Vol. 8, No. 3 (2013)
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Predicting Success in Product Development: The Application of Principal Component Analysis to Categorical Data and Binomial Logistic Regression
(Universidad Alberto Hurtado. Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2013)Critical success factors in new product development (NPD) in the Brazilian small and medium enterprises (SMEs) are identified and analyzed. Critical success factors are best practices that can be used to improve NPD ... -
A Study on the Use of the Balanced Scorecard for Strategy Implementation in a Large Brazilian Mixed Economy Company
(Universidad Alberto Hurtado. Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2013)The research described in this paper has analyzed the use of the balanced scorecard (BSC) as part of a management control system for implementing strategies in a large mixed economy company. The shareholder structure of ... -
Underlying Dimensions and Organizational Values in Organizational Learning: Strategy for Capacity Building in Developing Countries
(Universidad Alberto Hurtado. Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2013)The idea that organizational learning is closely linked to innovation became firmly established by the end of the nineties (Argyris and Sch�n, 1978; Watkins and Marsick, 1993; Nonaka and Takeuchi, 1995), however, very ... -
The Incubation Process and the Strengthening of the Firm: a Study in Brazilian Companies
(Universidad Alberto Hurtado. Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2013)High mortality rate and an environment in constant change set up a context in which the search for innovation becomes essential to business� longevity. Incubation has been proposed as an alternative to start-up companies, ... -
Emerging Requirements for Technology Management: A Sector-based Scenario Planning Approach
(Universidad Alberto Hurtado. Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2013)Identifying the emerging requirements for technology management will help organisations to prepare for the future and remain competitive. Indeed technology management as a discipline needs to develop and respond to societal ... -
Innovation in Industrial Clusters: a Survey of Footwear Companies in Brazil
(Universidad Alberto Hurtado. Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2013)The aim of this study is to characterize the relationships in innovation and business clustering processes in the productive chain of small and medium enterprises (SME) of Brazil. The object of study are SMEs the local ... -
Customer Integration in Service Innovation: An Exploratory Study
(Universidad Alberto Hurtado. Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2013)Prominent industry projects, as well as an extensive literature suggest the importance of customer integration for companies' innovation success. This appears to be especially true for service firms, which inherently build ... -
A Study on Alternative Approaches to Instill Environmental Concerns in the Domain of Production Management of Industrial Firms
(Universidad Alberto Hurtado. Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2013)This article presents a comparative analysis of alternative models of production with environmental concerns that may lead to higher effectiveness in initiatives undertaken by industrial firms towards the development of ... -
Managing Risks in SMEs: A Literature Review and Research Agenda
(Universidad Alberto Hurtado. Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2013)In times of crisis, companies need to carefully monitor current expenses and forecast potential costs, which could be caused by risky actions. Risk is inherent in all business functions and in every kind of activity. Knowing ... -
Information Technology as the Main Competence in the Design of the Strategic Planning of Logistics Platforms
(Universidad Alberto Hurtado. Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2013)The creation of logistical support structures aims to help improve the performance of logistics along supply chains, a context where the Logistics Platforms have been gaining increasing prominence. A frequent difficulty ... -
Structuring of the Open Innovation Field
(Universidad Alberto Hurtado. Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2013)Open Innovation is considered a �hot� concept in research as well as in industry practice. At the same time, at least two critiques have been raised against the notion: that it is based on old theories and that the term ... -
The Sources of Competitive Advantage in University Spin-Offs: a Case Study
(Universidad Alberto Hurtado. Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2013)University Spin-Offs are incorporated to exploit the knowledge and skills achieved within Universities. Often, their competitive advantage is represented by specific know-how that may be hardly imitated by competitors. In ... -
University Spin-off Creation by Spanish Researchers in Agricultural engineering.
(Universidad Alberto Hurtado. Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2013)This paper describes how a team of university professors and graduate students created a technology-based company (spin-off) to as a means to deliver their research findings to the agricultural sector. The spin-off company ... -
Financing R&D Projects in Southern Italy: The �Technological Vouchers and Cooperative Research� Program
(Universidad Alberto Hurtado. Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2013)The paper deals with the evaluation and financing of research and innovation projects. The paper analyzes and discusses the �Technological Vouchers and Cooperative Research� program in the Calabria Region (Southern Italy), ... -
Secreto Industrial y Cooperación Público-privada en I+D en el Sector Biofarmacéutico Argentino
(Universidad Alberto Hurtado. Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2013)The article presents a study on the use of secrecy in Argentine biopharmaceutical firms that innovate through public-private cooperation. When innovation is achieved by cooperating with public and external sources of ... -
Offshoring and Outsourcing of R&D and Business Activities in Canadian Technology Firms
(Universidad Alberto Hurtado. Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2013)A substantial amount of empirical research has been conducted on the offshoring/outsourcing practices of U.S., European, South Korean, and Japanese technology firms. However, there is very little research evidence on the ... -
Emerging Technology: What is it?
(Universidad Alberto Hurtado. Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2013)The term emerging technology (ET) has been frequently used by IT professionals and academics. However, little research has shed light on this term and specified its characteristics and what it means. Therefore, this paper ... -
Measuring Innovative Capacities of the Georgia Regions
(Universidad Alberto Hurtado. Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2013)European Union (EU) experience reveal that the composite indicators are probably the most useful instruments for measuring the innovative capacities at the regional (sub-national) level. However, some gap exists in the ...
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