{"title":"Surviving a Crisis? Make or Buy Decisions in Innovative Industries and Their Effects on Supply Chain","authors":"E. Esposito, M. Raffa","doi":"10.1080/14632440110101237","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14632440110101237","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Many studies have shown how supply systems in innovative industries have became crucial for large firms to be competitive. Nevertheless, most of these studies refer to supply systems that were developed over a long period of economic growth. It is not yet evident how an economic slow down could modify supplier-customer relationships. This aspect is even more important if the fact that a number of large firms that developed integrated supply systems find themselves facing declining markets today is considered. The aim of this paper is to ascertain if the supply systems continue to evolve towards more complete form of collaboration between firms or if, on the contrary, the customer reinstates the activities given to the supplier during periods of crisis. The impact of economic crisis on supply systems has been studied by examining the results of a field survey concerning the supply systems of two companies in high-tech industries. It emerges that in a period of profound crisis the customer passes i...","PeriodicalId":131401,"journal":{"name":"Enterprise and Innovation Management Studies","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133091135","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Organizational Performance of Technology-Based Firms – the Role of Technology and Business Strategies","authors":"Alexandre Chamanski, Sigmund J. Waagø","doi":"10.1080/14632440110105062","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14632440110105062","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The primary aim of this paper is to explore organizational success of technology-based firms. The novelty of the study is that it mines the relationship between organizational success and the strategies with regard to the age, development phase, and core business of the firm. Having analysed a sample of 115 Norwegian technology-based firms, significant links were found between the firm’s strategy and organizational success. The analysis demonstrated that the strength of association between different strategic dimensions and organizational success varies with the firm age, through the firm lifecycle, and from industry to industry. A relationship between several dimensions of the technology and business strategies was also found It is therefore reasonable to assume that a proper combination of the technology and business strategies, rather than each of them taken along, is an important factor of successful performance of technology-based firms. Finally, two alternative measures of organizational pe...","PeriodicalId":131401,"journal":{"name":"Enterprise and Innovation Management Studies","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125174342","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Structuring Innovation: A Conceptual Model and Implementation Methodology","authors":"L. Dooley, D. O’Sullivan","doi":"10.1080/14632440110101246","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14632440110101246","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This paper represents part of an ongoing research project into ‘systems innovation management’, which strives to develop organizational processes that encourage systemic and continuous innovation. The primary focus of this paper is to present a conceptual model of the systems innovation process, together with an integrated implementation methodology to facilitate its realization. A synopsis of ‘macro’ causes for failure of organizational initiatives to innovate their systems is also presented. The structured approach presented in this paper has been developed to reflect the reality of modern systems innovation processes and to assist organizations in their attempts to manage them effectively. Thus, by improving the overall management of an organization’s innovation process, there is an increased likelihood that the success rate of output from the process will also be improved.","PeriodicalId":131401,"journal":{"name":"Enterprise and Innovation Management Studies","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121389508","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Academic Entrepreneurship and Long-Term Business Relationships: Understanding ‘Commercialization’ Activities","authors":"P. Benneworth","doi":"10.1080/14632440110110011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14632440110110011","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This paper develops a critique of linear, short-term and transaction-based approaches to universities’ roles in innovation systems that separate the production of knowledge within universities from the decision to commercialize that knowledge. In particular, it examines the concept of ‘commercialization’ activities within universities as somehow separate from the product of knowledge to be commercialized. Through a specific case-study of collaborative research between the university and the private sector, the research goes on to examine a long-term academic-industrial relationship that evolved over time and produced benefits not necessarily obvious at the start.","PeriodicalId":131401,"journal":{"name":"Enterprise and Innovation Management Studies","volume":"62 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114228518","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Like Father Like Son? Small Family Business Succession Problems in Finland","authors":"P. Malinen","doi":"10.1080/14632440110105053","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14632440110105053","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Small family business succession has gained increasing attention during the past decade. In Finland, research projects on family businesses as well as family business succession have, however, been rare. In this research project, a group representing two generations of small family businesses from Southwest Finland was interviewed in order to answer to the research topic, namely, What are the problems of family business succession in Finland at the moment? Findings of the present study are in line with previous results. However, time-consuming planning and open discussions within the extended family' were named as the biggest and most important problems to be overcome in a succession process. SME policy measures and limitations of the study are also discussed in the article.","PeriodicalId":131401,"journal":{"name":"Enterprise and Innovation Management Studies","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123913601","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Social Capital and Entrepreneurship in Great Britain","authors":"P. Abell, R. Crouchley, C. Mills","doi":"10.1080/14632440110083382","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14632440110083382","url":null,"abstract":"This paper examines the evidence for the existence of a link between social capital and the propensity to become an entrepreneur. Entrepreneurship is proxied by self-employment and the influence of social capital is indicated both indirectly in aggregate-level data analysis and directly in micro-level data. The results suggest a modest, but heretofore neglected influence of social capital on entrepreneurship levels and suggest a reason why existing research on self-employment has tended to produce inconclusive and inconsistent results.","PeriodicalId":131401,"journal":{"name":"Enterprise and Innovation Management Studies","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125313679","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
E. Autio, R. Keeley, M. Klofsten, George G. C. Parker, M. Hay
{"title":"Entrepreneurial Intent among Students in Scandinavia and in the USA","authors":"E. Autio, R. Keeley, M. Klofsten, George G. C. Parker, M. Hay","doi":"10.1080/14632440110094632","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14632440110094632","url":null,"abstract":"An application of the theory of planned behaviour is developed here to analyse factors influencing entrepreneurial intent among university students. The study provides a test of the robustness of the intent approach using international comparisons. The samples are from Finland (Helsinki University of Technology), Sweden (Linkoping University), USA (Stanford University and University of Colorado, Colorado Springs), and the UK (London Business School). The international comparisons indicate a good robustness of the model. Perceived behavioural control emerges as the most important determinant of entrepreneurial intent.","PeriodicalId":131401,"journal":{"name":"Enterprise and Innovation Management Studies","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134484348","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Role of Two Agglomeration Economies in the Production of Innovation: A Comparison between Localization Economies and Urbanization Economies","authors":"Junghoon Ki","doi":"10.1080/14632440110083373","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14632440110083373","url":null,"abstract":"Little agglomeration research is directly associated with innovation production. Therefore this study compares two aspects of agglomeration economies to determine a dominant force in innovating. Urbanization economies proves to be important because cities are a space for new ideas, information, and learning facilities through residential amenities for RD better business conditions; and an effective cumulative learning than are localization economies. Big firms tend to decentralize functions beyond the localized areas, or develop vertical integration where innovation depends more on primate cities than a localized area. Small-and-medium-sized firms are found to be more competitive than co-operative in a localized industry.","PeriodicalId":131401,"journal":{"name":"Enterprise and Innovation Management Studies","volume":"39 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131649330","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Narratives of Learning, Development and Innovation: Evidence from a Manufacturing SME","authors":"Elizabeth Barnett, J. Storey","doi":"10.1080/14632440110071123","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14632440110071123","url":null,"abstract":"In this article we examine the connections between learning and innovation. We do so in a particular and distinctive way - not by hypothesizing causal linkages through statistical associations arising from a survey, but through detailed attention to the insights, understandings and perceived meaningful connections we observed in the discourse of participants in a highly innovative company. This company had robust and externally validated empirical measures of innovativeness and participants shared a sense of this. When we invited the managers, supervisors and operatives to give us narratives about innovations in the company, analysis of the interview transcripts showed an unusual degree of congruence between the understandings and sense-making of the various informants: both managers and employees alike seemed to perceive strong connections between the company's track record of innovative performance and its ingrained learning and development practices. Moreover, these connections were seen to extend back...","PeriodicalId":131401,"journal":{"name":"Enterprise and Innovation Management Studies","volume":"85 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121741137","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Structural Competitiveness and Learning Regions","authors":"P. Cooke, G. Schienstock","doi":"10.1080/14632440010023217","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14632440010023217","url":null,"abstract":"This paper explores changing notions of competitiveness. It first notes how quickly the Japanese economy, an exemplar of best practice and source of such organizational innovations as 'lean production' has passed its peak as a tutor economy. Currently, the USA is hegemonic in this respect, having applied key principles of 'structured competitiveness' with a strong emphasis on innovation through exploitation of science and technology in the research base, something in which Japan has traditionally been weak. The article develops this model of innovation management by explaining diverse aspects of innovation management learning at the regional level organized through the development of 'regional innovation systems'.","PeriodicalId":131401,"journal":{"name":"Enterprise and Innovation Management Studies","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114418641","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}