice written by Shlomo Y. Tarba and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2016-12-08 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The growth in mergers and acquisitions (M&A) activity around the world masks a high rate of failure. M&A can provide companies with many benefits, but in the optimism and excitement of the deal many of the challenges are often overlooked. This comprehensive collection, bringing together an international team of contributors, moves beyond the theory to focus on the practical elements of mergers and acquisitions. This hands-on, step-by-step volume provides strategies, frameworks, guidelines, and ample examples for managing and optimizing M&A performance, including: ways to analyze different types of synergy; understanding and analyzing cultural difference along corporate and national cultural dimensions, using measurement tools; using negotiation, due diligence, and planning to analyze the above factors; making use of this data during negotiation, screening, planning, agreement, and when deciding on post-merger integration approaches. Students, researchers, and managers will find this text a vital resource when it comes to understanding this key facet of the international business world.

Book Handbook of Research on Competitive Strategy

Download or read book Handbook of Research on Competitive Strategy written by Giovanni Battista Dagnino and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 617 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Handbook of Research on Competitive Strategy presents a comprehensive state-of-the-art picture of current strategic management issues and demarcates the major investigation strands that are likely to shape the field into the future. The Handbook is the outcome of a far-reaching endeavour including new contributions from highly-reputed experts around the world, outlining the conceptual and empirical advancements and assessing the promises and practical relevance of the competitive strategy field. Looking at key areas such as alliances and innovation, ownership and networks, coopetition and entrepreneurship, multinational and trust management, and firm's financial structures and business models, the book sets a research agenda for the future of competitive strategy research. Gathering various solid branches of investigation that revolve around specific theories and applications (such as the socio-cognitive perspective, the strategy-as-practice view, and the most recent developments in competitive dynamics and the resource-based perspective of the firm), this inspiring and thought-provoking Handbook will provide executives, entrepreneurs, students and scholars in management with many insights into the nature and process of competitive strategy emergence, configuration and development.

Book The SAGE Handbook of International Marketing

Download or read book The SAGE Handbook of International Marketing written by Masaaki Kotabe and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2009-01-30 with total page 570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an internationally minded and detailed analysis, the contributors seek to examine the state of the art in research in international marketing, with particular emphasis on the conceptual framework and theory development in the field. Looking at new research, formative and fundamental literature and the nature of strategic alliance and global strategy, this timely and comprehensive Handbook offers the reader a compelling examination of the central concerns of marketing for an international community.

Book Mergers and Acquisitions

Download or read book Mergers and Acquisitions written by David R. King and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-10-30 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The process of identifying and evaluating a target firm, completing a deal after its negotiation and announcement, and then integrating a target firm after legal combination is a multi-year process with uncertain returns to acquiring firms. Research on mergers and acquisitions (M&As) is progressing rapidly yet it remains fragmented across multiple research perspectives that largely examine different acquisition phases separately and coincide with a focus on different research variables. As a result, research fragmentation means that a researcher in one area may be unaware of research from related areas that is likely relevant. This contributes to research silos with M&A research displaying different traditions, starting points, and assumptions. Mergers and Acquisitions: A Research Overview summarizes the frontier in M&A research and provides insights into where it can be expanded. It undertakes the needed integration and reconciliation of research in order to derive practical knowledge for managing acquisitions from beginning to end, providing a summary of what is known and its implications for future research. This concise overview reconciles and integrates the state of the art in our understanding of mergers and acquisitions, providing an essential first stopping point in the research journey of students and scholars working in this area.

Book Proceedings of the International Conference Theory and Applications in the Knowledge Economy

Download or read book Proceedings of the International Conference Theory and Applications in the Knowledge Economy written by Eduardo Tomé and published by Eduardo Tomé. This book was released on 2016-07-08 with total page 923 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Foreword TAKE 2016 is a dream that came true. In about six months, a group of friends and colleagues put together in an upcoming and very dynamic university a conference with 9 streams, 3 keynotes, and 3 special sessions. 60 papers presented, 6 posters and around 80 participants from 20 countries. This is awesome! I would like to deeply thank Aveiro University, the GOVCOPP research centre, the conference committee, the keynote speakers, the special session convenors, the stream leaders, the reviewers, the authors, and the administrative people for all their work and support. I want to have two special words one for Blazenka Knezevic without whom the website would not have been possible, the other for Gaby Neumann for work in these Proceedings. Scientifically, TAKE seems to be as important and new and far reaching. We don’t have shortage of models regarding the knowledge economy but we decisively lack to explore the relation between theory and practice. TAKE is a step in exploring that difference. We know that “Exact sciences find the best answers and social sciences give the best questions” (J.C. Spender) and we also know that “Knowledge Management is more preached by scholars than done by practitioners” (Aino Kianto). We assume the first idea and try to overcome the second. Hopefully TAKE 2016 will be a great success. Thank you for everything.

Book Learning and Innovation   a Distance

Download or read book Learning and Innovation a Distance written by Juliane Hartig and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-08-05 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Juliane Hartig develops a framework of different forms of distance and discusses their impact and interplay for interactive learning and innovation. Her empirical study draws on a sample of international cooperation projects from German biotechnology SMEs. Combining quantitative and qualitative research, she comes to new insights, and offers practitioners tools on how to create proximity in order to derive the most from global cooperation.

Book Relational Methodologies and Epistemology in Economics and Management Sciences

Download or read book Relational Methodologies and Epistemology in Economics and Management Sciences written by Biggiero, Lucio and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2016-01-18 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The social sciences, especially economics, management, and organizational science, are experiencing a tremendous renewed interest for their epistemological and methodological statutes, as witnessed by the many books and specialized journals established during the last two decades. Relational Methodologies and Epistemology in the Economics and Management Sciences identifies and presents the four main network-based methodologies including network analysis, Boolean network simulation modeling, artificial neural network simulation modeling, and agent-based simulation modeling in addition to their conceptual-epistemological implications and concrete applications within the social and natural sciences. Featuring a critical assessment of relational methodologies and their practical applications, this timely publication is ideal for use by corporate R&D departments, researchers, theorists, and graduate-level students.

Book Managing Knowledge for Global and Collaborative Innovations

Download or read book Managing Knowledge for Global and Collaborative Innovations written by Samuel Kai Wah Chu and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2010 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Networked and interconnected world, improving communication, collaboration and knowledge sharing between people and organization is very important. This book provides an insight into knowledge management practices and their applications to a wide range of complex issues.

Book Technological Know how  Organizational Capabilities  And Strategic Management  Business Strategy And Enterprise Development In Competitive Environments

Download or read book Technological Know how Organizational Capabilities And Strategic Management Business Strategy And Enterprise Development In Competitive Environments written by David J Teece and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2008-09-10 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores factors which impact the viability and growth of business enterprises. In particular, the role of entrepreneurship, organizational learning, and business strategy — including licensing strategy — are considered in some detail. It presents fundamental thinking about business organization and provides the conceptual framework that scholars need to understand complex business organization, managerial processes, and competitive strategy.

Book The Speed of Human and Task Integration in Mergers and Acquisitions

Download or read book The Speed of Human and Task Integration in Mergers and Acquisitions written by Carolin Proft and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-12-02 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In practice, managers of mergers and acquisitions (M&A) draw their attention more and more to speed of integration within their M&A strategies. In a paradoxical manner, M&A research on speed of integration is still in its infancy and remains underdeveloped. Empirical findings reach from positive over negative to non-significant relationships between speed and M&A success. Carolin Proft develops a research model which encompasses task integration speed and human integration speed as independent variables influencing the dependent variable of M&A performance. She clarifies the question of how the success factor speed can be used as a tool to enhance M&A success. Based on the data collected from 101 German speaking companies she proves that task integration speed negatively influences M&A performance while human integration speed promotes M&A success. The present study is unique as it quantitatively demonstrates that the two types of integration occur at different levels of speed. Therefore, the M&A success significantly depends on the chronology of the two types of integration.

Book Mergers and Acquisitions

Download or read book Mergers and Acquisitions written by Olimpia Meglio and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-03-07 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides scholars and practitioners in mergers and acquisitions (M&As) with a solid foundation for further research. M&As continue to shape the economic landscape across the globe. While there is already a huge body of scholarly work on the subject, findings appear contradictory and academics and practitioners often struggle to understand what factors make M&As successful. Due to the lack of an agreed-upon definition, research findings appear contradictory, while in fact they are often simply not comparable. To address this, the book rethinks how we measure key umbrella constructs. It specifically focuses on the conceptualization phase of the measurement process, often taken for granted in the current research.

Book Methods  Models  Simulations and Approaches Towards a General Theory of Change

Download or read book Methods Models Simulations and Approaches Towards a General Theory of Change written by Gianfranco Minati and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2012 with total page 725 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Other approaches are based on considering (1) periodic changes in structure as for processes of self-organisation; (2) non-periodic but coherent changes in structure, as for processes of emergence; (3) the quantum level of description. Papers in the book study the problem considering its transdisciplinary nature, i.e., systemic properties studied per se and not within specific disciplinary contexts. The aim of these studies is to outline a transdisciplinary theory of change in systemic properties. Such a theory should have simultaneous, corresponding and eventually hierarchical disciplinary aspects as expected for a general theory of emergence.