Networks: A Route to Improving Performance in Manufacturing SMEs

2003 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 119-123
Author(s):  
John Coleman
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Social Networks ◽  
Competitive Advantage ◽  
Network Management ◽  
Organizational Innovation ◽  
Access Networks ◽  
Third Party ◽  
Learning Networks ◽  
Theoretical Concepts ◽  
Theoretical Perspectives

Perceived as important contributors to economic growth, network and cluster groups are currently receiving much attention. The same may be said of SM Es. But practical and theoretical perspectives indicate that SMEs, and particularly the owner-managers, place little value on networks and have only limited networking resources. Consequently, they do not access networks that could help their development and growth. This paper presents some of the current theoretical concepts and practitioner findings on networks. The implications are that, to be effective, networks need to be thoughtfully managed by a neutral third party, and that clear distinctions need to be drawn between learning networks, commercial alliances and social networks, but that all three types yield considerable competitive advantage to those businesses willing to engage. Empirical evidence suggests that with careful, yet intensive network management measurable organizational innovation and development are attainable by those SMEs willing to participate in network groups.

KESUKSESAN IMPLEMENTASI INOVASI ORGANISASI

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 175-182
Author(s):  
Sitti Marijam Thawil ◽  
Santi Retno Sari
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Competitive Advantage ◽  
Organizational Innovation ◽  
Business Environment ◽  
Global Competition ◽  
Competitive Advantages ◽  
Key Factors ◽  
Innovation Implementation ◽  
The Right ◽  
Successful Innovation

Innovation is very important for the competitive advantage of organizations to survive severe global competition and the rapidly changing business environment. Organizations or companies must be more innovative to grow, develop, and have competitive advantages and make profits. The success of innovation for the organization lies not only in the right decision to adopt innovation but more importantly in the implementation of innovation. Although there has been a lot of literature discussing innovation, it is still lacking which addresses the implementation of innovation. The present study aims to contribute to existing implementation literature by, first, the key factors of successful innovation implementation. Second, the process of implementing innovation. Third, the strategic aspect of the implementation of innovation. Fourth, discussing innovations that will be different at several levels or multi levels and types and social networks.   Keywords: organizational innovation

Determinants of Organizational Innovation

2015 ◽  
pp. 402-415 ◽  
Author(s):  
Miguel Torres Preto ◽  
Juelma Guerreiro
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Competitive Advantage ◽  
Logit Model ◽  
Product Innovation ◽  
Organizational Innovation ◽  
Process Innovation ◽  
Manufacturing Firms ◽  
Internal Source ◽  
Innovation Product ◽  
The Relationship

The aim of this chapter is to examine the determinants of organizational innovation. To study the relationship and influence that the determinants have on organizational innovation the authors use data from CIS 4 for Portugal. The results of the logit model indicate that firm size, geographic scope, patents, process innovation, product innovation, R&D, internal source, market source and institutional source positively affect the propensity to introduce organizational innovation. Furthermore, the services are more likely to introduce organizational innovation than manufacturing firms. The results also support the argument that organizational innovation expands the development of product innovation and process innovation, promotes the increase of productivity and economic growth, and is a driver of competitive advantage.

Contemporary Principles of Heterodox Political Economy

2009 ◽  
pp. 38-57 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ph. O’Hara
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Political Economy ◽  
Economic Development ◽  
Ethnic Discrimination ◽  
Mainstream Economics ◽  
Theoretical Perspectives ◽  
Analytical Review ◽  
New Ideas ◽  
Historical Specificity ◽  
Scientific Results

In this analytical review the author describes the main trends in the modern heterodox political economy as an alternative to mainstream economics. Historical specificity as well as the contradictory and uneven character of economic development are examined in detail. The author also discusses problems of class, gender and ethnic discrimination and their influence on economic growth. It is shown that there are tendencies to convergence of different theoretical perspectives and schools, common themes, topics of research and conceptual apparatus are being formed. The forces of integration and differentiation help establish new ideas and receive interesting scientific results in such fields as development economics, macroeconomics and international economics.

scholarly journals BİLGİ TABANLI YENİ EKONOMİDE BİLGİ YÖNETİMİ VE YENİLİKÇİ İŞLETMELER

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Saadet Ela PELENK
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Management ◽  
Competitive Advantage ◽  
Information Acquisition ◽  
Organizational Innovation ◽  
Continuous Learning ◽  
Significant Positive Effect ◽  
Technological Changes ◽  
Knowledge Based ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Positive Effect

Economic, social, cultural and technological changes increase the importance of information. It is possible for organizations to adapt to change, by sharing up-to-date information. Knowledge-based new economies which consist dynamic market conditions, network-based organizational structure, continuous learning, digitalization, innovations and innovative businesses as competitive advantage source, corporate knowledge management has a strategic importance. Th eaim of this research is to determine the relationship among innovation and sub-dimensions of knowledge management as "information acquisition” and “education and communication". For this purpose, a survey was conducted with 120 employees of 3 innovative organizations that operate in various sectors. According to the results of the research, the acquisition of information has a significant positive effect on organizational innovation (β=0,29; t=3,10; p<0,05); education –training and communication variables have no significant effect on organizational innovation (p>0,05).

scholarly journals The Influence of Core Technology Capability of High-Tech Industry on Sustainable Competitive Advantage

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
Xi Liu ◽  
Shuai Yang
Keyword(s):  
Competitive Advantage ◽  
Organizational Innovation ◽  
Core Competencies ◽  
Theoretical Research ◽  
High Tech ◽  
Sustainable Competitive Advantage ◽  
Technological Capabilities ◽  
High Tech Industry ◽  
The Core ◽  
The Impact

In order to explore how the core technological capabilities of the high-tech industry affect the sustainable competitive advantage of an enterprise, by consulting a large number of literature studies on sustainable competition, the characteristics of high-tech enterprises were summarized through analysis and sorting and a sustainable competition model was proposed based on market, management, marketing, strategy, and organizational innovation. Through factor analysis, correlation analysis, and structural equations of 266 survey data of related companies, the effectiveness of the model based on the impact of core capabilities of high-tech companies on sustainable competitive advantage was confirmed. The results show that the core competencies of high-tech enterprises’ market recognition, strategic planning, management and operation, full-person marketing, and dynamic marketing directly affect the company’s sustainable competitive advantage. The most important influence on a company’s sustainable competitive advantage is market awareness, and the organizational innovation of the company can also influence the sustainable competitive advantage indirectly, while dynamic marketing can increase the other four capabilities to improve the sustainable competitive advantage of the enterprise. The theoretical model is established to identify the core technological capabilities of high-tech enterprises that can help enterprises effectively identify the core technological capabilities that can form a sustainable competitive advantage and then provide ideas for enterprises to build theoretical research on core technological capabilities.

Convergence Marketing

2012 ◽  
pp. 274-290
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Social Networks ◽  
Competitive Advantage ◽  
Relationship Marketing ◽  
Customer Value ◽  
Emerging Technologies ◽  
Market Competition ◽  
Customer Management ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
Customer Knowledge

The convergence marketing has emerged as an outgrowth of relationship marketing. Many firms in the competitive marketplace prefer on developing strategies by convergence of technology with customer value in promoting products and services. It is argued in this chapter that such convergence among the firms involve consumers, social networks, and technology that influence the decision making process for gaining competitive advantage. This chapter discusses the attributes of convergence of technology with customer value that provides higher competitive advantage to the business through frequent interactions among the market players and customers. The convergence marketing emphasizes on strategic, reflective, and organizational look at relationship marketing and contributes to existing knowledge within three fundamental elements including organizational customer focus, customer management focus, and customer knowledge focus. This chapter also examines how convergence of technology and customer value drives value co-creation in the firms and discuss that in an increasing market competition, customers interact with emerging technologies, and consumer communities co-create value with firms.

The E-Learning Phenomenon

2011 ◽  
pp. 161-181
Author(s):  
Lalita Rajasingham
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Economic Growth ◽  
Competitive Advantage ◽  
Best Practice ◽  
Educational Television ◽  
Knowledge Society ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Fiscal Constraints ◽  
Virtual Classes ◽  
E Learning

This chapter contributes to the ongoing discussion on current best practice and trends in e-learning and virtual classes in higher education. With the increasing importance of knowledge as competitive advantage and engine of economic growth in an increasingly interconnected, multicultural and multilingual world, modern universities based on building and transport technologies are assuming virtual dimensions to address the pressures of rising enrolments, increasing fiscal constraints and rapid technological advancements. The Internet and globalisation are changing how we bank, shop, play, and learn. Can universities adapt, or is e-learning going to be an educational fad like educational television of the 1970s? Based on international research, this chapter examines some signposts using pilot projects as a key pedagogical method in the journey from idea to execution and the factors leading to success or failure of e-learning initiatives. Will the e-learning phenomenon represent a new and sustainable university paradigm for the emerging knowledge society?

Innovation Link Between Organization Knowledge and Customer Knowledge

2011 ◽  
pp. 1052-1057
Author(s):  
Helen Mitchell
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Competitive Advantage ◽  
Knowledge Workers ◽  
Customer Knowledge ◽  
New Knowledge

In 1959 Penrose referred to the importance of knowledge for using resources more innovatively and profitably, and in the same year Drucker indicated greater value should be placed on knowledge workers. An article by Nonaka (1991) suggested that the source of lasting competitive advantage is knowledge. Since then there has been a growing interest in knowledge, and an emerging view that the sharing of knowledge and creation of new knowledge leading to innovations is the key to providing future economic growth. In 1998, Amidon referred to the survey in 1996 produced by The Economist describing how rich economies will increasingly depend upon “their ability to innovate” (p. 24).

Knowledge Sharing Online

2010 ◽  
pp. 230-240
Author(s):  
Hyunjung Kim ◽  
Michael A. Stefanone
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Social Policy ◽  
Knowledge Sharing ◽  
Online Social Network ◽  
National Income ◽  
Network Size ◽  
Influential Factors ◽  
Theoretical Concepts ◽  
Social Network Size ◽  
Theoretical Perspectives

This chapter examines the contribution of information communication technology (ICT) to the operation of social and public policy. The governmentality analytic is introduced as a way in which to highlight how ICT is used by the state in governing populations. The chapter identifies four ways ICTs relate to social and public policy. First, social policy can be a response to ICT innovation and use. Second, ICT is used to implement and administer social policy. Third, ICT is used to develop and evaluate social policy. Fourth, the use of ICT can shape the very nature and substance of social policy. The chapter illustrates these theoretical and conceptual approaches by examining the extensive and innovative use of ICT in Australia’s national income security agency, Centrelink.The aim of this chapter is to explore the utility of online knowledge sharing for the health and human services. Experiences in marketing are used as a basis for the development of three broad and interrelated theoretical concepts—the diffusion of innovations, viral marketing, and online word of mouth advertising—as well as several other influential factors to explain online knowledge sharing. Three major elements that stimulate online knowledge sharing are distilled from these theoretical perspectives including internal factors such as altruism, online social network size, and topic salience. This chapter uses these elements to propose a model of e-Mavenism which explains the cognitive processes that lead to online knowledge sharing behavior. Based on the e-Mavenism model, several strategies are suggested for online health promotion and community education.

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