Focused Issue on Understanding Growth
Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Diversification
1st Edition
Published on 2. December 2005
300 pages
978-0-08-046066-6 (ISBN)
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This third volume of "e;Research in Competence-Based Management"e; (RCBM) continues the launch of a long-awaited outlet for peer-reviewed research papers contributing to advancement of competence-based management theory. Each volume in "e;RCBM"e; will be focused on a key aspect of competence theory. The focus in this volume on "e;Understanding Growth: Entrepreneurship, Innovation, and Diversification"e; addresses key processes essential to successful organization competence building, leveraging, and maintenance. The first set of papers in this volume explores the importance of entrepreneurial motivation in changing markets, as well as strategies for internal versus external funding and organization of entrepreneurial ventures. A second set of papers addresses some key issues in innovation in small and large firms, as well as the competence building process during technological innovation. Papers on diversification and alliances investigate the role of competence leveraging as a driver of diversification, as well as decision-making in innovation that can lead to diversification, cultivating institutions for improving innovation performance, and improving alliance management capability.
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English
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London
United Kingdom
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Elsevier Science & Technology
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Professional and scholarly
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2,33 MB
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978-0-08-046066-6 (9780080460666)
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Ron Sanchez | Aime Heene
Focused Issue on Understanding Growth
Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Diversification
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12/2005
JAI Press Inc.
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Content
- Front cover
- A Focused Issue on Understanding Growth: Entrepreneurship, Innovation, and Diversification
- Copyright page
- Contents
- List of Contributors
- Editors' Introduction
- Introduction to Understanding Growth: Entrepreneurship, Innovation, and Diversification
- Part I. Entrepreneurship
- Part II. Innovation
- Part III. Diversification and Alliances
- Part I: Entrepreneurship
- Chapter 1. Entrepreneurial Drives and Dynamic Capabilities in Situations of Encompassing Change
- Introduction
- Contradicting Demands in Situations of Encompassing Change
- Dynamic Capability - Distinctive Features and Development
- Entrepreneurs and Firms Dynamic Capability
- Entrepreneurial Actions and Drives in Four High-Tech Firms
- Entrepreneurial Drives and the Development of Dynamic Capabilities
- References
- Chapter 2. Entrepreneurial Volition to Take Action and the United States Markets of the 1990s
- Entrepreneurial Volition to Take Action and the 1990s
- Entrepreneurial Action Taking
- The Case of the Start-UPS of the 1990s
- Discussion
- Conclusion
- References
- Chapter 3. Corporate Venture Capital: Leveraging Competences, Hedging Uncertainty, or Creating an Ecosystem?
- Introduction
- Strategic Objectives of CVC Programs
- Resource-Based, Real Options and Network-Based Perspectives on CVC Programs
- Research Methods
- Observations
- Discussion and Conclusions
- Notes
- References
- Part II: Innovation
- Chapter 4. Corporate Entrepreneurship from a Competence-Based Management Perspective
- Business Development, Innovation, and Corporate Entrepreneurship
- A Competence-Based Framework for Corporate Entrepreneurship
- Corporate Entrepreneurship and Corporate Venturing
- Failures in Corporate Venturing
- Organizational Structures and Incentive Mechanisms of Corporate Venturing
- Success Factors for Corporate Venturing
- Potential Frictions Between the Corporate Core and Corporate Ventures
- Options for Organizational Integration of Corporate Ventures
- Conclusion
- Notes
- References
- Chapter 5. Innovation Strategies in Small Firms: A Competence-Based Model for Empirical Research
- Background
- Theoretical Framework
- Methodology for Empirical Research
- Results From the Empirical Research
- Conclusions and Further Development
- References
- Box Short Description of the Case Studies
- Chapter 6. Building New Competences for New Business Creation Based on Breakthrough Technological Innovations
- Introduction
- The Changing Competitive Landscape and Inappropriate Organizational Answers
- Learning Through Internal and External Corporate Venturing: Selecting and Nurturing Valuable (Technology-Based) Business Opportunities
- New Business Development and Corporate Strategy
- An Example: Corporate Strategy and New Business Development Activities at DSM
- Closing the Gap: Internal Development and External Acquisition of Technology-Based Competences
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
- References
- Part III: Diversification and Alliances
- Chapter 7. Competence at Work: Empirical Evidence for Competence-based Diversification in the World Automotive Supplier Industry
- Introduction
- Data Collection and Sample of Multinational Suppliers
- A Rationale for Competence-based Diversification of Multinational Automotive Supplier Companies
- Strategic Return of MSCs: Competence-based Diversification-Activities
- Conclusion
- Notes
- References
- Chapter 8. Technology-Based Diversification: Decision-Making Process Characteristics
- Introduction
- Literature and Hypotheses
- Sample and Measures Used
- Results
- Discussion
- References
- Appendix A. Operationalizations of the Variables (see Tables A1-A7)
- Appendix B. Correlation Tables (see Tables B1 and B2)
- Appendix C. Questions from the Questionnaire
- Chapter 9. Building the Passive Innovator: A Framework for Performance Architectures
- A New Framework and New Units of Analysis for Strategic Theory
- Economic and Strategic Management Foundations
- A Framework for Managing Performance Architectures
- Toward a New Organizational Model
- Summary and Outlook
- Notes
- References
- Chapter 10. A Study into the Alliance Capability Development Process
- Introduction
- Definitions
- Theory on Alliance Capability Development
- Alliance Capability Development Process
- Discussion and Conclusion
- Notes
- References
