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A focused issue on understanding growth : entrepreneurship, innovation, and diversification /

The contributors in this volume address key processes essential to successful organization competence building, leveraging, and maintenance.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Sanchez, Ron, Heene, Aimé
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam ; San Diego : Elsevier JAI, [2005]
Edición:1st ed.
Colección:Research in competence-based management ; v. 3.
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Managing Knowledge Assets and Organizational Learning
  • 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
  • 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 Actions to Remain in a Situation of Encompassing Change
  • Permanova
  • Entrepreneurial Actions for Sustained Intense Technological Exploration
  • Susar
  • Entrepreneurial Actions for Sustained Intense Market Exploration
  • Polar
  • Entrepreneurial Actions to Move from Encompassing to Incremental Change
  • Vitec
  • Entrepreneurial Drives and the Development of Dynamic Capabilities
  • Entrepreneurial Drives towards Creation, Expansion, and Building
  • Dynamic Capability
  • The Managerial Ability to Balance Contradicting Demands
  • Development of Dynamic Capabilities
  • A Process over Time
  • References
  • 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
  • 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
  • Resource-Based View
  • Real Options-Based View
  • Networks-Based View
  • Research Methods
  • Observations
  • Leveraging and Upgrading Competences
  • Reserving the Right to Play in Alternative Markets/Technologies
  • Building an Ecosystem
  • Discussion and Conclusions
  • Notes
  • References
  • Part II: Innovation
  • 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
  • Innovation Strategies in Small Firms: A Competence-Based Model for Empirical Research
  • Background
  • Theoretical Framework
  • The Relevance of Emotional and Intuitive Energy in Small Firm Management
  • Beyond the Limits of the Core Competence Perspective: Competence-Based Strategic Management
  • Resources and Capabilities Categories within the ''Small Firm as Fuzzy Boundary System.