Download or read book Social Network of Firms Innovation and Industrial Performance written by Johannes Van der Pol and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thesis aims to answer three main questions ; how can one explain andinterpret the structure of an innovation network, are there positions in a network which allowfor an increased performance for firms and finally, are there network structures which favourinnovation ? In order to answer these questions, the thesis is organised in three parts.The first part presents, in a first chapter, an analytical review of the literature followed by achapter presenting the theory behind one of the network analysis methods: ExponentialRandom Graph Models (ERGM).The second part of the thesis presents three empirical analyses. The first empirical chapteranalyses the impact of the life-cycle of the technology on the structural dynamics of thecollaboration network for Structural Composite Materials. The following two chapters focuson two sectors, the aerospace and biotech sector. The aim of these chapters is to analyse thestructural dynamics of collaboration networks as well as identifying a link between networkposition and firm performance.The third and final part of this thesis searches for network structures which might favourinnovation. An Agent-Based Model is used to answer this final question.

Download or read book Mining and Analyzing Social Networks written by I-Hsien Ting and published by Springer. This book was released on 2010-05-16 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mining social networks has now becoming a very popular research area not only for data mining and web mining but also social network analysis. Data mining is a technique that has the ability to process and analyze large amount of data and by this to discover valuable information from the data. In recent year, due to the growth of social communications and social networking websites, data mining becomes a very important and powerful technique to process and analyze such large amount of data. Thus, this book will focus upon Mining and Analyzing social network. Some chapters in this book are extended from the papers that presented in MSNDS2009 (the First International Workshop on Mining Social Networks for Decision Support) and SNMABA2009 ((The International Workshop on Social Networks Mining and Analysis for Business Applications)). In addition, we also sent invitations to researchers that are famous in this research area to contribute for this book. The chapters of this book are introduced as follows: In chapter 1-Graph Model for Pattern Recognition in Text, Qin Wu et al. present a novel approach that uses a weighted directed multigraph for text pattern recognition. In the proposed methodology, a weighted directed multigraph model has been set up by using the distances between the keywords as the weights of arcs as well a keyword-frequency distance based algorithm has also been introduced. Case studies are also included in this chapter to show the performance is better than traditional means.

Download or read book The Impact of Social Networks on Innovation Competitiveness and Firm Performance in the South African Context written by Mphulane Ramorena and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Small businesses play a very important role in every economy hence their prosperity is a concern to all. In south Africa, recent researches have indicated low levels of performance and high attrition rate among small businesses. It is generally accepted that small business’s survival is threatened by their larger business counterparts that are able to utilise their vast resources to their advantage. Fortunately, research evidence suggests that the ability of small businesses to compete with their bigger counterparts lies in their ability to engage in innovative activities. However, the sustainability of such innovative activities, depends on knowing which factors drive innovation the most in small businesses. In the present study it is theorized that when emerging construction firms engage in social networks (internally and externally) and innovate, they will be more competitive and experience better firm performance. This problem is explicated in the conceptual framework from the perspective of social capital theories, especially social networks. In general terms, this study contends that, small firms can rely on their social networks (both internal and external) to innovate in order to enhance their competitiveness and performance. Specifically, from social capital theory, it is argued that the resources embedded in social networks can be utilised by Emerging Construction Firms (ECFs) to be innovative and competitive for better firm performance. A literature review preceded the empirical study to fully comprehend the theoretical and conceptual underpinnings of the interaction between social networks, innovation, competitiveness and firm performance. Thereafter, 16 hypotheses were formulated based on the conceptual framework. Data were then collected from 800 ECFs graded at category 1 to 7 by the Construction Industry Development Board (CIDB) in the Free State province of South Africa. A key finding from mainstream literature is that due to resource limitations, smaller firms like ECFs will always find it difficult to compete with their big business counterparts on innovation and performance when they rely on money and tangible assets only. Literature also overwhelmingly indicates that innovation is enhanced by collaborative ability. Further, the literature reviews also strongly indicated a positive relationship between innovation and firm performance. The major empirical findings of this study are: · Strong positive relationship exists between networking, innovation and ECFs’ performance. · Both product and process innovation positively impacted ECFs’ performance. Implications of these and other findings are presented and discussed in this research thesis alongside recommendations for research, policy and practice.

Download or read book Agglomeration and Firm Performance written by Fiorenza Belussi and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-08-10 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This contributed volume studies and explains the effect of agglomeration on a firm’s innovation and performance. It presents new cases as well as new topics within the agglomeration phenomenon, exploring also their role under the Great Recession. Beyond the analysis of regions or clusters, this volume focuses on firms within agglomerations and captures this phenomenon from different perspectives, contexts and diverse literatures. Specifically, it looks at the question under what circumstances exert generate benefits on firms’ performance, and how those gains are generated and distributed, usually asymmetrically, across agglomerated firms. In this context, the book addresses topics such as networks, collocation, labor mobility, firm’s strategies, innovation, competitiveness and collective actions across a diverse set of literatures, including economic geography, business economics, management, social networks, industrial districts, international business, sociology or industry dynamics.

Download or read book Proceedings of the 9th European Conference on Innovation and Entrepreneurship written by Brendan Galbraith and published by Academic Conferences Limited. This book was released on 2014 with total page 671 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Asian pharmaceutical and medical device industry innovation perspectives up to 2050 written by Fu-Sheng Tsai and published by Frontiers Media SA. This book was released on 2023-10-31 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Challenge Social Innovation written by Hans-Werner Franz and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-13 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years, social innovation has experienced a steep career. Numerous national governments and large organisations like the OECD, the European Commission and UNESCO have adopted the term. Social innovation basically means that people adopt new social practices in order to meet social needs in a different or more effective way. Prominent examples of the past are the Red Cross and the social welfare state or, at present, the internet 2.0 transforming our communication and cooperation schemes, requiring new management concepts, even empowering social revolutions. The traditional concept of innovation as successful new technological products needs fundamental rethinking in a society marked by knowledge and services, leading to a new and enriched paradigm of innovation. There is multiple evidence that social innovation will become of growing importance not only concerning social integration, equal opportunities and dealing with the greenhouse effects but also with regard to preserving and expanding the innovative capacity of companies and societies. While political authorities stress the social facets of social innovation, this book also encompasses its societal and systemic dimensions, collecting the scientific expertise of renowned experts and scholars from all over the world. Based on the contributions of the first world-wide science convention on social innovation from September 2011 in Vienna, the book provides an overview of scientific approaches to this still relatively new field. Forewords by Agnès HUBERT (Member of the Bureau of European Policy Advisers (BEPA) of the European Commission) and Antonella Noya (Senior Policy Analyst at OECD, manager of the OECD LEED Forum on Social Innovations)

Download or read book The Locus of Innovation in Small and Medium Sized Firms written by Willem Hulsink and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 51 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Social networks matter in the innovation processes of young and small firms, since lsquo;innovation does not exist in a vacuum (Van De Ven, 1986: 601).' The contacts a firm has could both generate advantages for further innovation and growth, and disadvantages leading to inertia and stagnation. In the first case the existing social network or the new business contact provides opportunities furthering eventual success, in the second case, the existing network or the new business contacts turns out to have a constraining or even detrimental effect on performance. The search and use of social capital is driven by goal-specificity: it only includes those ties that help the actor in the attainment of particular goals. Most of the research so far has been deliberately or unwillingly one-sided, by for instance only looking at entrepreneurial firms in dynamic industries (or more specifically, start-ups in the high-tech industries). Or selective attention has been paid to either the internal sources or the external contacts to trigger innovation. And when a conclusive study has been conducted into investigating both the effect of internal and external ties on innovation, the sample often includes large and established companies and managers (instead of entrepreneurs and smaller firms, as what we are interested in). The main line of reasoning in this paper is as follows. In the first section we discuss the key network concepts, such as, social capital, relational embeddedness (strong and weak ties), structural embeddedness (i.e. structural holes). Section two deals with innovation and the central role of knowledge in the discovery and realisation of innovations. Social networks and its potential for knowledge brokering appear to be important and therefore the last section focuses on the relationship between particular network characteristics and innovation.

Download or read book Corporate Social Capital and Liability written by Roger Th.A.J. Leenders and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 1999-07-31 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What enables some organizations to routinely perform better than others? Conversely, what makes some firms consistently perform worse than their competitors? Within a single corporation, what enables some teams or individual firm members to outperform their counterparts? Through the concept of social capital, this book addresses these questions by studying the effects of relationship networks on the ability of corporate players (firms and their members) to attain their professional goals. The idea of social capital has become one of the premier approaches to studying networks in the context of organizations but the literature still lacks a conceptual paradigm that connects the various approaches, definitions and measure of social capital into an integrated analytical model. By explicitly connecting social networks to the goals of corporate players, this book provides a unifying framework to the study of social capital in an organizational context. In this volume `social capital' is defined as the resources that accrue to an actor through his or her social relationships and that aid in the attainment of goals. The book introduces the new notion of `social liability' as a framework to analyze the negative effects social networks can have on the attainment of goals by firms and/or their members. Corporate Social Capital and Liability thus presents a new way to tie together findings and approaches in the literature by explicitly addressing the distinction between networks and outcomes, the distinction between networks at the level of firms and networks at the level of individuals, and the distinction between positive outcomes of social structure (social capital) and negative outcomes (social liability). The book's contributors are forty-six acclaimed scholars from around the world with backgrounds in management, business and sociology. Together, they describe how social relationships within and between firms positively affect the ability of corporations to achieve fruitful alliances; gain access to information, resources, knowledge and financial capital; and recruit qualified personnel. The book makes an explicit distinction between networks at the level of firms and networks at the level of individuals. The outcomes of networks are also considered at these different analytical levels by addressing such questions as: how do social relationships between firms assist firms and individuals in the attainment of their goals? How do these relationships obstruct goals? What is the effect of networks between individuals (within and between firms) on the performance of these individuals and the firms they work for? Can networks be managed to yield social capital rather than social liability? The unifying framework of social capital and social liability is helpful in studying business enterprises, and also useful in other disciplines which analyze social networks and organizations, such as community studies, economics, and political science.

Download or read book Driving Results Through Social Networks written by Robert L. Cross and published by Jossey-Bass. This book was released on 2008-12-16 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Driving Results Through Social Networks shows executives and managers how to obtain substantial performance and innovation impact by better leveraging these traditionally invisible assets. For the past decade, Rob Cross and Robert J. Thomas have worked closely with executives from over a hundred top-level companies and government agencies. In this groundbreaking book, they describe in-depth how these leaders are using network thinking to increase revenues, lower costs, and accelerate innovation.

Download or read book Fuzzy mathematical model and optimization in digital green innovation for industry 5 0 written by Shi Yin and published by Frontiers Media SA. This book was released on 2023-09-06 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Essentials of Knowledge Management written by John S. Edwards and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-29 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book reviews the field of Knowledge Management, taking a holistic approach that includes both "soft" and "hard" aspects. It provides a broad perspective on the field, rather than one based on a single viewpoints from Computer Science or Organizational Learning, offering a comprehensive and integrated conception of Knowledge Management. The chapters represent the best Knowledge Management articles published in the 21st century in Knowledge Management Research & Practice and the European Journal of Information Systems, with contributors including Ikujiro Nonaka, Frada Burstein, and David Schwartz. Most of the chapters contribute significantly to practise as well as theory. The OR Essentials series presents a unique cross-section of high quality research work fundamental to understanding contemporary issues and research across a range of Operational Research topics. It brings together some of the best research papers from the highly respected journals of the Operational Research Society, also published by Palgrave Macmillan.

Download or read book Routledge Handbook of Chinese Business and Management written by Jane Nolan and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-09-29 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handbook, representing the collaboration of 36 scholars, provides a multi-faceted exploration of Chinese business and management. The volume represents an ‘inside-out’ perspective, offering local knowledge and experience, in conjunction with an ‘outside-in’ approach, presenting measured and sensitive observations from an outsider’s perspective. The handbook’s approach is organised around five key themes: Cultural and institutional contexts for business in China Management, including digital marketing and entrepreneurship Work and employment, covering gender and trade unions in the workplace Human resource management and human resource development in Chinese businesses, including multinational corporations in the UK Business and economic overviews, revealing the impact of guanxi relations and networks on Chinese business and management Revealing major recent developments in Chinese business and management alongside an appreciation of the unique historical, institutional, and cultural context of Chinese business and management, this book is a must-read for scholars, students, and educators of Chinese business and theory, and business in Asia.

Download or read book Evolution of Innovation Management written by A. Brem and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-01-30 with total page 644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Uses new approaches and solutions to tackle innovations in an international context. Some of the challenges of innovating are remarkably consistent and recent times have shown the emergence of new ways for stimulating and managing the innovation process. The authors explore these new routes and assess their value for markets and companies.

Download or read book ECIE 2023 18th European Conference on Innovation and Entrepreneurship Vol 1 written by Fernando Moreira and published by Academic Conferences and publishing limited. This book was released on 2023-09-21 with total page 699 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Innovation Networks written by Andreas Pyka and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2010-05-17 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The science of graphs and networks is now an established tool for modeling and analyzing systems with a large number of interacting components. The contributions to this anthology address different aspects of the relationship between innovation and networks.

Download or read book Product Innovation through Knowledge Management and Social Media Strategies written by Goel, Alok Kumar and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2015-11-24 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ###############################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################