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Schwartz, Tamara. "A DYNAMIC CYBER-BASED VIEW OF THE FIRM." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2019. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/560827.
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Business Administration/Strategic ManagementD.B.A.
Technology, perceived by many organizations to be a tool, has evolved from a set of tools, to a location in which many companies have located their key terrain through digitization. That location is cyberspace, an inherently compromised, hostile environment, marked by rapid change and intense competition. It is analogous to a dark alley lined with dumpsters and shadowy doorways with numerous people seeking to challenge organizational objectives. Despite the prevalence of digitization, which has transformed the organization from an anthropological manifestation to a cyborg construction, there does not currently exist a strategic view of the firm which explores the integration of the organization and cyberspace. This paper conceptualizes the Cyber-Based View of the Firm, a dynamic view designed to capture the complex interactions between people, technology, and data that enable cyberattack. A meta-analysis of current theory frames the research gap into which the Cyber-Based View fits. This meta-analysis, in conjunction with an exploratory case study of the Stuxnet attack, identified the need for physical mediation of the cognitive – informational interaction. Finally, the Cyber-Based View was used as a forensic tool to conduct a qualitative multi-case study. Using a failure autopsy approach, eight events were developed into case studies by examining, coding, and recombining the narratives within the qualitative data. A pattern matching technique was used to compare the empirical patterns of the case studies with the proposed patterns of the research construct, providing strong evidence of model validity.
Temple University--Theses
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Dousios, Dimitrios. "Entrepeneurial strategy making, dynamic capabilities & small firm growth." Thesis, University of East Anglia, 2010. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.539351.
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Theory on entrepreneurship suggests that the relationship between an entrepreneurial orientation and firm performance is positive. In explaining performance, entrepreneurship researchers have focused on its financial aspects, paying less attention on firm growth as a nonfinancial performance dimension. Moreover, when attempting to depict influences that reinforce this relationship, research attention emphasizes factors external to the firm, thus neglecting the effects of internal firm characteristics. In parallel, the resource based view, focusing on the nature and characteristics of internal firm assets, proclaims that the basis for achieving sustainable performance is related to the capacity to develop dynamic capabilities. As the debate on these higher order assets is emerging, the present study attempts to investigate their nature and performance implications by taking into account the unique physiognomy of small firms, presenting dynamic capabilities as aspects of firms' flexibility. Moreover, this study examines their complementary effects on the entrepreneurial orientation - small firm growth relationship, in terms of their moderating and collective effects. Drawing from a sample of 143 Greek small firms, analysis demonstrated that: a) an entrepreneurial orientation contributes to small firm growth, b) dynamic capabilities have positive effects on small firm growth, c) the entrepreneurial orientation - small firm growth relationship is influenced by dynamic capabilities and d) speed of responsiveness emerges as the most fundamental dynamic capability both in terms of its direct effects to performance as well as its moderating effect on the entrepreneurial orientation - small firm growth relationship. These results contribute to the entrepreneurship literature by demonstrating a unified picture that depicts a series of key competencies, offering a conceptual and empirical path to better understand the uniqueness of smaller organisations
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Patwardhan, Abhijit. "Strategic orientation, organization learning, holistic firm-level marketing capability and firm performance : a dynamic capabilities view /." Full text available from ProQuest UM Digital Dissertations, 2009. http://0-proquest.umi.com.umiss.lib.olemiss.edu/pqdweb?index=0&did=1913289451&SrchMode=1&sid=1&Fmt=2&VInst=PROD&VType=PQD&RQT=309&VName=PQD&TS=1278520813&clientId=22256.
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Darendeli, Izzet Sidki. "AN INVESTIGATION OF FIRM RESPONSES TO RAPID VS. CONTINUOUS INSTITUTIONAL CHANGE: DYNAMIC VIEW OF FIRM PERFORMANCE AT POST-ENTRY." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2015. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/333881.
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Business Administration/Strategic ManagementPh.D.
This dissertation consists of three essays broadly centering on external changes and how organizations respond to these change by altering themselves. My investigations focus on knowledge transfer and innovation related firm responses with an emphasis on firms’ especially, Multinational Enterprises’ (MNEs) market strategies such as ownership, governance and location choices and their non-market strategies such as political networking and stakeholder management. I'm particularly interested in emerging countries and the changing institutional environment in those contexts. To study changes occurring in different speeds and varying firm responses to them, I have hand-collected longitudinal datasets for different industries and employed both qualitative and quantitative methodologies: my datasets covers both moderately-dynamic industries such as multinational construction and retailing and as well as more knowledge-intensive industries such as multinational pharmaceutical, electronics and computer & software industries. Chapter 1: MNE Legitimacy in the Eyes of the People: Insights from Libya about Surviving Association with an Overthrown Regime In the first chapter, I investigate how firms respond to changes that are less-anticipated and takes place in a rapid fashion. Differentiating between the learning that MNEs accumulate at the host-countries and related learning they transfer from similar locations, this paper is built upon and extend theories about how MNEs, cope with institutional voids and transitions in relation to their political connections, corporate social responsibility strategies and interactions with stakeholders in the emerging countries. In order to do so, I conducted an in-depth qualitative study on how different MNEs with different interaction levels to the Gaddafi Regime, society, tribes and the new government in Libya were affected by the Arab Spring. In this paper, using the Arab Spring as a natural experiment and employing Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) and Fuzzy-set methodology, we build new theory on how MNEs can survive and even thrive during times of fast institutional transitions. We introduce “the legitimacy of the government” as an alternative measure of host-country political environment assessment and suggest that MNEs that deepened, broadened and expanded their political connections and strategies to multiple political actors and complemented them with CSR related activities fare better major institutional changes at the host countries. In addition, the results suggest that host-country only specific learning can lock-in MNEs not to see the changing “tea leaves” if they don't complement it with their recent related experiences from their operations other countries. Chapter 2: The Effect of Different Post-Entry Experiences on Changing Market Entry Choices The second chapter focuses on post-entry operations of multinational retail firms that are required to offer a standardized service for an effective knowledge redeploying, but also need to recombine their HQ knowledge with the knowledge that the subsidiaries possess, to ensure adaptation to the local conditions at the same time. The change, now being the multiple uncertainties related with multinational retail chains’ internationalization into different locations, I first analyze how these firms decide on efficient firm boundaries and positioning after their entry into the host countries, and then investigate effects of these post-entry choices on their performance at the host-countries. Constructing a novel data-set of MNEs post-entry commitments in the host countries, my study reviews MNEs’ behavior after they have entered a foreign country and individually tracks their alteration of its ownership and retail format changes over time within that country starting from 1975 and until 2013. This paper provides a more process-based understanding of MNEs’ choices and strategies at the host countries, which extends the scant literature on mode-dynamics. The empirical results show that; MNEs are more likely to change their governance modes after the negative initial performance rather than after the positive initial performance, however, they tend to act completely in the reverse fashion for their decisions regarding changing their initial format choices at post-entry. I also show that the MNEs that change these initial market entry choices regardless of the initial performance have higher probability of survival at the host countries at post-entry, controlling for the dissimilarity between the home and the host countries and after taking into consideration of the possible selection effect of initial market entry decisions. Chapter 3: Differential Effects of Local, Foreign Firms and Supra-National Institutions on the Pace of Institutional Change in Developing Countries In the third chapter, I track changes in local innovation process and IP regime at the same time in the knowledge intensive patent areas such as pharmaceuticals, computer, software and electronics in developing countries. My focus is on Trade Related Intellectual Property Standards (TRIPS) agreement which was signed between developed and developing countries that made it compulsory in emerging countries the protection of product patents along with the process patents. Developing countries were given a 10-year allowance until January 1, 2005, in order to bring their patent system into line with TRIPS obligations as well as other flexibilities. Interestingly, while some of the developing countries such as India used these flexibilities and waited until the end of the 10-year allowance, some countries such as Brazil, Korea and Turkey ratified the TRIPS agreement and put the new regulations into action right away. We explain the variation in developing countries’ rate of TRIPS compliance by new institutionalism and co-evolutionary perspectives, by presenting a framework that shows effects of different actors within innovation systems on different trajectory and rates of institutional change. The results indicate that higher composition of local firms result in slower change of the IP Regime in developing countries, while higher the Advanced Country Multinationals, faster the change. I also find that supranational institutions such as IMF moderate this relationship.
Temple University--Theses
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Nahapiet, Janine Elizabeth. "Towards a theory of the dynamic firm : knowledge, learning and social relationships." Thesis, London Business School (University of London), 2003. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.405963.
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Yinusa, Olumuyiwa. "Dynamic analysis of the impact of capital structure on firm performance in Nigeria." Thesis, De Montfort University, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/2086/11389.
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The thesis examines the dynamic impact of capital structure on firm performance in Nigeria. The aims of this thesis are; first, to investigate the impact of capital structure of firms on their performance in a dynamic framework. This is unlike previous studies in the capital structure literature that have used static analysis. Second, to examine the dynamic feedback from performance to capital structure using the two-step system generalized method of moment estimator. Third, to explore the determinants or variables that influence capital structure choice of firms in Nigeria and the rate of adjustment to achieve optimal debt position. Fourth, to assess the possibility of non-monotonicity effect of capital structure on firm performance and non-monotonicity effect of performance on capital structure. The second chapter discusses the theoretical framework and review the empirical literatures on capital structure and firm performance. Also, the chapter review empirical literature on firm performance and capital structure as well as on determinants of capital structure. The study find much evidence in support of the theoretical prediction of the agency cost theory of capital structure. The stuudy observed that there are limited empirical studies on the franchise value and efficiency-risk hypotheses of reverse causality from performance to capital structure. The empirical literatures on determinants of capital structure suggests that both firm specific and country factors are important variables that drive capital structure choice of firms. The thrid chapter examines the methodology of the study. The population, sampling and sampling size, estimation methods were discussed in this chapter. The fourth chapter analysis and described the data employed in the study. Specifically, the results of the dynamic relationship between capital structure and firm performance were presented in this chapter. The results indicate that capital structure has non-monotonic effect on firm performance thereby supports the agency cost theory of capital structure. The fifth chapter provides results on the reverse causality between performance and capital structure. The findings indicate that there is reverse causality between performance and capital structure. This is evidence in the statistically significant negative finding between performance and capital structure. This finding support the franchise value hypothesis. The findings of this study also reveal that non-monotonic relationship exist between performance and capital structure. The sixth chapter provides results on the determinants of capital structure of Nigerian firms. The findings indicate that both firm specific variables (return on equity, risk, profitablity, age, size, tangibility, growth opportunities, dividend, ownership) and country variables (inflation, interest rates, credit to private sector as percentage of gross domestic product, institutional quality) jointly influence capital structure choice of firms in Nigeria. The findings equally indicate that firms in Nigeria adjust to their optimal debt target relatively faster with lower cost of adjustment because of better access to private debt that public debt. Conclusions from the empirical chapters indicate that firm specific and country factors are major determinants of capital structure of firms in Nigeria and that capital structure choice of firms influence their performance. Equally, there is evidence that indicate that there is reverse causality from performance to capital structure of firms. The study therefore contend that the agency cost theory of capital structure and franchise value hypothesis are portable in the Nigerian context. Full portability of these theories in emerging market like Nigeria may require modifications to accommodate specific peculiarities of operating and business environment of Nigeria.
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Hess, Andrew M. "Essays on dynamic capabilities the role of intellectual human capital in firm innovation /." Diss., Atlanta, Ga. : Georgia Institute of Technology, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/22593.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Management, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2008.Committee Chair: Frank T. Rothaermel; Committee Member: J. Jeongsik Lee; Committee Member: John Walsh; Committee Member: Luis Martins; Committee Member: Matt Higgins.
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Senalp, Umut. "Essays on firm heterogeneity and international trade." Thesis, Loughborough University, 2015. https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/2134/18811.
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This thesis provides four contributions to the literature on the productivity- internationalization nexus by considering some recent developments in the literature. A well-established stylized fact is reported by this literature, which is that exporters are more productive and larger than non-exporters, and two hypotheses attempt to explain this finding. The first, often referred to as the self-selection hypothesis, suggests that more productive firms select themselves into export markets, while the learning-by-exporting hypothesis highlights the role of learning from exporting. In this thesis, first, the self-selection hypothesis is revisited, and it is shown that evidence against self-selection exists in some UK industries. Second, it is demon- strated that some UK firms experience rising marginal costs, although both tra- ditional and new trade theories assume constant marginal cost. It is then shown that the evidence against self-selection that we report can be best explained by the existence of increasing, rather than constant, marginal costs. Third, the learning by exporting hypothesis is tested empirically for UK firms. Highlighting the importance of the scale effect in total factor productivity growth, it is shown that any learning by exporting effects are predominantly attributable to a change in scale efficiency. Unlike Melitz (2003), some recent studies consider some other strategies to access foreign markets, such as foreign direct investment, and cross-border mergers. Finally, following this new branch of the literature, the productivity-internationalization nexus is examined by utilizing a two-country oligopolistic model. It is shown that more productive firm might prefer greenfield investment over cross-border merger, which contradicts the findings provided by the relevant literature.
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Jiang, Yuting. "Two Essays about Agglomeration Dynamics and Firm Economic Performance." Doctoral thesis, Università degli studi di Padova, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/11577/3424835.
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There is a long history of research about agglomeration economies in economic geography and regional economics. Researchers have tried and still trying to answer to questions such as does spatial clustering still matter today? how it evolves? which are their determinants? how agglomeration externalities affect the economic performance of regions and firms?
The empirical literature on agglomeration economies focus on two main topics. The first is about the sources of geographic concentration of economic activities. The second is related to the effects of spatial agglomeration on firm economic performance.
Research about the determinants of agglomeration economies can be date back to Marshall (1920), which identified three different sources: input sharing, labor market pooling and knowledge spillovers. Apparel manufacturer in New York is an example of input sharing, since firms can purchase a variety of relatively cheap buttons from nearby button manufacturing firms. A software company in Silicon Valley can quickly hire one skilled programmer. Meanwhile, a skilled programmer living in Silicon Valley can easily find a new job in this cluster without moving to another place. This is a good example of labor market pooling, which reduces the searching costs for both employees and employers, as well as improves the matching quality. An example of knowledge spillovers can be the random interaction between people working in similar fields who exchange tacit knowledge with each other.
Research about the effects of spatial agglomeration on firm economic performance is more recent. Generally it refers to the effects of spatial agglomeration and thus of different types of local externalities on firms’ economic performance, that is whether location within an agglomerated area generates positive returns on the economic performance of firms and, consequently, of the economic dynamisms and growth of regions.
This thesis intends to move along this line of research, specifically, try to contribute to this debate in two directions: [1] investigating the temporal dynamics of spatial agglomeration in the Italian manufacturing industry; [2] analysing the relationship between related variety and firm economic performance in China. In general, the thesis is a collection of two empirical studies dealing with spatial agglomeration from two different perspectives.
The first chapter of this thesis, “Agglomeration over time”, which is co-authored with Giulio Cainelli (University of Padova) and Roberto Ganau (University of Padova and LSE), is aimed to investigate the space-time agglomeration dynamics that characterised the manufacturing industry during the recent period of the Great Recession. Specifically, the analysis uses a large sample of geo-referenced single-plant manufacturing firms observed over the period 2007-2012 and located in the Italian continental territory to explore the spatial and temporal dimensions of clustering processes, as well as their potential interaction. The empirical analysis is carried out by adopting three different statistical approaches. First, the index of industrial geographic concentration proposed by Ellison and Glaeser (1997). Second, the spatial K-function, originally proposed by Ripley (1976) in the context of spatial points pattern analyses. Third, the space-time K-function, that has been proposed by Diggle et al. (1995) as an extension of the univariate spatial K-function in order to analyse simultaneously the spatial and temporal dimensions of spatial points processes, as well as their potential interaction. The analysis based on EG index highlights the existence of heterogeneity in spatial agglomeration between different industries, but this region-based measure suffers from MAUP problem. To correct the MAUP, we introduce spatial point process method-K function,as well as M-function, which relying on micro-geographic data, rather than pre-defined spatial area, to test firm location patter against Completely Spatial Randomness (CSR). To address the dynamic process that evolve both over space and time, we apply space-time K-function, and some statistical diagnostics, to test the potential interaction between these two dimensions. By space-time analysis, we empirically confirm that, different space-time processes can lead to the spatial patterns which look the same. No significant interaction between spatial and temporal processes, which could be the short period we observe.
The second chapter of the thesis “Related Variety and Economic Growth at Firm Level in China”, which is a single-authored paper, aims at investigating the effect of related and unrelated variety on firm level economic growth in China. As empirical results of MAR externalities and Jacobs externalities impact on economic growth are various and inconclusive. Related variety and unrelated variety, a new entropy method proposed by Frenken et.al.(2007), which focuses on the structure inside industry, was applied in this chapter. Basically, firm economic proportional growth specification-Gibrat’s Law, is extended including these two agglomeration externalities-which sectoral diversity is split into related and unrelated variety for distinguishing between sectors with cognitive or technology proximity, with a sample of 84,868 Chinese firms operating in manufactory industry observed during the period 2006-2013. Recent studies about related variety and economic growth, which indeed is the main reason for regional growth, most empirical papers are about developed countries, studies about developing countries are rare. This chapter contributes an empirical study about this debate in a typical developing country, and to our knowledge, it’s the first paper analysis Chinese firms economic growth within related variety framework; besides it’s a firm level empirical research with historical data during 2006-2013, a transformation period for China, with rapid economic development and technological innovation. The results show that, correcting only for sample-selection, unrelated variety has a negative and statistically significant impact. Accounting also for the endogeneity of the two main explanatory variables – related and unrelated variety –the negative effect of unrelated variety becomes insignificant. A positive effect for related variety and negative for unrelated variety is detected only when we consider high-developed Chinese regions. Finally, a positive effect of related variety is identified for large firms.
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MEMBRETTI, MARCO. "Firm size and the Macroeconomy." Doctoral thesis, Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, 2023. https://hdl.handle.net/10281/403956.
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La tesi è formata da due capitoli su dinamica della distribuzione delle imprese e shock aggregati. Usando un modello ad imprese eterogenee, la tesi studia le fluttuazioni di ciclo economico dovute a shock alla tecnologia ed ai costi in entrata.This dissertation collects two essays on firm size dynamics and aggregate shocks. By employing a model with heterogeneous firms, search frictions and endogenous entry/exit we investigate the business cycle dynamics of the firm size distribution by looking at entry cost and technology shocks. The thesis is divided into two chapters.\\ The first chapter explores how an increase in entry costs affects the size of new entrants and the concentration of employment according to firm size, along with its effects on macro-variables such as unemployment and the exit rate. To this aim we use a BVAR model to estimate the response of such variables to an entry cost shock, then we develop a heterogeneous-firm model with search frictions and endogenous entry/exit dynamics calibrated on data from Business Dynamics Statistics (BDS) database to address our empirical results.\\ We find that positive entry cost shocks increase the average size of entrants and move employment shares toward the largest firms. These results reveal the role of entry costs' fluctuations in explaining the dynamics at business cycle horizons of both firm and employment share distributions according to size.\\ The second chapter perturbed the model with a technology shock to replicate the long-run differential of job destruction due to exit between small and large firms and its empirical response to technology shocks (estimated by a BVAR). Contrary to frameworks with \textit{exogenous} exit, the model is able to account for the volatility of exit and the differential of job destruction due to exit between small and large firms conditional to the technology shock. Moreover we find that not only entry but also exit is a viable amplification channel for the response of unemployment to the shock.\\
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Tan, David Tatwei Banking & Finance Australian School of Business UNSW. "Corporate governance and firm outcomes: causation or spurious correlation?" Awarded By:University of New South Wales. Banking & Finance, 2009. http://handle.unsw.edu.au/1959.4/43371.
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The rapid growth of financial markets and the increasing diffusion of corporate ownership have placed tremendous emphasis on the effectiveness of corporate governance in resolving agency conflicts within the firm. This study investigates the corporate governance and firm performance/failure relation by implementing various econometric modelling methods to disaggregate causal relations and spurious correlations. Using a panel dataset of Australian firms, a comprehensive suite of corporate governance mechanisms are considered; including the ownership, remuneration, and board structures of the firm. Initial ordinary least squares (OLS) and fixed-effects panel specifications report significant causal relations between various corporate governance measures and firm outcomes. However, the dynamic generalised method of moments (GMM) results indicate that no causal relations exist when taking into account the effects of simultaneity, dynamic endogeneity, and unobservable heterogeneity. Moreover, these results remain robust when accounting for the firm??s propensity for fraud. The findings support the equilibrium theory of corporate governance and the firm, suggesting that a firm??s corporate governance structure is an endogenous characteristic determined by other firm factors; and that any observed relations between governance and firm outcomes are spurious in nature. Chapter 2 examines the corporate governance and firm performance relation. Using a comprehensive suite of corporate governance measures, this chapter finds no evidence of a causal relation between corporate governance and firm performance when accounting for the biases introduced by simultaneity, dynamic endogeneity, and unobservable heterogeneity. This result is consistent across all firm performance measures. Chapter 3 explores the corporate governance and likelihood of firm failure relation by implementing the Merton (1974) model of firm-valuation. Similarly, no significant causal relations between a firm??s corporate governance structure and its likelihood of failure are detected when accounting for the influence of endogeneity on the parameter estimates. Chapter 4 re-examines the corporate governance and firm performance/failure relation within the context of corporate fraud. Using KPMG and ASIC fraud databases, the corporate governance and firm outcome relations are estimated whilst accounting for the firms?? vulnerability to corporate fraud. This chapter finds no evidence of a causal relation between corporate governance and firm outcomes when conditioning on a firm??s propensity for fraud.
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Dindial, Miguel. "Re-conceptualising economic upgrading from global value chain participation : a dynamic firm-level perspective." Thesis, University of Leeds, 2017. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/19450/.
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The last two decades have seen unprecedented increases in the global fragmentation and dispersion of production and trade. This phenomenon is commonly referred to as global value chains (GVCs) and is largely driven by the actions of multinational enterprises (MNEs). It is widely accepted, both within academic and policy spheres, that rising GVCs accelerate the advancement of domestic firms in developing countries through new market access and knowledge transfer from MNEs. This research critically investigates the common assumption that this transfer of knowledge enables domestic firms to “upgrade” to generate higher value-added. To date, we have not measured or theorised upgrading in a meaningful way. As such, existing work has only emphasised superficial indicators of the effects of GVC participation. Employing transaction cost economics (TCE) and power-dependence theory as a foundation, I refine our understanding regarding the impact of GVC participation on developing economy firms. I show that while GVC participation may lead to various upgrading trajectories, it can also produce mechanisms that enable asymmetric value-added appropriation by MNEs. Using empirical insights from an in-depth embedded case study, I demonstrate that TCE’s core efficiency seeking assumption is overly static and only one of the motives driving an MNE’s choice of governance structure. In this sense, the contractual relationship that allows for transaction cost minimisation may not be the one that is pursued by the MNE. While prior research has investigated this assumption, the arguments put forward are justified from a constrained perspective. Such theorization positions suboptimal contractual relationships as an organisational decision of “last resort”. This thesis proposes a novel theoretical argument, one where MNEs may intentionally engage in relationships that conform to the notion of suboptimality. The analysis suggests that MNEs can strategically engage in suboptimal contracts in order to create the conditions needed to maintain a favourable long-term bargaining position. Beyond this 1st tier theorization, I provide much needed insight into the implications of GVC participation on the lower tiers of the value chain. GVCs rarely comprise of value-adding processes that involve only the MNE and a single tier of producing firms. Instead, it is common for value-adding tiers to exist beyond MNE-1st tier relationships. Even so, GVC and linkage studies have focused on understanding the effects of interactions between the MNE and its immediate suppliers. The empirical analysis suggests that in the presence of 1st tier supplier lock-in, the MNE can extend its control beyond its direct contractual relationships.
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Li, Yubin, and 李玉彬. "Integrated dynamic perspective on firm competencies and organizationalperformance: a study of China's largeconstruction SOEs." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2007. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B3896823X.
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Marshburn, David G. "Agile Software Development Approach and Firm Performance: Exploring Dynamic Capabilities as the Missing Link." Cleveland State University / OhioLINK, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=csu1589465728412254.
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BARBARO, BIANCA. "Sectoral shocks and banking crises in a schumpeterian model of endogenous firm dynamics." Doctoral thesis, Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10281/241309.
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In the first chapter, e build a two-sector (capital and final goods) model with endogenous firm
dynamics to study the effects of permanent productivity shocks in the final
goods sector. Firms are characterised by idiosyncratic productivity levels
and decreasing returns to scale. Shocks are modelled as a sudden
improvement of the technology frontier accessed by new entrants, which then
gradually spreads to incumbent firms. The shock drives less efficient firms
out of the market and unambiguously raises productivity and output in the
long run. By contrast, creative destruction is strongly limited by the
initial fall in the relative price of capital goods. This latter result is
driven by the wealth effect of the shock on consumption dynamics and by the
ensuing reduction in savings and in demand for capital goods. The smaller
scale of production of this sector is associated with increased efficiency and
to a reduced relative price of capital goods. As a result, production costs
in the final goods sector, fall and fewer incumbents exit the market.
Relative to what would happen in a standard one sector model, we obtain
a contraction in the initial employment fall associated with the shock.
In the second chapter, We build a business cycle model characterized by endogenous firms dynamic, idiosyncratic productivity levels and by a financial sector.
Starting from a set-up \`{a} la Gerlter and Karadi (2011 \cite{gertler2011model}), we extend the financial sector including firms' default and the possibility to roll-over borrowing condition to unproductive firms. We find that a technology improvement discourages debt roll-over, reducing the share of Non-performing loans (NPL) and unproductive incumbent through the entry of new and more productive firms. New entrants, raise market competition and increase interest rates, financial intermediaries incentive to renegotiated debt condition decrease and the same happens to the share of NPLs. Furthermore, an adverse shock to financial intermediaries capital triggers an ever-greening mechanism that increases the share of NPLs in bankers balance sheets and persistently reduces aggregate productivity.I In the first chapter, e build a two-sector (capital and final goods) model with endogenous firm dynamics to study the effects of permanent productivity shocks in the final goods sector. Firms are characterised by idiosyncratic productivity levels and decreasing returns to scale. Shocks are modelled as a sudden improvement of the technology frontier accessed by new entrants, which then gradually spreads to incumbent firms. The shock drives less efficient firms out of the market and unambiguously raises productivity and output in the long run. By contrast, creative destruction is strongly limited by the initial fall in the relative price of capital goods. This latter result is driven by the wealth effect of the shock on consumption dynamics and by the ensuing reduction in savings and in demand for capital goods. The smaller scale of production of this sector is associated with increased efficiency and to a reduced relative price of capital goods. As a result, production costs in the final goods sector, fall and fewer incumbents exit the market. Relative to what would happen in a standard one sector model, we obtain a contraction in the initial employment fall associated with the shock. In the second chapter, We build a business cycle model characterized by endogenous firms dynamic, idiosyncratic productivity levels and by a financial sector. Starting from a set-up \`{a} la Gerlter and Karadi (2011 \cite{gertler2011model}), we extend the financial sector including firms' default and the possibility to roll-over borrowing condition to unproductive firms. We find that a technology improvement discourages debt roll-over, reducing the share of Non-performing loans (NPL) and unproductive incumbent through the entry of new and more productive firms. New entrants, raise market competition and increase interest rates, financial intermediaries incentive to renegotiated debt condition decrease and the same happens to the share of NPLs. Furthermore, an adverse shock to financial intermediaries capital triggers an ever-greening mechanism that increases the share of NPLs in bankers balance sheets and persistently reduces aggregate productivity.
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Sallinen, S. (Sari). "Development of industrial software supplier firms in the ICT cluster:an analysis of firm types, technological change and capability development." Doctoral thesis, University of Oulu, 2002. http://urn.fi/urn:isbn:9514267095.
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The present thesis analyses different software supplier types and the development of supplier firms in the context of the Finnish ICT cluster, which underwent rapid growth in the 1990s. The central brand-owner firms in the cluster have been accompanied by a high number of smaller industrial supplier firms that base their business on serving their large customer organisations. The research to date on the ICT cluster has largely focused on understanding the development and purchasing strategies of the large customer firms and thus does not provide a sufficient basis for understanding how supplier firms in the cluster operate and develop. It is this gap that the present study undertakes to address.
The thesis begins by building a theoretical framework that identifies the main factors affecting the development of industrial supplier firms. The inner context of the framework is based on the resource-based view of the firm and the capability approach, while the outer context rests on principles drawn from theories of evolutionary economics. Supplier development is analysed as a change from one firm type to another.
The empirical part of the thesis consists of a quantitative and a qualitative study. The former identifies five software supplier types and elaborates a typology capturing their main features, e.g., key resources, capabilities and operating logic. The latter then applies the theoretical framework in analysing the development of four software supplier firms within the ICT cluster. The empirical analysis generates a number of propositions on the development of software supplier firms that together constitute a description of the firms' typical development path and the most significant resources and capabilities enabling the development identified. The software suppliers' change from providing customised software services towards independent production of software products was found to be extremely difficult. The thesis concludes with a discussion of strategy-level choices that are relevant in managing this type of development.
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Chen, Yi, and Kajsa Olsson. "Dynamic integration in SCM- the role of TPL." Thesis, Jönköping University, JIBS, Centre of Logistics and Supply Chain Management, 2009. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-9371.
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Companies are facing an environment with fierce competition therefore to respond to the customers' needs and to deliver on time at a competitive cost is becoming more and more important. Integration between the actors in the SC is increasing in importance and is seen as a core competitive strategy to respond to the customers' demands. SCI can be achieved through efficient linkages among various supply chain activities however internal excellence is not enough and SCM seeks to integrate internal functions with external operations of suppliers, customer and other SC members. In SCI the TPL firms are said to play an important role because of their expertise and knowledge.
Problem:
Previous researchers have identified gaps in the SCI literature which does not consider the role of the TPL firm. Similar gaps have been found in the TPL literature which does not put emphasis on SCI. Nevertheless the importance of TPL firms in SCI has been pointed out as significant. Therefore this thesis will study the role of the TPL firm in SCI to improve the knowledge and create a better understanding.
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The purpose of this thesis is to study and uncover the role of the TPL firm Schenker Logistics AB Nässjö in supporting SCI with its customer Relacom and its supplier Nexans to gain a deeper understanding of the phenomenon. By analyzing the drivers, barriers and outcomes of the SCI for each firm, the paper pursues the notion that SCI is a dynamic process and TPL firm plays an important role.
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This thesis is based on a qualitative approach where interviews with key persons are the main approach to gathering information. The qualitative approach has its strengths is being able to obtain rich nuances in the information which fits our purpose to go deeper in a phenomenon.
Conclusions:
By analyzing the drivers, barriers and outcomes of SCI we have reached the conclusion that the role of the TPL firm is to achieve benefits through the three C's (the company, its customers and its competitors). The TPL firm also smooths out the friction between other members of the SC and help to create a better, faster, cheaper, smarter and greener SCI. Since the factors influencing SCI are constantly changing, all actors continuously have to keep updated to react to the pressures from the market.
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Bezjian, James Bradley. "Capabilities, recipes, & firm performance : how industry recipes influence the application of dynamic managerial capabilities." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/23519.
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Dynamic managerial capabilities are frequently viewed as a source of influence among decision-making managers within environments of volatility. Conversely, managers postulate that decision-making in rapidly changing environments is never perfect and faces a variety of influencing factors. In addition, industries represent a collection of firms that produce similar goods or services for a particular market. This recipe is often recognized by all industry related firms and adapted accordingly. Similarly, firms comprised as “incumbents” and “challengers” are firms that are well established in the industry and firms that seek to change the industry. Recognizing which influencers affect the managerial decision-making process is necessary to adapt and evolve a firm’s decision-making logic. This thesis presents a detailed study of the Hollywood Film Industry Recipe as it relates to the influencing factors within the green lighting process of feature films among incumbent and challenger studios. An inductive research approach is used to investigate four case studies throughout the Hollywood Film Industry. Two case studies are recognized as industry incumbents while the other two are recognized as industry challengers. The analysis identifies an industry recipe, firm adopted industry and adaptations, and dynamic managerial capabilities utilized through the influence of the process. In addition, an illustration of the industry recipes influence dynamic managerial capabilities adopted by firms. Findings suggest that dynamic managerial capabilities is an output of industry recipes adopted amongst firms, and that refinement of those capabilities is a circular renewal process between managerial judgement and firm/managerial dominant logics. In addition, industry recipes influence the way in which dynamic managerial capabilities are acquired, processed, and absorbed. This study contributes to the field of strategy as it suggests a coherent framework that illustrates how industry recipes influence incumbent and challenger studios within a given industry. Additionally, it also demonstrates how dynamic managerial capabilities are formed and structured based on the adopted industry recipe. Finally, it outlines how decisions are made by managers within incumbent and challenger firms, highlighting a circular process of decision-making with regards to the creation an distribution of an industry related product.
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Kullenda, Kuben. "Enabling firm performance through data driven decision making in maintenance management : a dynamic capabilities view." Diss., University of Pretoria, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/79594.
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Maintenance management is seen as a “necessary evil”, rather than a profit contributing
resource that could intensify competitive advantage for the organisation. With the world facing
the fourth industrial revolution, a radical increase in the reshaping of companies and
competition within asset intensive industries is being observed. Organisations in these
industries are being forced to rethink traditional ways of working and gearing the workforce
with higher and more diversified competency profiles. This suggests that the traditional way
of executing maintenance management, being predominantly reactive with the lack of data
driven decision making, is certainly inadequate for a sustainable competitive advantage. An
improved way of managing maintenance should be through developing and applying dynamic
capabilities within the maintenance domain of the organisation.
This research draws on theories of dynamic capabilities (DC), decision making performance
(DMP), business process performance (BPP) and firm performance (Fper), in the context of
data driven decision making in organisations heavily reliant on good maintenance
management practices. The aim of this study was to explore and understand the relationships
between these constructs, for insight into further improvement and development of a
competitive advantage.
The findings presented a statistically significant relationship between DC and Fper, DC and
BPP, DC and DMP, but most importantly, a multiple full indirect mediation role was observed,
which provides insights for both business and for further studies in academia.Mini Dissertation (MBA)--University of Pretoria, 2020.
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Li, Shaomeng. "Do more mergers and acquisitions create value for the firm?" Thesis, Brunel University, 2015. http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/10536.
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This thesis is aimed to empirically investigate the performance impact of frequent acquisitions as an aggressive merger and acquisition (M&A) strategy for an acquiring firm. In literature related to the study of M&A, a common question is whether acquisitions improve the performance of acquirers. Neither theoretical nor empirical studies have a clear view on the performance effect of M&A. Some argue positively and some are opposite. Although existing research are mixed for their arguments, a takeover is commonly perceived as a shock to the firm with a constant effect on changing business performance. This static perception of M&A creates a difficulty in explaining why firms acquire others when the performance effect is negative. To address the issue, this thesis examines the M&A effect dynamically with taking into account the role of merger frequency in affecting performance. On the basis of a large sample that consists of about 14,000 acquisitions from more than 100 countries over last 12 years, the thesis finds that the investors perceive a lower value if the acquiring firm is involved in frequent mergers. This is because more mergers are expected to attract considerable amount of management attention away from profitable activities in order to digest the challenges of new business integration at least in the short run. This “digesting constraint” argument is evident by our estimations. Firm becomes less profitable in the short run after a merger shock, and this adverse effect can be more severe if the firm is involved in more frequent mergers. Evidence of the thesis further show that, the effect of merger shocks is not static and persistent, and it changes with time. The shock affects adversely profitability in the short run, usually lasting a couple of years, and then the negative effect on performance could be turned either oppositely if the firm digests the shock successfully, or otherwise, continuously but diminishing over time if the digestion takes longer such as for frequent acquisition. This finding implies that the pace of firm resilience to a merger shock can be affected by its merger strategies. The pace can be slow if the firm pursues frequent mergers aggressively. The performance effect of a merger shock is dynamic and changes with time. The dynamic view for merger shocks from this study opens a new vision for literature in merger studies. Overall the market expectation to a merger effect on changing firm performance is quite consistently related to what has actually happened to the firm after the merger shock.
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Li, Yubin. "Integrated dynamic perspective on firm competencies and organizational performance : a study of China's large construction SOEs /." View the Table of Contents & Abstract, 2007. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B38724911.
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Coelho, Maria Dulce da Costa Matos e. "Strategic orientations, dynamic capabilities and firm performance in knowledge intensive business services: theory and empirical test." Doctoral thesis, Universidade de Évora, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10174/14105.
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In the present study, we try to identify the factors that induce superior performance in
companies, analyzing the link between strategic orientations, dynamic capabilities and
firm performance. In order to test the theory, we collected primary data through an
online questionnaire to SMEs in Knowledge Intensive Business Services. At first, we
analyze the interactions between entrepreneurial and market orientation, as well as
between market and learning orientation and its effects on firm performance, to examine
if the reported conclusions are valid to this particular industry, using a different measure
of firm performance. Our main contribution respects the integration of strategic
orientations and dynamic capabilities to explain firm performance, where we attempt to
understand both direct and indirect effects on firm performance which, to our best
knowledge, is the first research study of this kind. We also come up with practical
contributions and point some research limitations and directions for future research; RESUMO:No presente estudo, procuramos identificar os fatores que originam um desempenho
empresarial superior, através da análise da relação entre as orientações estratégicas,
capacidades dinâmicas e desempenho da empresa. No sentido de testar a teoria,
recolhemos dados primários através da aplicação de um questionário online às PME dos
Serviços Intensivos em Conhecimento. Em primeiro lugar, analisamos as interações
entre as orientações empreendedora e para o mercado, assim como entre as orientações
para o mercado e para a aprendizagem e os seus efeitos no desempenho, com o objetivo
de verificar se as conclusões de outros estudos são válidas para este setor em particular,
utilizando uma medida de desempenho inovadora. O nosso principal contributo diz
respeito à integração das orientações estratégicas e das capacidades dinâmicas para
explicar o desempenho, em que procuramos compreender tanto os efeitos diretos como
indiretos no desempenho o que, pelo que nos é dado a conhecer, é o primeiro estudo
deste tipo. Finalmente, indicamos algumas considerações práticas, assim como limitações do nosso estudo e rumos para investigações futuras.
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Andersson, Matilda, and Sandra Nymo. "Does intra-firm coopetition work in practice? : A qualitative study of the dynamic relationship of intra-firm competition in the context of organizations based on projects." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Företagsekonomi, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-172958.
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Research on the phenomenon of coopetition described as two competing firms cooperating with the intent to create value have seen a great increase the last couple of years. However, studies exploring intra-firm coopetition have been less popular leaving this research field understudied and in need for further exploration. An intra-firm competition relationship can be defined as when two or more project teams cooperate on a joint project, simultaneously as they are competing for their parents’ firms’ resources. Pursuing such a contradictory relationship is not without challenges and therefore, cooperative and competitive activities needs to be balanced in order to achieve value creation. In the context of an organization based on projects, the dynamic relationship of coopetition poses several challenges for project managers to handle. The purpose of the study was to further generate and assist the development of the theory field of coopetition by gaining a deeper understanding of the coopetitive dynamics on an intra-firm level. In this thesis, we explore How is intra-firm coopetition perceived and handled in order to create value within an organization? By conducting semi-structured interviews, seven project team members from three different organizations in the automobile industry ecosystem, shared their experiences of working project based and being exposed to intra-firm coopetition on daily basis. Our findings suggest that intra-firm coopetition needs to be balanced to support value creation. The analysis of the study was conducted by a project-as-practice lens which supported the understanding of cooperative and competitive activities that the project teams participated in. The respondents perceived cooperative activities as beneficial for organizational learning and stressed the importance of social interactions between project teams. On the other hand, competitive activities were perceived as positive as long as they were held on a healthy level and did not become dominant. Our study advances the research field of intra-firm coopetition by gaining knowledge of underlying factors of cooperative and competitive activities that are sources for tension, and how reaching and maintaining a state of balance is crucial for value creation both for the project team, organization and customer. Keywords: Coopetition, Intra-firm coopetition, project-based organizations, and projects-as-practice.
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Schenk, Ingrid J. "An organisational capabilities approach to digital service provision : an exploratory study of firm strategies in dynamic markets." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2004. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.401992.
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Tewari, Meenu. "When the marginal becomes mainstream : lessons from half-century of dynamic small-firm growth in Ludhiana, India." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/11044.
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Amin, Q. A. "The dynamic relationship between corporate governance and firm financial performance : a study of multinationals and local firms in emerging market : the case of Pakistan." Thesis, University of Salford, 2017. http://usir.salford.ac.uk/44715/.
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This study examines the relationship between corporate governance and firm performance of local and multinational firms in Pakistan. The sample consists of 259 non-financial listed firms of Pakistan for the period of twelve years (2003-2014). As per researcher’s best knowledge this sample size is larger than any previous study in Pakistan and therefore, it has considered most representative sample of Pakistan corporate sector. Keeping in view the research objectives of this study, the data is divided into three samples such as, (1) full sample (2) Local firms sample (3) MNC firms sample and examine the relationship between corporate governance and firm performance in Pakistan. This study has expanded the existing literature of corporate governance by introducing Associated ownership as a unique explanatory variable of corporate governance mechanism. As per researcher best knowledge this variable has not discussed in previous studies of corporate governance and firm performance relationship. Interestingly, this study finds positive and significant relationship between Associated ownership and firm performance for both measures of performance (ROA, MB Ratio) in various models of this study. This study has examined the sample data in multidimensional ways to investigate the impact of corporate governance on firm performance by addressing relevant econometrics issues from all possible aspects. The system GMM is the main estimation technique of this study which produces efficient and consistent estimations after controlling the effects of unobserved heterogeneity, simultaneity and dynamic endogeneity. The findings of this study support the argument that the association between corporate governance structures and firm performance is dynamic in nature. This approach suggests for controlling the potential sources of endogeneity which are inherent in the governance-performance relationship. This study concludes that results from prior studies showing an insignificant impact of corporate governance on firms’ performance may be biased as they fail to control potential source of endogeneity. The study results show that corporate governance structure does matter in Pakistan. The results conclude that the relationship between corporate governance and firm performance of MNC firms are more significant as compared to local firms. The study found that the MNC firms in Pakistan have high standards of governance as they are financially sound and belong to developed countries which impact positively on their performance. The study has found that most of MNC are part of top 100 index firms of Pakistan stock exchange which is an ample evidence of their financial worth. The results further conclude that difference in financial worth, well established internal corporate culture and country of origin do impact on performance of MNC firms in Pakistan. Therefore, MNC firms in Pakistan have better corporate governance practice as compared to local Pakistani firms. Thus, this study suggests that financial worth, well established internal corporate culture and country of origin are the determinants of better corporate governance. The results indicate that impact of corporate governance on firm performance in pre-crises period (2003-2008) is more significant as compared to crises periods (2009-2013). Therefore, the relationship between corporate governance and firm performance is more effective during stable economic conditions (2003-2008) and less effective during financial crises period (2009-2013). Thus, this study suggests that stable economic conditions are one of the determinants of better corporate governance. This study has examined whether impact of corporate governance on firm performance differs across high growth firms and low growth firms. The results conclude that impact of corporate governance on firm performance is more significant in case of high growth firms as compared to low growth firms. Thus, corporate governance mechanism is more effective in high growth firms and less effective in low growth firms. In addition, this study finds a significant difference in ownership structure of both the models as high growth firms are dominating by director ownership whereas, low growth firms are dominating by Associated ownership in Pakistan.
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Engström, August, and Gabriel Norman. "Dynamic capabilities facilitating sustainability-oriented innovation : Insights from a single case study of a Swedish greenhouse farming firm." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Företagsekonomiska institutionen, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-448830.
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The integration of innovation and sustainability has become important aspects for firms to consider in order to remain competitive. To address these issues and/or opportunities, firms need to have or acquire the knowledge and skills in order to have the capabilities necessary to implement and develop sustainable innovations. In a fluctuating market, the dynamic capabilities of a firm becomes important to address possible threats and opportunities prominent for sustainability-oriented innovations (SOI). In current literature, there is a lack of understanding on how the dynamic capabilities of a firm affect their ability to develop and implement SOI. Therefore, the purpose of this thesis was to explore how firms’ dynamic capabilities affect their ability to develop and implement SOI. To gather more in-depth insights about this phenomenon, this thesis conducted a single-case study on a firm operating in the greenhouse farming industry. The thesis concludes that the dynamic capabilities facilitate their abilities to develop and implement SOIs. Furthermore, eight microfoundations enabling dynamic capabilities were unveiled as key enablers of dynamic capabilities for firms ability to develop and implement SOIs. This thesis contributes to existing literature by acknowledging that the dynamic capabilities of a firm facilitate the development and implementation of SOI.
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Robertson, Duncan A. "The strategy hypercube : a dynamic model for inter-firm competition and the generation of profit landscapes in turbulent environments." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2005. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.416766.
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Cambanis, Miltiades. "Leadership roles, attitudes, and competencies required to develop firm-level dynamic capabilities enabling transition from SME to big business." Diss., University of Pretoria, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/59751.
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Small and medium sized enterprises suffer from high rates of business discontinuance
largely due to leadership incompetence. The consequences of the inability of leaders to
establish viable business propositions and sustainable competitive advantage extend
beyond firm-level competiveness and are a matter of macroeconomic prosperity.
The purpose of this study was to contribute to the academic conversation on dynamic
managerial capabilities by specifically focussing on the first attribute that underpins the
concept: human capital. Moreover, the purpose of this study was to identify specifically
what roles, attitudes, and competencies leaders require to more effectively develop
firm-level dynamic capabilities enabling transition from SME to big business.
A two stage inductive exploratory methodology was adopted enabling data collection
from a pre-qualified sample of 12 prominent entrepreneurs. The first stage of data
collection was a qualifying questionnaire and the second stage involved primary data
collection by means of in-person semi structured interviews.
The key outcomes of this study are that as businesses grow and transition, leaders
need to adopt the right roles, have the right attitudes, acquire the right competencies,
and be mindful of external enablers and inhibitors in order to develop dynamic
capabilities that with effectively transition them from SME to big business.Mini Dissertation (MBA)--University of Pretoria, 2017.
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Harrington, Shelley. "Predicting the multi-level relationships between top management team personality as a micro foundation of dynamic capabilities, learning and firm performance." Thesis, University of Leeds, 2016. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/13241/.
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The current study provides empirical evidence and an empirical examination of the micro-foundations of dynamic capabilities through an examination of dynamic managerial capabilities and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and Top Management Team (TMT) personality. This marks a move away from the inherent theoretical and conceptual nature of the dynamic capabilities literature. It does so by empirically testing the extent to which personality can be used to predict dynamic managerial capabilities. The concept of dynamic managerial capabilities captures the critical role leaders within the firm play. There are no mechanisms that capture dynamic managerial capabilities and this research develops a tool to measure dynamic managerial capabilities at the CEO and TMT level. Firstly, this research identifies and measures dynamic managerial capabilities at the CEO/TMT level and links the dynamic managerial capabilities of sensing, seizing and transforming to personality. It, in turn provides empirical support that the personality of the CEO/TMT can be used to predict dynamic managerial capabilities within the firm. It therefore positions personality as a micro-level foundation of dynamic capabilities. Secondly, it identifies that dynamic capabilities do not lead to firm performance and this in turn raises concern surrounding the importance placed on dynamic capabilities within the field of strategic management. This research finds no empirical support for a relationship between the capabilities of the TMT to sense, seize and transform and firm performance. Finally, this research provides support for the importance of learning within the firm and identifies that learning is a predictor of firm performance. Learning is therefore shown in this research to be a mechanism through which organisations develop and evolve macro-level dynamic capabilities. This research therefore contributes to both an understanding as to the role personality plays but also offers a platform from which to measure the dynamic managerial capabilities of sensing, seizing and transforming at the individual and team level. Offering a multi-level exploration, this research offers an empirical examination of personality and dynamic managerial capabilities, which transcends across the organisations in question. The results of this research thus contribute to knowledge in understanding personality as a micro level origin of dynamic capabilities and the upmost importance of learning as a mechanism to support more macro level dynamic capabilities.
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Voelker, Troy A. "The Impact of Social Capital and Dynamic Capabilities on New Product Development: An Investigation of the Entertainment Software Industry." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2008. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc9016/.
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Businesses today face intense international competition, a heightened pace of development and shortened product life cycles. As a result, many researchers recommend firms collaborate and partner with other firms to succeed. With over a decade of research examining alliances and inter-firm collaboration, we know a great deal about the benefits and outcomes firms realize through collaboration. An important gap exists, however, in our understanding of the effect of partnering firms on collaborative outputs. This study attempts to address this gap by examining the success of collaborative new product development outputs. The study was a quasi-experimental study using archival, time-series data. Hypotheses were tested at the project level, defined as the product output from the collaborative development effort. Predictors were developed at both the firm and dyadic levels. Several findings emerged from this research. The primary finding is that roles of alliance partners impact which capability and capital benefits accrue. Firms functioning as a publisher benefit from increases in relevant experience. Firms functioning as a developer benefit from working in areas in which they have experience, but largely to the extent that the developer also generalizes their capabilities. One implication emerging from the capability findings suggests a need for configurational capability research. From a social capital conception, developers with high network centrality have a negative impact on the perceived quality of the final software product. Developers also benefit from embeddedness, products developed by developers in constrained networks outperformed products developed by developers in brokered networks.
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Saeedi, Mohammad Reza. "Pluripotent Dynamic Capabilities in the Internationalization of Firms : Focus on Learning, Innovating and Networking in SMEs from Sweden." Doctoral thesis, Linköpings universitet, Institutionen för ekonomisk och industriell utveckling, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-133305.
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Internationalization of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) has been a considerable concern for international business (IB) scholars. Particularly, for those economies such as Sweden with small local markets, internationalization of SMEs could be fundamental. The firm-specific advantages (FSAs), including what the firm has and does, are crucial for SMEs to overcome in the face of their numerous different obstacles such as liability of smallness (LOS) and liability of foreignness (LOF). Examining the extant literature on the evolution of IB theories indicates that over time, IB scholars have been reaching to dynamic-based FSAs (what the firm does) as the source of developing and protecting sustainable competitive advantages (SCA) across national borders in a changing business environment. The nature of dynamic-based FSAs could be similar to dynamic capabilities. But, when it comes to determining specific component factors of dynamic-based FSAs (as dynamic capabilities), there has been little agreement between IB researchers. In other words, the room of the dynamic capabilities is still dark. In this respect, shedding light into this room, particularly in the area of IB studies, is crucial. In addition, after determining the component factors of the dynamic-based FSAs, it is also critical to know the likely relationships between the identified component factors as well as their impact on the SMEs’ international performance (IP) as an important outcome of the internationalization. This means that there is a potential theoretical gap associated with the conceptualization of the component factors of the dynamic-based FSAs on one hand, and a potential empirical gap on the other. Given both theoretical and empirical research gaps, the purpose of this study is to examine, from a theoretical perspective, the nature of the dynamic-based FSA and its related component factors in the IB context, as well as empirically explore how SMEs’ IP is influenced by the identified component factors of the dynamic-based FSAs. To perform this study, first of all, based on lenses of the resource-based view (RBV) and dynamic capability view (DCV), the literature on organizational capability in the context of the IB studies was systematically reviewed to fill the theoretical gap. Consequently, three component factors of dynamic-based FSAs including networking capability (NC) as a relational-based FSA, innovative capability (IC) as an innovative-based FSA and absorptive capacity (ACAP) as a learning-based FSA were identified, all of which are pluripotent and dynamic in nature. Then, a deductive approach was followed to develop several hypotheses and the associated conceptual model. Furthermore, a survey strategy, collecting data from 330 Swedish internationalized manufacturing SMEs, was applied to accomplish the purpose of the study. Then, the Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modeling (PLS-SEM) as a quantitative method was used to analyze the collected data. The results of the PLS-SEM analysis show that the SMEs’ international performance (IP) is positively influenced by the three identified component factors, whether directly or indirectly. In this regard, ACAP and NC are the two reliable predictors (directly) of the SMEs’ IP. The results indicate that innovative capability (IC) does not have direct impact on the SMEs’ IP, and that its effect is fully transmitted on IP only by the mediating effect of the networking capability (NC). Further analysis showed that ACAP, as an endogenous latent variable, additionally has a positive indirect association with SMEs’ international performance (IP). Moreover, the results also indicate that innovative capability is directly and positively affected by ACAP (innovating-by-learning effect). It was also empirically revealed that ACAP is a very strong predictor for networking capability, which is labeled as the networking-by-learning effect. Another major finding was that in internationalized SMEs, NC is strongly, directly and positively affected by IC; this effect also is termed as the networking-by-innovating effect. The overall picture resulting from the PLS- SEM analysis indicates that ACAP in internationalized SMEs is a wellspring to develop both innovative capability and networking capability, as well as influence SMEs’ IP. Furthermore, these results suggest that the networking capability is a vital gateway to transmit the effect of the other two component factors on IP and, at the same time, directly influence IP.
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Halvarsson, Daniel. "Firm Dynamics : The Size and Growth Distribution of Firms." Doctoral thesis, KTH, Samhällsekonomi (Stängd 20130101), 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-118333.
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This thesis is about firm dynamics, and relates to the size and growth-rate distribution of firms. As such, it consists of an introductory and four separate chapters. The first chapter concerns the size distribution of firms, the two subsequent chapters deal more specically with high-growth firms (HGFs), and the last chapter covers a related topic in distributional estimation theory. The first three chapters are empirically oriented, whereas the fourth chapter develops a statistical concept.QC 20130215
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Warren-Codrington, Alastair. "Trade liberalization and firm dynamics evidence from Indian firms." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/12195.
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Includes abstract.Includes bibliographical references.
This paper aims to investigate the firm level effects from the removal of trade barriers. It uses firm level data on Indian firms, and employs simple but effective specifications aimed to analyze the differential effects in sales and prices of goods previously quota bound compared to unbound products.
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Salvato, Carlo. "Micro-Foundations of Organizational Adaptation : A Field Study in the Evolution of Product Development Capabilities in a Design Firm." Doctoral thesis, Jönköping : Jönköping International Business School, 2006. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-387.
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Bogéa, Sobrinho Leonel Rodrigues. "Country factors and the dynamic modeling of capital structure: an empirical study of latin american firms." reponame:Repositório Institucional do FGV, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10438/8320.
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We develop partial adjustment and duration models to test the relevance of country idiosyncrasies in determining the capital structure of publicly-traded Brazilian, Chilean and Mexican firms. Our data panel, ranging from the 4th quarter of 1996 to the 2nd quarter of 2010, consists of 4403 firm-quarter observations pertaining to 139 firms. Our findings suggest that capital structure dynamics vary by country and that local idiosyncrasies are key determinants of firms’ leverage levels. Additionally, trade off behavior cannot be clearly detected among Brazilian, Chilean and Mexican firms, suggesting that alternative theories steer the financing decision processes of Latin American managers.
Desenvolvemos modelos de ajuste parcial e de duration para testar a relevância de fatores específicos de países na determinação da estrutura de capital de empresas listadas nas bolsas de valores brasileira, chilena e mexicana. Utilizamos dados em painel, em um período que se estende do quarto trimestre de 1996 ao segundo trimestre de 2010, abrangendo 4403 observações relacionadas a 139 empresas diferentes. Os resultados obtidos sugerem que a dinâmica da estrutura de capital varia por país e que idiossincrasias locais são determinantes-chave dos níveis de alavancagem das empresas. Não detectamos comportamento explicado pela Teoria de Trade Off entre as empresas brasileiras, chilenas e mexicanas, o que indica que teorias alternativas possam comandar os processos de decisão de financiamento dos gestores latino americanos.
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Stefani, Rafael. "Inovação da firma e dinâmicas de proximidade: o caso da indústria de equipamentos médicos, hospitalares e odontológicos do Rio Grande do Sul." Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos, 2015. http://www.repositorio.jesuita.org.br/handle/UNISINOS/4949.
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A Economia da Tecnologia tem como natureza estudar o desenvolvimento do progresso técnico, as suas dimensões microeconômicas, o processo de difusão tecnológica e a sua influência no desenvolvimento econômico. Frequentemente combinada com o pensamento evolucionista, a Economia da Tecnologia estuda a firma sob uma perspectiva sistêmica, na qual a história, os vínculos externos, o território e as instituições formam, em conjunto, o Sistema de Inovação que é capaz de condicionar o desempenho tecnológico e competitivo da região. Para esse enfoque, o espaço importa, e diferentes proximidades são relevantes para se compreender o comportamento inovador da firma. A Geografia Econômica, a partir da virada institucional, ocupa-se cada vez mais com a ideia de evolução (NELSON; WINTER, 1982) e de proximidade na formação da paisagem econômica, que entende as experiências e as competências aprendidas por indivíduos em determinada localidade ao longo do tempo como elemento que pode, em grande medida, determinar o presente e a trajetória futura do espaço. Para investigar o caminho traçado pela região, economistas têm procurado pistas em diversas disciplinas relacionadas (ciência regional, geografia da inovação, etc.) originando um subcampo dentro da economia intitulado Geografia Econômica Evolucionária. Nesta corrente, a inovação é capaz de provocar alteração na dinâmica econômica regional, e o conhecimento assume postura central nesse contexto. A ideia fundamental é que existe a necessidade de interação e comunicação para ocorrer a troca de conhecimento entre agentes, que é sustentada por diversos tipos de proximidade. Partindo desses conceitos, o trabalho procura entender o comportamento das dinâmicas de proximidades nas interações estabelecidas pelas firmas para a realização de suas atividades inovativas e utiliza como objeto de análise o setor de equipamentos médico-hospitalares do Rio Grande do Sul. Como forma de atingir seu objetivo, o trabalho faz uso de pesquisa survey para a coleta de dados e utiliza ferramenta voltada à análise de redes sociais. Os resultados indicam que a proximidade geográfica e a proximidade social atuam como importante drive na formação das relações da amostra. A proximidade institucional demonstrou alguma importância para o setor; porém, não se pode dizer o mesmo para as dimensões cognitiva e organizacional. O profissional da saúde (médico, enfermeiro, odontologista, etc.) é identificado como agente que assume caráter estratégico e é capaz de induzir a inovação. Também se pode citar uma relação intensa (porém menos estratégica) com fornecedores de peças especializadas e os hospitais, estes últimos utilizados sob condições específicas. As relações com universidades são realizadas em situações críticas (gargalos tecnológicos), para as quais não são encontradas soluções no ambiente interno ou junto aos fornecedores. Como contribuição central do trabalho para a discussão teórica da área, destaca-se o olhar do estudo, atento à formação estrutural da rede de contatos construída pelas firmas voltadas à produção de equipamentos médicos, hospitalares e odontológicos do RS. Essa pesquisa também contribui para uma literatura sobre as dinâmicas de proximidade que recentemente vêm ganhando destaque, e que transita ativamente nos periódicos internacionais, mas, a priori, ainda ocupa um espaço relativamente pequeno nos principais jornais e revistas nacionais. Finalmente, considerando o ponto de vista evolucionário e a centralidade que a inovação representa nesse contexto, a pesquisa tem potencial para auxiliar no aprofundamento da literatura voltada para a dinâmica inovativa da saúde, especialmente, do setor médico-hospitalar do Rio Grande do Sul, tema que concentra baixa produção bibliográfica e merece maiores aprofundamentos para sua promoção.
The Economics of Technology has as nature study the development of technical progress, its microeconomic dimensions, the technological diffusion process and its influence on economic development. Often combined with evolutionary thought, the Economics of Technology studies the firm from a systemic perspective, in which the history, external links, the territory and the institutions together form the Innovation System that is capable of conditioning the technological performance and competitive in the region. For this approach, the space matter and proximity is considered, on occasion, an asset and hence is sought.The Economic Geography increasingly sees the idea of evolution (Nelson and Winter, 1982) in shaping the economic landscape. It is believed that experiences and skills learned over time by individuals in a given location can to a large extent determine the present and the future trajectory of the space. To investigate the path dependence by the region, economists have looked for clues in various related disciplines (regional sciences, geography of innovation, etc.) resulting in a subfield within the economy titled Evolutionary Economic Geography. In essence, the economic landscape innovative process is considered central element and uneven between regions, since knowledge takes central position in this context. The main idea is that there is a great need for interaction and communication to occur knowledge exchange between agents, which is supported by types of proximity. From this premise, the work seeks to understand the vicinity of dynamics of behavior in interactions established by firms to carry out their innovative activities and uses as analyzed in the sector of medical device of Rio Grande do Sul. To reach this goal, the work uses survey research to collect data and tool aimed at analyzing social networks. The results indicate that the geographical proximity and social proximity act as important drive to formation of the sample relations. Institutional proximity showed some importance for the sector, however, cannot say the same for the dimensions of cognitive and organizational proximity. The health professional (physician, nurse, dentist, etc.) is identified as an agent that takes a strategic nature and is capable of inducing innovation. It’s possible to observe an intense relationship (but less strategic) with suppliers of specialized parts and hospitals, the latter under specific conditions. Relations with universities are carried out in critical situations (technological bottlenecks), which are not found solutions inside environment or with suppliers. As a central contribution of this work to the theoretical discussion of the area, there is the look of the study, turned to the structural formation of the network built by firms geared to the production of medical device of RS. This research also contributes to the literature on the dynamics proximity that growing, and actively moves in international journals, but, a priori, still occupies a relatively small space in publications and national academic journals. Finally, considering the evolutionary point of view and the centrality that innovation is in this context, research has the potential to assist in the further development of targeted literature for the innovative dynamics of health, especially the medical device sector of Rio Grande do Sul, theme concentrating low bibliographic production and deserves further insights for your promotion.
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Macuchova, Zuzana. "Essays on firm dynamics in the Swedish wholesale trade sector." Doctoral thesis, Högskolan Dalarna, Kulturgeografi, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:du-17402.
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This thesis consists of a summary and five self-contained papers addressing dynamics of firms in the Swedish wholesale trade sector. Paper [1] focuses upon determinants of new firm formation in the Swedish wholesale trade sector, using two definitions of firms’ relevant markets, markets defined as administrative areas, and markets based on a cost minimizing behavior of retailers. The paper shows that new entering firms tend to avoid regions with already high concentration of other firms in the same branch of wholesaling, while right-of-the-center local government and quality of the infrastructure have positive impacts upon entry of new firms. The signs of the estimated coefficients remain the same regardless which definition of relevant market is used, while the size of the coefficients is generally higher once relevant markets delineated on the cost-minimizing assumption of retailers are used. Paper [2] analyses determinant of firm relocation, distinguishing between the role of the factors in in-migration municipalities and out-migration municipalities. The results of the analysis indicate that firm-specific factors, such as profits, age and size of the firm are negatively related to the firm’s decision to relocate. Furthermore, firms seems to be avoiding municipalities with already high concentration of firms operating in the same industrial branch of wholesaling and also to be more reluctant to leave municipalities governed by right-of-the- center parties. Lastly, firms seem to avoid moving to municipalities characterized with high population density. Paper [3] addresses determinants of firm growth, adopting OLS and a quantile regression technique. The results of this paper indicate that very little of the firm growth can be explained by the firm-, industry- and region-specific factors, controlled for in the estimated models. Instead, the firm growth seems to be driven by internal characteristics of firms, factors difficult to capture in conventional statistics. This result supports Penrose’s (1959) suggestion that internal resources such as firm culture, brand loyalty, entrepreneurial skills, and so on, are important determinants of firm growth rates. Paper [4] formulates a forecasting model for firm entry into local markets and tests this model using data from the Swedish wholesale industry. The empirical analysis is based on directly estimating the profit function of wholesale firms and identification of low- and high-return local markets. The results indicate that 19 of 30 estimated models have more net entry in high-return municipalities, but the estimated parameters is only statistically significant at conventional level in one of our estimated models, and then with unexpected negative sign. Paper [5] studies effects of firm relocation on firm profits of relocating firms, employing a difference-in-difference propensity score matching. Using propensity score matching, the pre-relocalization differences between relocating and non-relocating firms are balanced, while the difference-in-difference estimator controls for all time-invariant unobserved heterogeneity among firms. The results suggest that firms that relocate increase their profits significantly, in comparison to what the profits would be had the firms not relocated. This effect is estimated to vary between 3 to 11 percentage points, depending on the length of the analyzed period.
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Gostinski, Marcelo. "Análise da capacidade dinâmica de empresas do segmento produtor de moldes do Vale do Rio dos Sinos." Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos, 2011. http://www.repositorio.jesuita.org.br/handle/UNISINOS/3468.
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O objetivo do presente estudo é avaliar a capacidade das empresas do setor de moldes de adaptar seus recursos produtivos às especificidades do ambiente concorrencial e tecnológico no qual estão inseridas. A linha teórica seguida baseia-se na teoria econômica neo-schumpeteriana, tendo como ponto central o conceito de capacidade dinâmica da firma. Para isso, se adotou como método três estudos de caso de empresas consideradas representativas no segmento de mercado em que atuam. Fora dada ênfase aos procedimentos de busca de informações que proporcionam os fundamentos à tomada de decisão das empresas no desenvolvimento de novos produtos. Existem rotinas de monitoramento da evolução do mercado nacional e internacional, de seus concorrentes e dos clientes no Brasil e no exterior. A qualidade das informações obtidas está vinculada às habilidades dos diretores dessas firmas, que em sua maioria possuem um perfil centralizador. As decisões são baseadas na análise das informações obtidas no mercado; a microempresa e a pequena empresa analisadas se restringem a um planejamento informal de curto prazo, e, a empresa de médio porte investigada, adota planejamentos de curto, médio e longo prazo, através da elaboração de cenários prováveis ou desejáveis pela firma, com revisões periódicas para ajustes. Quanto às capacidades dinâmicas da firma, as empresas analisadas nesse estudo apresentam capacidades de busca de acordo com o esperado para seus portes e desenvolvem rotinas que propiciam o desenvolvimento de um conhecimento interno que as diferencia dos seus pares. Também fica evidente a capacidade de adaptabilidade de cada firma, pois apesar de apresentarem características semelhantes ao iniciarem suas atividades, o modo e a capacidade de analisar o ambiente e de reorganizar os recursos tangíveis e intangíveis, fez com que, atualmente apresentem competências diferentes, que resultaram em posições diferentes dentro do ambiente competitivo em que se encontram.
The objective of the present study is to evaluate the capacity of firms from the sector of models to adapt their productive resources to the specificities of the competitive and technological environment that they are inserted. The theoretical line is based upon the neo-Schumpeterian economic theory, having as central point the concept of dynamic capacity of the firm. Then, it was adopted as method three case studies of firms considered representatives in the market that they act. It was emphasized the proceedings of search of information that proportionate the fundaments to the decision process on enterprises in a development of a new products. There are routines of monitoring of the international and national markets, of its competitors and the clients in Brazil and worldwide. The quality of obtained information is linked to the abilities of these firms? directors, which in its majority have a centralizing profile. The decisions are based in the analysis of market obtained information; the analysed microenterprise and small company are restricted to an informal planning of small, medium and long term, throughout the elaboration of probable or derisible sceneries by the firm, with periodical revisions to adjust. As for the dynamic capabilities of the firm, the analysed companies in this study present capacities of search according to the waited to their size and develop routines that propitiate the development of an intern knowledge that differentiate them to their pairs. Also it is evident the capacity of adaptability of each firm, because although presenting similar characteristics when initializing their activities, the way and capability of analyse the environment and reorganize the tangible and intangible resources, made to, nowadays they present different competences, that resulted in distinct positions inside the competitive environment that they are.
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Hung, Yi-Hsuan, and 洪翊瑄. "The Relationships among Dynamic Environment, Dynamic Capability and Firm Performance." Thesis, 2018. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/tw9f85.
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The change of the social tendency has become fast. It is the urgent issue that how to keep firm in advantage position. Each entrepreneur faces challenges such as fewer children in Taiwan, supply chain from china, global market inflation and so on. It is the key point that deciding what to do, when to do, and how to do. The dynamic capability includes the disposition of the resources, the adjustment of organization and the thought in the management and so on. The theory explained how companies adjust each aspect themselves to face difficulties. This research is qualitative research. The purpose is to establish a model which explain the new business or firm transformation. According to former study, this research combined the environment and the strategy into two-dimensional map. We explore the relationships among environment tendency and dynamic capability of enterprise. Research is conducted using three cases which are from midlevel and executive managers. The analysis results show that a business is more closer to the market the more successful the business is. Not only the progress in product or the mastery of the consumer demand which match the trend of development. If excessively focus on technology orientation, it is harmful to the development in the company.
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Hsieh, Meng-Chao, and 謝孟釗. "Multinational Firm Transfer Pricing Under Dynamic Optimization." Thesis, 2004. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/29754310268304119880.
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國際貿易研究所
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This paper employs a dynamic optimization model to determine the equilibrium price and quantity in a multinational firm (MNF) faced with a threat of a penalty. We analyze the impact on transfer pricing that arises from the unanticipated and anticipated permanent taxation policy of home country and host country. Anticipated taxation policy for reducing tax differentials can reduce transfer price manipulation in the long term. However, except for the moment of announcement, such reduction of transfer price manipulation does not occur in the short term, especially in the case of a large time lag of policy. We also show that the boundary solution is possible even though transfer price penalty exists and suggest that governments impose penalty which creates the possibility of interior solution.
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Chang, Shi-Nan, and 張旭男. "Apply Dynamic Capabilities framework in the path of firm." Thesis, 2002. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/44419308559534183284.
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The main purposes of this study were to apply dynamic capabilities framework to research on how firm develop new competences and capabilities in order to achieve competitive advantage, and then create superior performance of operating management. According to dynamic capabilities framework showed by Teece , Pisano and Shuen(1997)，the term “dynamic” refers to the capacity renew competences so as to achieve congruence with the changing business environment, and the term “capabilities” refers to firm adapt, integrate and reconfiguring internal and external organizational skills , resources, and competences to match the requirements of changing environment. Finally, new form competitive advantage derive from competences/capabilities, and competences/capabilities is embedded in organization and managerial processes, shaped by firm’s asset positions and path of firm development. Because dynamic capabilities thesis is a research exploringly, so the study take Yin’s(1988) case study processes. For this processes, Asus company were seleted and interviewed. To follow, build up a initial method of operation by linking coordination/intergration and learning, reconfiguratioin/transformation(organizational and managerial processes) and technological assets and complementary assets and reputational assets(firm specific assets positions) and developed path of firm. On the basis of mothed of operation,the information were collected and analyzed. The conclusions by study revealed that Asus company develop dynamic capabilities with the mode of develop extensively organizational and managerial processes and specific assets within the limit of path dependencies, and then achieve new form competitive advantage.
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Gao, Yuan. "The impact of a firm's dominant logic on dynamic capability deployment." Thesis, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1415239.
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Research Doctorate - Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)During the past decade, researchers have begun to devote greater attention to understanding managers’ cognition in the context of dynamic capability deployment, as cognition shapes the development and deployment of capabilities. However, while cognition has been examined in the literature concerning dynamic capabilities, the mechanism underlying how cognition guides firms’ dynamic capability deployment has not yet been fully unpacked. This thesis draws on the emerging literature on firm-level (micro) competitive behavior and macro forces in dynamic capability deployment to investigate the impact of firms’ exploration- and exploitation-oriented dominant logics on the deployment of dynamic capabilities. More specifically, it explores how a firm’s dominant logic may help explain differences in the effectiveness and efficiency of the firm’s dynamic capability deployment, taking into account external environmental forces. In doing so, the thesis incorporates three studies that address the proposed research question. Study 1 (Chapter 2) unpacks the mechanism by which exploration- and exploitation- oriented dominant logics guide firms in their dynamic capability deployment. This study employs PLS-SEM and draws on survey data from 548 firms in China. The findings suggest that both exploration- and exploitation-oriented dominant logics have a significant positive effect on the effectiveness and efficiency of dynamic capability deployment and that this impact is non-linear. The findings also demonstrate the significant and positive effect of the effectiveness and efficiency of dynamic capability deployment on ordinary capabilities, which in turn are associated with greater firm performance. Study 2 (Chapter 3) investigates how a firm’s dominant logic directs it in dealing with environmental changes conditional on the institutional context in which the firm was established. Market-oriented institutional change in this study is divided into two stages: the booming market transition stage and the deepening market transition stage. I argue that in these two distinct stages, firms generate two different types of market orientation (i.e., semi market orientation and full market orientation) through a process of imprinting. Due to the imprinting that occurred at the time of the firm’s establishment, the two types of market orientation persist and interact with other firm characteristics in the present. In particular, the firm’s market orientation interacts with its dominant logic by channeling the firm’s attention in a congruent or inconsistent fashion. Multi-group analysis is used to compare two groups of firms from a sample of 450 firms in China: those established in the period 1992–2001, and those established in the period 2002–2017. By employing PLS-SEM and drawing on data from these two groups, the results indicate that the relationships between exploitation-oriented dominant logic and the effectiveness and efficiency of dynamic capability deployment are significantly different between firms established in the two different transition stages. Conversely, the relationships between exploration-oriented dominant logic and the effectiveness and efficiency of dynamic capability deployment are consistent across all firms that were established in either of the two transition stages. Study 3 (Chapter 4) identifies two sets of activity cycles governing the creation and erosion of a firm’s competitive advantage: micro and macro cycles. The micro cycle, in the form of a firm’s dominant logic (firm-level managerial schema), which guides dynamic capability deployment and, in turn, firm performance, is an internal system within a firm. The macro cycle, as an external system, imposes industry demands on a firm. In this study, I argue that the fit between the internal and external systems will encourage a firm’s adaptation, whereas a misfit between the two will undermine its adaptation efforts. In examining the impact of low versus high dynamism industries on the relationships between exploration- and exploitation-oriented dominant logics and dynamic capability deployment, I find that in highly dynamic industries firms that leverage exploration-oriented dominant logic, which promotes innovation and continuous change, are likely to achieve a better performance in dynamic capability deployment, whereas firms in low dynamic industries leveraging exploitation-oriented dominant logic to promote strategic stability are more likely to achieve a better performance in dynamic capability deployment. The thesis contributes to the strategic management literature by linking managerial cognition (firm-level dominant logic) with dynamic capability deployment. More specifically, it identifies the mechanisms by which exploration- and exploitation-oriented dominant logics guide firms in their deployment of dynamic capabilities. It compares how the impacts of exploration- and exploitation-oriented dominant logics on dynamic capability deployment are different for firms established in different institutional contexts. It also highlights the need for an appropriate fit between dominant logic, dynamic capability deployment and the level of dynamism within the external environment in which firms operate, which, in turn, leads to superior performance.
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Hung, Ching-Yi, and 洪靜宜. "The relationship between firm''s dynamic capabilities and partnership continuity." Thesis, 2004. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/nvpxj5.
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碩士靜宜大學
企業管理研究所
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Owning to customers’ demands are changing all the time, and the business must understand what customers’ demands while changing, so they would respond effectively, and we called that is domain knowledge specificity.In the next place, the business sometimes can’t respond the demands at once,so they should adjust their available resources and capabilities. The business has to seek for outward capabilities combined with them when they lack of these capabilities, and we called that are dynamic capability, discussed by this study. Through this way, the business can respond the customers’ demands. Therefore, this study tells us that the first thing should be knew by the business is to understand customers’ demands. Secondly, the business must have the capabilities to respond the customers’ demands, and this competence is recombined by previous resources and capabilities or from combination of external capabilities. If they respond accurately, the customers will continue the partnership with this business. The methodology of this study is case study analyzing the business with the partnership continuance. The results of this research show that the positive relation between domain knowledge specificity of the business on customers’demands and how the business understands customers’ demands. The positive relationship between the levels of the business understanding the customers’ demands and the response of dynamic capability to the customers’demands. The positive relation between the business responds customers’demands and partnership continuance. The results provide the business to understand customers’ demands and the way of adjusting capability in order to respond customers’ demands and maintain both parties’ relationships.
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劉香君. "Exploring the Dynamic Relationship between Ownership Structure and Firm Performance." Thesis, 2018. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/z4u33a.
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碩士國立交通大學
管理學院經營管理學程
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The Asian financial crisis in 1997 made governments start to pay attention to corporate governance. Corporate governance is a continuous task. As the market structure evolves, although new concepts and issues emerge, the functions of the board of directors and the ownership structure are still the core of corporate governance and directly affect the company's performance. Past studies have pointed out that the ownership structure is related to the company's performance. However, most of them are static, failing to show how the changes in the ownership structure affect the change in financial performance. The purpose of this study is to explore the dynamic relationship between ownership structure and firm performance. Data were collected from the listed companies in the Taiwan stock market from 2009 to 2016. The companies were categorized into three industries: electronics, finance, and others (neither electronics nor finance). The dynamic relationship was analyzed by regressing the change in performance on the change in the ownership structure based on financial indicators. The results have indicated that the influence of the change in the ownership structure on the change in profitability and the change in solvency would be moderated by the industry and the company size. We have summarized the dynamic relationships obtained and discussed some implications.
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Sullivan, Paul Joseph. "A dynamic analysis of educational, occupational, and inter-firm mobility decisions /." 2005. http://wwwlib.umi.com/dissertations/fullcit/3161245.
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Liao, Tung-Shan. "The micro-foundations of dynamic capabilities, market transformation and firm performance." 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/2440/60530.
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The emergence of the dynamic capabilities view has essentially extended the resource-based view, while also providing an integrated framework for an understanding of how firms evolve and how they secure competitive advantage in rapidly changing environments. While much research into dynamic capabilities has been developed in the theoretical and qualitative arenas, there has of yet been limited empirical support for its core assumptions. Such a limitation, authors have noted, may be due to its equivocal framework and the lack of a model with specified antecedents. This research conducts both conceptual and empirical works to address this gap. The primary goal of the research is to clarify the conceptual structure of dynamic capabilities, while also investigating potential micro-foundations of dynamic capabilities and their influences on firm performance. These micro-foundations, as the research traces back to the origins of dynamic capability from much firm capability and strategic management literature, could potentially include innovation, processual formalisation, social integration platforms (i.e. employee training and education) and the application of information technology. Alternatively, the research also looks into a possible extension of the dynamic capabilities view by extending inter-firm activities. In this part, the exploratory focus is on the relationship between a firm’s intended actions and its employment of alliance portfolios for capability and resource development. Using a subsample in the Australian manufacturing SME sector (from the Business Longitudinal Survey), the research finds a significant mediating effect of market transformation on the inter-relationships within the nexus of dynamic capabilities and firm performance. The empirical evidence of the research suggests that a firm’s dynamic capabilities are able to be viewed as a driver of competitive performance of firms insofar as they become evident in marketplaces. In other words, a firm’s development of dynamic capabilities confers upon the firm an adaptive capability in response to, or indeed perceiving, market dynamics, which in turn leads to superior performance. For the issue of inter-firm capability development, the research also finds that a firm’s capability development is indeed able to be achieved through some potential inter-firm specific activities. The empirical findings suggest that, for a purpose of capability development, alliance portfolios employed by a firm are able to be viewed as an approach to filling its resource stock or exploiting a perceived opportunity in its operational and strategic environments. In addition to the provision of empirical evidence, the research also extends the discussion of capability development by utilising a contextual case discussion in Taiwan’s ICT industry. Comparing strategy adoptions between OBM and OEM/ODM from Taiwan’s ICT businesses, the research reveals that many firms’ long-term and successful path dependencies that are absent the mediating arrangements discussed above may in fact form an obstacle to financial performance and growth into new business locales.http://proxy.library.adelaide.edu.au/login?url= http://library.adelaide.edu.au/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=1522593
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Cheng, Ting, and 鄭. 婷. "The Dynamic Moderating of Firm Strategy for Relational Benefits and Satisfaction." Thesis, 2013. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/6445ns.
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碩士遠東科技大學
行銷與供應鏈管理研究所
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Taiwan 3C appliance chain in the past did not propose a firm strategy of Taiwan 3C appliance chain distributors to do the interests of the customer relationship and satisfaction. And how satisfied with the degree of uncertainty in the environment dynamics and firm strategy and recognition. The purpose of this study are the following: grounded theory first construct Taiwan's 3C strategy of home appliances chain stores and commercial enterprises; to explore firm strategy variables because of customer relational benefits and satisfaction are different, thereby affecting the relationship between the results; explore the environment dynamic the uncertainty of whether the firm strategy and the relationship between the interests of the mediation effects. In this study, data analysis methods, in two phases, the first phase of qualitative research, the second phase of quantitative research, as detailed below: First, qualitative research This study used grounded theory, were selected as the objects, focusing on 32 high-level managers of chain of 3C electric appliances, information interviews to compile the verbatim NVivo8 open decoding, axial coding, select coding to analyze and proposed theoretical propositions in the end, the establishment of the firm strategy of Taiwan 3C appliance chain distributors. Second, quantitative research In this study, according to the needs of the research objectives and hypothesis testing will be the second phase of implementation of the questionnaire, covering 3C before four home appliance chain industry consumer survey, the data obtained to analyze the data analyzed with SPSS 19.0. This study found that the degree of dynamic environment will not mediation firm strategy of relationship benefits. The interests of the customer relationship is the interaction between people and found that the external environment changes, and interpersonal relationships between people, once established, is difficult to shake. Taiwan's 3C appliance chain industry is in a highly competitive environment, competitive strategy and the extent of market orientation taken by 3C per home appliance chain manufacturers are different. In this study, the results of the study can help 3C appliance chain distributors, competitive strategy to develop the most appropriate degree of market orientation, in order to enhance the purpose of operating performance. Some of the problems and limitations of this study hereby will be facing the implementation of the research process, such as the implementation of the limitations of the survey.Older preparedness mentality strong, so is willing to help the ratio of completed the questionnaire also low, due to more difficult to ask the views of older consumers.
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"The impact of dynamic IT capability and organizational culture on firm performance." THE GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY, 2008. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3296995.
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Liao, Chung-hao, and 廖崇皓. "Application of CONWIP Packaging Firm with Multi-A System Dynamic Simulation Study." Thesis, 2012. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/86090798890279456352.
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碩士逢甲大學
工業工程與系統管理學研究所
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Many production models may be applied to Semiconductor Packaging Firms. This study aims to discover how CONWIP be applied to packaging production. In this study, the Packaging Firm''s production process is analyzed and the bottleneck of production is determined. Then, we construct a CONWIP production model which is around the bottleneck production. Finally, a VENSIM simulation model is built through the investigation of the impact factors of production and their associated causal-loop. The simulation model is used to study the dynamic influences on performances. Two simulations are presented in the thesis. One is to study the comparative advantages of CONWIP model with traditional production model. The other is to study the WIP-influences on the order variability of CONWIP model. The simulation results show that CONWIP Production system may mitigate WIP variation and the whole inventory is fewer than the traditional model. In practice, Packaging Firms can set up the production parameters by running the proposed dynamic simulation model before real production. Proper production parameters may increase system performances.