Journal of Management http://jom.sagepub.com/ New Venture Teams: A Review of the Literature and Roadmap for Future Research Anthony C. Klotz, Keith M. Hmieleski, Bret H. Bradley and Lowell W. Busenitz Journal of Management published online 26 June 2013 DOI: 10.1177/0149206313493325 The online version of this article can be found at: http://jom.sagepub.com/content/early/2013/06/26/0149206313493325 Published by: http://www.sagepublications.com On behalf of: Southern Management Association
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HBR CASE STUDY Offered a lucrative deal to outfit consumer goods with RFID tags,a technology executive wonders: Would he be providing a valuable custonner service? Or committing a heinous invasion of privacy? None of Our Business? by Roberta A. Fusaro E S W THEM the moment he came A out of the parking garage. Across the street, about two dozen protesters crowded close to the main entrance of the exposition center, heckling conference goers as they streamed inside. Fired up
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BURTON SNOWBOARDS - COMPANY PROFILE Burton Snowboards, the world’s first snowboard factory, is a rider-driven company solely dedicated to creating the best snowboarding equipment on the planet. Burton’s passion is snowboarding, evident by their commitment to involve riders in every step of the product development process. Headquartered in Burlington, Vermont with international offices in Innsbruck, Austria and Tokyo, Japan, Burton has lead the snowboard industry for 26 years. By supporting a
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technology and ever-changing systems, organizations are developing new ways of controlling this problem. What is information overload? This is what some say in respect to information and what is happening to organizations in today’s fast paced hi- tech world; we are being overloaded with technological advances and information to the point where we will not be able to handle all this information and eventually burst. In actuality it is very improbable such an event will occur, with the advances that
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Project Course Exercise If businesses/organizations are to succeed, it is imperative that there be definitive and attainable objectives and results. The organization will define objectives by looking at the marketplace in which the organization is competing, the core competencies of the organization, recognizing how these can be applied to the goal of success, and then applying the organization's skills and competencies to accomplish the successes. This also means that the organization needs to
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unsolved problems, creation of opportunities via ingenuity and creativity, inefficient processes or unmet needs. In Rodgers’ Chocolates case, opportunity exists in form of unmet needs. As indicated, even though premium chocolates are more like the imported roses in the sense that they are not considered as life’s necessities, more people still want them. Such is the case of Canada,( the major Rogers market share) where more people appreciate chocolates hence increasing the premium chocolate market share
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by firstly analysing the fintech ecosystem for external factors that will shape the positioning of the business model (Forbes, 2016). Singapore has cultivated a conducive market that provides fintech start-ups with high availability of financial and developmental support. The high penetration rate of technology encourages the scalability of FinTech startups (Annex B, Forbes, 2013). Also, Singapore’s Startupbootcamp FinTech is an ideal key partner that can aid in the venture development process
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the Chinese government may point to the Expo as another example of the admiration of the world turning toward China. It was reported that in the last 160 years, there has never an Expo similar to that, which took place in the 2010 Shanghai Expo. A case in point is that more than 700,000 people poured into a site the size of Baltimore in Shanghai in 184 days. They found that an unprecedented number of pavilions, built by the state and enterprises exhibitors, which deployed cutting edge architecture
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Can the Market Add and Subtract? Mispricing in Tech Stock Carve-outs Owen A. Lamont and Richard H. Thaler University of Chicago and National Bureau of Economic Research Recent equity carve-outs in U.S. technology stocks appear to violate a basic premise of financial theory: identical assets have identical prices. In our 1998–2000 sample, holders of a share of company A are expected to receive x shares of company B, but the price of A is less than x times the price of B. A prominent example
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IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON SYSTEMS, MAN, AND CYBERNETICS—PART A: SYSTEMS AND HUMANS, VOL. 30, NO. 4, JULY 2000 421 What Makes Consumers Buy from Internet? A Longitudinal Study of Online Shopping Moez Limayem, Mohamed Khalifa, and Anissa Frini Abstract—The objective of this study is to investigate the factors affecting online shopping. A model explaining the impact of different factors on online shopping intentions and behavior is developed based on the Theory of Planned Behavior. The model is then
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