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University ties are an important innovation resource for both foreign direct investment (FDI) firms and local firms. Since these university connections involve local personal ties, which are established through long-term efforts that require social and cultural embeddedness, it is probably more difficult for FDI firms to establish such ties than it is for local firms. However, FDI firms, which have...
This study examined how transformational leadership styles affect innovative culture, and consequently affect the implementation of knowledge-based customer relationship management in the Taiwanese hotel industry. A model of these relationships was created based on earlier research and used Bass and Avolio's Multi-Factor Leadership Questionnaire, a 12-item scale for assessing innovative culture along...
Patent citation is one of indicators surveying innovation. By analogizing patent citations of two top enterprises Cisco and Huawei in communications equipments industry, innovation and technology diffusion in both the Chinese and foreign enterprises is explored. Results argue, through long-term innovation some Chinese high-tech. firms efficiency in R & D has caught up with top multinationals;...
In terms of role orientation, relationship strength, network density, network location and hierarchy,this paper designs the organization structure of the knowledge innovation network involved in Industry-Academia-Research (IAR). The structure design is as following: orientation of seeking common development in forging uniqueness, network pattern of co-exists within the relationship between the strong...
SMEs are confronting with huge challenge in the economic environment of global financial crisis. It is urgent to improve enterprise's innovation ability through converting traditional innovation mode to modern innovation of integrated technology mode. In this paper, we point out some problems in the development of SMEs' in the back ground of development situation of SMEs in Henan province. In the...
This paper introduces the integration management theory into the field of industry reputation management. The main idea of this paper is to integrate the reputation management activities of the companies that are in the same industry to form an industry reputation integration organization. The integration organization utilizes pan-border network organizational structure, industry reputation strategy...
Innovation in processes products, and services is a key to success in knowledge based economy where quality measures alone are not sufficient to bring competitive advantage to small companies in developing countries. While product and process quality measures are often stressed upon, readiness for innovation and knowledge management initiatives in small enterprises needs to be explored critically...
This paper analyzes the enterprises cluster in the two stages of R&D and market under a variety of strategies, comparing the R & D investment and profit under each strategy. Then proposing to build innovation and services platform systems and creating regional brand are the optimal choices to the enterprise cluster.
The private economy urgent need a management theory frame of the development of in different regions and system innovation when they are higher levels of system innovation. This article discusses the principle, technical route map of industrial technology and industrial roadmap for the related technical process based on the methodology of industrial technology, and emphasis should be used to map for...
The importance of knowledge protection (e.g. IP protection) has long been recognized for maintaining continuous revenue and promoting innovation in companies. However, it is also suggested that IP protection is not the only method for knowledge protection and its application to service industries is not yet mature. In this paper, we classify businesses according to their offering types (services or...
This paper examines the statistical correlation between standardization and innovation in companies and research institutions in Japan. Knowledge of the number of persons who engage in standardization-related activities (PSRA) and the number of patent applications is required in order to investigate the statistical correlation. However, it has been difficult to count the number of PSRA in actual organizations...
The traditional profit pattern can't adapt to the rapidly changing external environment of operation and development. The enterprises should take full consideration of its own profit pattern and innovates continuously, transmitting from product and customer-guided profit pattern to capital and value creation oriented. This paper collects and discusses the development and changes of enterprise profit...
In recent years, information technology (IT) and innovation were considered important for enhancing the performance and competitiveness. However, the relationship between IT, innovation and firm performance has not been thoroughly discussed in the past ten years. Besides, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) occupy the great proportion of the total number of enterprises in the world, and most...
Innovation is important to all organizations in all sectors. In a knowledge economy, the better use of knowledge can lead to faster, less risky and more vibrant innovation. A good Human Resource (HR) department in an organization ensures that all the employees are motivated to become knowledge workers and contribute towards organizational objectives. This calls for an effective and in-depth analysis...
Innovation is the source of enterprise's competitiveness. With the frequency of innovation getting more and more fast, the technology becoming more complex and technology development input getting harder, enterprise can no longer get competitiveness from the traditional single liner innovation. Only by integrated innovation which is self-reinforcing can enterprise become invincible. In this paper,...
Based on agency theory of the firm, and the special institutional setting that China corporate governance evolve from mandatory governance in ldquocompliancerdquo stage to voluntary governance in ldquoinnovationrdquo stage, this paper analyses how voluntary governance affect stock returns under the research paradigm of ldquogovernance mechanism-corporate behavior-economic consequences rdquo. Subsequently,...
This paper discusses how to reduce the barriers universities and industry face when working together on collaborative research projects. As a best practices study, the paper describes lessons that should not be viewed as isolated experiments, but as practices that can create the synergy required to drive collaborative research, innovation, and digital inclusion. This is particularly critical for developing...
Based on knowledge management theory, this research formed a structure equation model about the impact of organizational learning on innovation. Then, based on institutional theory, we compared the differences of these relationships in Chinese state-owned companies and non-state-owned companies. We found that the differences are significant in companies with different ownership identities.
Innovation is an actuating force of industrial clusters. Here social capital on the innovation activities were applied to analyze the electronic information industrial cluster in Suzhou city, China. Using a set of index and two-stage decision-making model, innovation activities of cluster was studied. The results show that structural, relational and cognitive dimensions of social capital have positive...
This study examines how adaptive cross-community cooperation can applied to eliminating defects under circumstances of causal ambiguity. Based on a troubleshooting case involving semiconductor engineers, the study looks at how members of different communities engage in adaptive boundary-spanning cooperation in work contexts characterized by innovation, flexibility, extemporaneous relationships, and...
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