Customer Clusters as Sources of Innovation-Based Competitive Advantage Vishal Bindroo, Babu John Mariadoss, and Rajani Ganesh Pillai ABSTRACT The authors examine the effect of customer clusters on a firm’s innovation. They argue that knowledge leveraged from customer clusters can help the firm develop innovations. The authors specifically concentrate on the effect of a firm’s geographical proximity and diversity of customer clusters on innovation outcomes. In addition to showing the importance
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research today is some aspect of the setting (e.g., small businesses or new firms), rather than a unique conceptual domain. As a result, many people have had trouble identifying the distinctive contribution of the field to the broader domain of business studies, undermining the field's legitimacy. Researchers in other fields ask why entrepreneurship research is necessary if it does not explain or predict empirical phenomena beyond what is known from work in other fields. Moreover, the lack of a conceptual
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best-practice peer group. The findings of this study should help management in identifying the strengths and weaknesses of their bank branches. (ProQuest-CSA LLC: ... denotes formula omitted.) This study introduces and applies a framework for evaluating the operational performance of a bank branch network to assist bank managers in appraising bank branches. This framework is a linear-programming-based method called Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) (Charnes, Cooper, Huang, Sx Sun, 1990). DEA is a nonparametric
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trade-offs between for example efficiency and flexibility. Scope change will be demonstrated to be a natural part of projects, and that managers who embrace it can benefit from the opportunities that arise. Using one live manufacturing project as a case example, the paper will conclude that both hard and soft paradigm stances in terms of project management can be accommodated under the activity theory banner of contradiction, giving rise to the potential transferability of this classification across
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INTRODUCTION: Service quality is an approach to manage business processes in order to ensure full satisfaction of the customers which will help to increase competitiveness and effectiveness of the industry. Quality in service is very important especially for the growth and development of service sector business enterprises (Powell, 1995). It works as an antecedent of customer satisfaction (Ruyter and Bloemer, 1995). With the increase of the importance of service sector in the economy of Bangladesh
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Background The case revolves around a sales representative for a top furniture manufacturer, named John Smith. John has had a chance to interact with Nan Peterson, the leader of a product team at a furniture decorating company called Home Help. Home help is concerned by the fact that furniture industry as a whole seems to be lagging behind in terms of logistics operations. Nan believes that John’s company, Woodmere, could collaborate with Home Help to create a logistical capability that is
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accounting fraud and auditor legal liability c a S eS inc lu de d in t hiS Se ction 4 89 99 4.1 Enron Corporation and Andersen, LLP Analyzing the Fall of Two Giants . . . . . . . . . . . 4.2 Comptronix Corporation 4.3 Cendant Corporation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Identifying Inherent Risk and Control Risk Factors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111 119 127 137 Assessing the Control Environment and Evaluating Risk of Financial Statement
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Business Review Vol - 4, Issue- 1, January 2016 ISI Impact Factor : 1.259 (Dubai, UAE) Inno Space (SJIF) Impact Factor : 4.618(Morocco) JOB STRESS OF EXECUTIVE LEVEL EMPLOYEES: CASE OF APPAREL SECTOR IN SRI LANKA 1 Department of Human Resource Management, Faculty of Commerce and Management Studies, University of Kelaniya, Kelaniya, Sri Lanka Jayarathna, S. M. D. Y1 2 O MAS Intimates, Sri Lanka Rathnayake, L. R2 ABSTRACT ver the years,there has been a significant
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Entrepreneurship Entrepreneurship Entrepreneurship assignment 1500 word: Interview with Pearse Kelly, Spar owner In the following assignment I will describe in a case study form the interview in which I undertook with Pearse Kelly that is the owner of the local Spar in my area Maghera. I will outline his role as an entrepreneur and explain how he started off and got to his success. Entrepreneurship and school of thought – Entrepreneurial Trait Approach We can define an “entrepreneur” as someone
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The Promise of Entrepreneurship as a Field of Research Author(s): Scott Shane and S. Venkataraman Source: The Academy of Management Review, Vol. 25, No. 1 (Jan., 2000), pp. 217-226 Published by: Academy of Management Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/259271 . Accessed: 15/07/2014 10:10 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use, available at . http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp . JSTOR is a not-for-profit service
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