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Markets, Competition, Cooperation and Innovation.

Kitson, M; Michie, J; Quinn, M - ESRC Centre for Business Research - 2001

The paper analyses the relationship between, on the one hand, markets, competition and cooperation, and on the other hand, firms' innovative behaviour. Drawing on ESRC Centre for Business Research survey results, the paper uses descriptive statistics and a qualitative response model to examine...

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Management characteristics, collaboration and innovative efficiency: evidence from UK survey data

Cosh, Andy; Fu, Xiaolan; Hughes, Alan - ESRC Centre for Business Research - 2005

innovative efficiency in high-tech SMEs is significantly enhanced by collaboration, formal management structure and training; and …This paper explores the impact of management characteristics and patterns of collaboration on a firmÕs innovation … recent firm level survey database for 465 innovative British small and medium enterprises (SMEs) over the years 1998 …

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Why emotional capital matters in education and in labour? toward an Optimal exploitation of human capital and knowledge management.

Gendron, Bénédicte - Maison des Sciences Économiques, Université Paris 1 … - 2004

From the perspective of the Chicago school, there is no behaviour that is not interpretable as economic. In this paper, we discuss the assertion in the perspective of an optimal constitution and exploitation of Human Capital, through our conceptual framework named Emotional Capital (EC)....

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Humanitarian aid, internal displacement and social impacts in Sudan

Mohamed, Issam A.W.; Osman, Kamal M. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

Aulia Internally Displaced People, specially their efforts in education were investigated. It is concluded that introduce … governmental efforts in improving facilities are minimized. With the increasing loads of children vying to join education, lack of … children leave education and search for working opportunities to support their families. It is basically required from the …

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Le developpement des competences en gestion: l'experience Desjardins-HEC.

Boiteux, S.; Cote, D. - HEC Montréal (École des Hautes Études Commerciales) - 1999

En mettant en question la pertinence d'une charte de competences relative au metier des individus a qui un programme de formation s'adresse, comme point de depart de sa structuration et de l'elaboration de son contenu, nous illustrons, par un rapprochement entre le Mouvement Desjardins et...

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VIRTUAL TEAMS – AN OPPORTUNITY IN THE CONTEXT OF GLOBALIZATION

MOCANU, Mihaela Daniela - In: Business Excellence and Management 4 (2014) 1, pp. 47-53

Communication has always represented an important point in the success of any project, regardless of its nature. Therefore, most experts today, turn their attention to find more efficient ways of communication between people. In this context and in the globalization context, virtual teams...

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Relationship building in virtual teams: A leadership behavioral complexity perspective

Jawadi, Nabila; Daassi, Mohamed; Favier, Marc; Kalika, … - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2013

E-leadership has emerged in virtual team literature as an important determinant of relationship building. However, the way e-leaders develop high quality relationship between virtual team members is little understood. The purpose of this paper is to identify the key roles that enable virtual...

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Cultural diversity of distributed teams

Chauvet, Mathieu - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2009

The debate on distance teams, mostly virtual teams, has been especially prominent in the academic literature for the last few years. Among the different concepts that have been studied by researchers, little attention has been paid explicitly to national culture. Although sometimes presented as...

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In Search of the Silver Bullet for Productivity Growth: A Review Article of The Power of Productivity and Transforming the European Economy

Ark, Bart van - In: International Productivity Monitor 10 (2005) Spring, pp. 79-86

attention give by both volumes to innovation and education -- two areas that are generally felt to be very important in terms of …

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U.S. High Technology Clusters

Acs, Zoltan J - Centre for Research into Industry, Enterprise, Finance … - 1993

It is well known that both "Silicon Valley" and "Route 128 Boston" owe much of their success ot the proximity of Stanford University and MIT. Knowledge spillovers from large research universities contribute to increasing returns, resulting in divergent development between clusters. This...

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