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This paper studies the mediating role of incubator capability for the relationship between incubator resources and incubator performance. To justify it, a survey is conducted with managers from 150 incubators in China. Three types of incubator resources influence the performance respectively through the same variable “incubator capability” but with different mediating effects.
In this paper we illustrate the concept of business ecosystem by comparing it with other related concepts from the views of bionics and competitive network, involving theories of social Darwinism, general system theory, organizational ecology, value chain/network, industrial cluster and strategic alliance. This is aiming to better understand a business ecosystem and its applied advantage. The key...
Two industrial challenges of uncertainty and interoperability arose as the new forms of industries structure have emerged. Network theories are systematically reviewed in three streams of network structure, network strategy and network evolution in order to find out the current theories' contribution on those two challenging issues, which include supply chain management (SCM), business network (BN),...
ERP (enterprise resources planning) is widely used to improve business performance. This paper explores how the factors associated with the Front-end ERP Implementation Process (FEIP) affect the implementation outcome. First, based on literature review, a preliminary framework with 12 hypotheses is developed. Then Grounded Theory is applied for a case study to further extract and verify the factors...
The flexibility trade-off is one of the most enduring operations management puzzles. This paper applies a theoretical framework of paradox to a trade-off puzzle. A case study method is adopted, and the employment of Causal Loop Diagramming method for qualitative modeling of the paradox and trade-off under investigation and a greater appreciation of the dynamics and subtle ties of the systems and the...
A lot of enterprises are using technology strategy in the planning of enterprises?? future technology development, but in the technology strategic planning process, enterprises often meet with the practical problem that implementation activities renegades from the previous strategy and the decisions from the strategy can not be reflected effectively in the daily technology development projects. Based...
New Product Development (NPD) is among the most important processes for modern firms to succeed in fast-paced and competitive markets. This paper reviews and integrates extant literature in the domains of NPD and Organization Behavior (OB) to develop a framework for future inter-functional coordination research. The framework, including some propositions, extends the traditional design/manufacturing...
The effectiveness of services provided by a business incubator is the basis and premise for promoting the incubator itself and for incubating and developing new ventures inside. Services in different forms, contents and levels may influence the performance of incubated firms such as surviving rate and growth rate. We first classify incubator services into several types including infrastructure, educating,...
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