{"title":"Linking management development to firm performance through competencies and capabilities","authors":"C. Lucarelli","doi":"10.1109/IEMC.2001.960504","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IEMC.2001.960504","url":null,"abstract":"Knowledge is a firm resource and skillful management of that knowledge enables competitive advantage. The increasing recognition that sophisticated management of knowledge is essential to maintaining competitive advantage has increased the desire of firms to invest in strategic management development. Indeed, firms spend a significant amount on management development but these efforts are often disconnected from strategic intent. If managerial capabilities play an important role in fostering competitive advantage, we need to explore how organizations develop and nurture such capabilities. Furthermore, we need to gain a better understanding of how managerial knowledge translates into higher performance capabilities. The thesis of this paper is that by placing management development programs in the context of current strategic theories of the firm, and ideas about organizational learning and human resource management we may be able to better relate management development programs to firm performance. This paper develops the concept of management capabilities and competencies as a bridge linking management development activities and firm performance through the development of managerial capabilities and competencies.","PeriodicalId":376256,"journal":{"name":"IEMC'01 Proceedings. Change Management and the New Industrial Revolution. IEMC-2001 (Cat. No.01CH37286)","volume":"40 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-10-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124863953","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":"Managing understandings: a cognitive map of managerial attitudes towards technology and innovation","authors":"P. Pérez","doi":"10.1109/IEMC.2001.960510","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IEMC.2001.960510","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents an empirically deduced cognitive map of attitudes towards technology and innovation of middle managers in manufacturing industries. The map sheds light on possible individual-level factors for the formation of technological trajectories and the continuing technological gap between developed and developing countries, and suggests ways to manage managerial understanding of technology and innovation.","PeriodicalId":376256,"journal":{"name":"IEMC'01 Proceedings. Change Management and the New Industrial Revolution. IEMC-2001 (Cat. No.01CH37286)","volume":"57 4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-10-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129466715","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":"Evaluating R&D performance: challenges and opportunities of China","authors":"Xu Qingrui, Zheng Gang, Liu Jingjiang","doi":"10.1109/IEMC.2001.960476","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IEMC.2001.960476","url":null,"abstract":"This article reviews and summarizes the popular methods and tools being used to evaluate R&D performance in China, and especially points out some limitations and misunderstandings in practice, for example, too much focus on direct output or outcome of R&D, or using the same metrics to different R&D activities and levels, et al. Based on it, and referring to the practices abroad, promising approaches and trends are introduced, which may be useful for evaluating the R&D performance effectively in the coming practice.","PeriodicalId":376256,"journal":{"name":"IEMC'01 Proceedings. Change Management and the New Industrial Revolution. IEMC-2001 (Cat. No.01CH37286)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-10-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129722534","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":"Network and innovation: the impact of initial innovation conditions on interfirm network formation","authors":"Hung-bin Ding","doi":"10.1109/IEMC.2001.960559","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IEMC.2001.960559","url":null,"abstract":"This study investigates a firm's use of interfirm network building strategy when it acquires external knowledge to develop novel new products. Drawing on the literature of product innovation network building activities, this research aims to provide a theoretical explanation of the relationship between initial innovation conditions and network building activities and the impact of network building behaviors on the success of product innovations. The resulting model provides managers with guidelines to effectively manage innovation networks.","PeriodicalId":376256,"journal":{"name":"IEMC'01 Proceedings. Change Management and the New Industrial Revolution. IEMC-2001 (Cat. No.01CH37286)","volume":"88 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-10-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130823344","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":"Engineering marketing of IP business in semiconductor industry","authors":"K. Kobayashi, A. Kameoka","doi":"10.1109/IEMC.2001.960535","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IEMC.2001.960535","url":null,"abstract":"This paper proposes a new approach to \"engineering marketing\" that promotes business innovations in the IT industry. In recent years, innovation in Japan has been promoted by technical alliance, which constructs a creation core network to support the incremental innovation of the new IT market. A new innovation is induced by fusing two \"market properties\", which consist of creative value in the network market. The \"engineering marketing\" has two strategic approaches, the first is \"to generate new concept for the market\" and the other is \"technical articulation for the market\". New innovation in the IT business is achieved by combining those two core processes installed in \"engineering marketing\".","PeriodicalId":376256,"journal":{"name":"IEMC'01 Proceedings. Change Management and the New Industrial Revolution. IEMC-2001 (Cat. No.01CH37286)","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-10-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128881843","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":"A cross-generation framework for deriving next generation innovation process model","authors":"A. Kameoka, D. Itō, K. Kobayashi","doi":"10.1109/IEMC.2001.960471","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IEMC.2001.960471","url":null,"abstract":"The \"chain-linked model\" proposed by S. Kline in 1985, which gave a great impact on the science and technology policy and corporate technology management, denied the \"linear model\" of innovation, which had been accepted for many years. Those two models have been interpreted as dichotomous to each other in the sense that the first is a technology-push model and the second is a market-pull model. A cross-generational synthetic framework, which is newly introduced here for understanding those innovation processes, suggests that the second Kline model actually takes the place of the first linear model as the market grows mature. This framework next derives the \"market experiment\" model in which a new product or service can be detected only by making experiments in the real market. Further, it suggests a \"market creation\" model in which new products and services are created in the market by interactive synergy among consumers and producers. Those future innovation models manifest a new type of technologist to be called \"Techno-Producer\", who plays the important role as an innovator in a highly advanced technological knowledge-flow platform infrastructure well designed for such a complex future innovation processes. Creating new innovations is one of the most critical issues which confront a country and an enterprise in keeping to keep competitiveness. At the beginning of the 21st Century, here is introduced a new concept of \"symbiotic competitiveness\" based on the word of the late Hiroshi Inose, a distinguished leader of science and technology research and policy in Japan.","PeriodicalId":376256,"journal":{"name":"IEMC'01 Proceedings. Change Management and the New Industrial Revolution. IEMC-2001 (Cat. No.01CH37286)","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-10-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116854924","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":"Qualitative methods for identifying latent needs for new consumer technologies","authors":"J. Durgee","doi":"10.1109/IEMC.2001.960522","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IEMC.2001.960522","url":null,"abstract":"In spite of the importance of staying close to their buyers, many marketers feel it is impossible to identify needs for new products through marketing research. They feel that consumer respondents simply cannot describe their wants and needs for products which are not currently on the market. This paper describes two qualitative approaches for co-creating new product concepts with consumers. The two approaches involve (1) mini-concepts (verb-object combinations representing new product functions), and (2) casting ideas as \"CADWOs\" or, new products people feel they cannot do without.","PeriodicalId":376256,"journal":{"name":"IEMC'01 Proceedings. Change Management and the New Industrial Revolution. IEMC-2001 (Cat. No.01CH37286)","volume":"188 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-10-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133782519","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 the R&D manager in the age of reform","authors":"I. Yarnada, H. Yamasaki, J. Baba","doi":"10.1109/IEMC.2001.960494","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IEMC.2001.960494","url":null,"abstract":"This paper discusses the subject of whether or not research and development management is an essential factor for the market predominance of the United States over Japan and Germany. Amidst possibly the worst domestic economic depression in civilized history, it is vitally important for the members managing research and development divisions in Japanese enterprises to grasp and understand fully world trends and leadership. All negative aspects against research and development must be eliminated and a trust built that openly invites investment.","PeriodicalId":376256,"journal":{"name":"IEMC'01 Proceedings. Change Management and the New Industrial Revolution. IEMC-2001 (Cat. No.01CH37286)","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-10-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133414346","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":"Bounded rationality in a three-player simultaneous market entry game","authors":"A. Schroder, C. Schade","doi":"10.1109/IEMC.2001.960520","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IEMC.2001.960520","url":null,"abstract":"Although simultaneous market entry has not been addressed in marketing, management, and entrepreneurship, there are good reasons why researchers and practitioners in these fields should be interested in this phenomenon. There is evidence that the time interval between pioneer and followers is diminishing in many markets, and there are real decision situations that may even be approximated by a \"simultaneous\" entry into a market. This article reports on properties equilibrium of a modified simultaneous market entry game for the case of three players. The empirical background of starting conditions' effects and formalizing them are discussed. Basic properties of the normative simultaneous market entry game, the modified game and the effects of starting points variations on equilibria are also discussed. An outline of the next steps in our research is given.","PeriodicalId":376256,"journal":{"name":"IEMC'01 Proceedings. Change Management and the New Industrial Revolution. IEMC-2001 (Cat. No.01CH37286)","volume":"40 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-10-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128116882","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}
Xu Qingrui, Liu Jingjiang, Zheng Gang, Zhao Xiaoqing
{"title":"Strategy innovation: a theoretical framework and empirical studies in Chinese firms","authors":"Xu Qingrui, Liu Jingjiang, Zheng Gang, Zhao Xiaoqing","doi":"10.1109/IEMC.2001.960546","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IEMC.2001.960546","url":null,"abstract":"Building on the resource-based view of the firm and the theory of dynamic capabilities, coupled with investigations of 112 Chinese firms and studies on leading foreign corporations, a theoretical framework of the dynamic capabilities-based strategy innovation (SI) is put forward and analyzed empirically. This paper complements previous publications on the theories of strategy and innovation. The dynamic capabilities-based SI is the key to wealth creation; it helps to build and sustain competitive advantage through developing and leveraging assets and competencies and to delight customers through enhancing customer satisfaction and loyalty. It is concluded that SI is the only path for firm's growth, especially Chinese enterprise in intensified competition in the knowledge economy. Some theoretical and policy implications are addressed. Further studies are to answer two crucial questions such as: what preconditions encourage effective new strategies to emerge in one firm and not in another?; and what is the mechanism of the dynamic capabilities-based SI?.","PeriodicalId":376256,"journal":{"name":"IEMC'01 Proceedings. Change Management and the New Industrial Revolution. IEMC-2001 (Cat. No.01CH37286)","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-10-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123919757","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}