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Environmental constraints lead to important changes in the innovation strategies of manufacturing firms. In this paper, the development of Product-Service Systems (PSS) in 10 manufacturing firms that are part of the French CAC40 Index is studied. A special effort is made to investigate the reasons and the forms of PSS development, their impact on innovation management as well as the prerequisites...
The paper focuses on automobile manufacturing enterprises and studies the effects of logistics management patterns used in the enterprises. The paper, firstly, introduces four kinds of logistics management patterns which can be used in the logistics management process of manufacturing firms. After that, the paper also analyzes the demands of logistics services and the main factors which affects and...
The research suggests a conceptual model about the impacts of relational embeddedness on the technological firm innovation performance through exploratory learning, and examines the influencing mechanism among relational embeddedness, exploratory learning and technological innovation performance by carrying out studies on 178 manufacturing firms. The hypotheses in the research are partially supported...
This study combines shared vision theory and innovational mechanism perspectives to develop a general model of product innovation. We analyze this model using a structural equation model approach, with 218 manufacturing and service firms in China are selected as the samples of this study. Our results indicate that internal shared vision positively affects innovational mechanism, and innovational mechanism...
The objective of this paper is to report on the method, analysis, and conclusions concerning two research questions formulated as: Whatarethedeterminantsofinnovationatfirmlevel?rdquoandldquowhatistheimpactofinnovationonfirmperformance?rdquo The results are based on an empirical study covering 184 manufacturing firms in the Northern Marmara region within Turkey. A comprehensive and...
In this paper we report the findings of a two-year project that examined how technology and engineering consultancies (TECs) manage knowledge and innovation to create and capture value. We studied eight multi-national consultancies at two levels. First, we examined the policies, processes and practices used at the corporate level to promote innovation, and capture the value created by it. Secondly,...
This paper handles two questions: Do external technology sources have determined technology capability accumulation in Chinese firms? If so, which sources are more important, foreign technologies or Chinese institutions and customers? To deal with these questions, according to our research on some Chinese firms, we select some types of technological change and the stage of firms' technology capabilities...
This study presents an empirical study to examine the performance and the determinants of technology outsourcing service in manufacturing firms in the Northeastern China. Using data collected in 94 large or medium-sized firms, we find that there existed a deep gap between the providers and the users of technology outsourcing services. The analysis also says that three factors which influence the outsourcing...
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