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, the papers included in the book cover the areas of management education primarily dealing with issues of marketing, family …
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(SMEs) in particular, the concept of resilience has experienced a renaissance. As an organizational concept, business model …
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SMEs in Ghana. Purposive sampling technique was employed to sample 190 SMEs in Accra, though 150 SMEs responded to the … management practices on the performance and hence growth of SMEs in Ghana. The study revealed a significant positive relationship … between strategy formulation and growth of SMEs in Ghana. The study also found a significant positive relationship between …
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In this study, we examine the prevalence of different KM practices and the organizational determinants of KM among SMEs … by conducting a quantitative study of empirical data from nearly 500 Dutch SMEs. Our empirical results show that … knowledge is managed in a people-based approach in SMEs. SMEs are most likely to acquire knowledge by staying in touch with …
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The purpose of this article is to suggest a (preliminary) taxonomy and research agenda for the topic of “firms, crowds, and innovation” and to provide an introduction to the associated special issue. We specifically discuss how various crowd-related phenomena and practices — for example,...
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As a first step towards understanding the evolution of small groups in firms, this paper develops and tests a simple decision-theoretical model of research-unit evolution in which, as managers resolve their uncertainty over time, they shut down under-performing units and remove under-performing...
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We consider an important class of research and development (R&D) investments in public and private entities that require selection from a large number of proposals such that: (1) the potential monetary value of the proposals is not a first-order factor in the selection; and (2) the investments...
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well as collaboration with customers) are concrete preconditions of business model innovation. Therefore, managers in SMEs …Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are at the heart of a nation's wealth creation, employment generation and … economic development. To help SMEs stay competitive in a fast-changing environment, researchers have recently emphasized the …
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Managers of emerging platforms must decide what level of platform performance to invest in at each product development cycle in markets that exhibit two-sided network externalities. High performance is a selling point for consumers, but in many cases it requires developers to make large...
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The General Electric Company (GE) is widely regarded as one of the world's most successful corporations of the 20th century. This paper aims to critically analyse the corporate strategy of GE during the period from 1981 to present under the leadership of two very different but equally...
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