
Focused Issue on Understanding Growth
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- 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
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