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- Altmann, Peter, et al.
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Sustained innovativeness and human resource management
- 2011
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Ingår i: Research on Technology, Innovation and Marketing Management 2009-2011 : Introducing the Research Area of Innovation Science. - Halmstad : Högskolan i Halmstad. - 978-91-975075-1-6 ; s. 21-35
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt)abstract
- Innovation is paramount to success. Over time firms must maintain their ability to innovate in order to maintain their competitive edge. In this paper we explore the role human resource management has in nurturing and enhancing the innovative capability of the firm. To explore HRM activities, functions and processes that enhance or impede innovativeness we conducted a literature review. Following this review, 10 propositions have been made that link HRM to both incremental and radical innovativeness respectively. Our results include suggestions for empirical studies to validate our propositions as well as some managerial implications.
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- Hoveskog, Maya
(författare)
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Innovation-related Activities in a Low-tech Industry
- 2011
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Ingår i: Research on Technology, Innovation and Marketing Management 2009‐2011 : Introducing the Research Area of Innovation Science. - Halmstad : Högskolan i Halmstad. - 978‐91‐975075‐1‐6 ; s. 55-81
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt)abstract
- Given the complex and interdependent nature of innovation, it is a diverse phenomenon which takes place both in high‐ and low‐tech industries. The purpose of this paper is to increase our understanding about low‐tech industries’ innovation‐related activities and the specific capabilities of the companies that influence those. To achieve this purpose this study has performed an empirical analysis of the Swedish context of the Swedish Electroplating and Surface Treatment Industry (ESTI) and the characteristics of the companies operating in it. It investigated how the companies perceived their expertise and innovative activities in comparison with their main competitors. The main types of innovation the ESTI companieshad undertaken in a three‐year period (2004–2006) were studied. The research and development (R&D) and personnel qualification improvement expenditures were explored. The study looked into collaboration and the factors which companies perceived as important in order to collaborate. Our empirical evidence shows that innovation in the ESTI is shaped notby R&D but by other determinants, such as specific and rare capabilities in, for example, processing technologies, logistics, ability to spot, evaluate and exploit external knowledge as well as their ability to establish and sustain intercompany relationships. Strong relationships and integration with customers and suppliers emerge as pivotal for the innovation‐related activities in the ESTI. Additionally, close collaboration, facilitated by a strong intermediate institution, such as the Swedish Association of Surface Treatment Companies (Svensk YtbehandlingsFörening – SYF, also shape the innovation‐related activities in the ESTI.
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- Sandberg, Mikael
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The Greening of the Swedish Innovation System
- 2011
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Ingår i: Research on Technology, Innovation and Marketing Management 2009‐2011 : Introducing the Research Area of Innovation Science. - Halmstad : Högskolan i Halmstad. - 978‐91‐975075‐1‐6 ; s. 5-19
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt)abstract
- Quantitative analysis of the evolution of innovations at a national systems level is not always possible due to the lack of reliable, comprehensive and adequate data sets. Therefore, managerial practice among organisations as well as policy decision‐making is often myopic and uninformed about actual dynamics. In the Swedish case, there are promising data sets, even if the adequacy of existing variable definitions needs to be explored and debated. Official data collected by the central statistics authority SCB (Statistics Sweden) includes several potentially relevant variables on all private and public organisations in Sweden and their employees. These data are compiled into time series for a number of years, which enables longitudinal analysis. Data can also be merged with other data sets on the environmental goods and services sector and energy consumption data, and therefore allow for a detailed “demographic” or “population ecology” analysis of environmentally oriented or environmentally friendly innovation since at least 2003. In this paper, these databases are described in some detail. In particular, problems of definitions and measurement are discussed, and some initial descriptive statistics are presented. Further, the paper advocates the use of models inspired by population ecology and demography in analysing existing data. In particular, it is suggested that interactive diffusion models may enhance the understanding of the evolution of green innovations and their dynamics. A dynamic understanding of the“greening” of the innovation system is a critical asset in the development of tools to be used for continuous improvements in both policy‐making and the management of innovation in organisations.
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- Hörte, Sven-Åke
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Introduction
- 2011
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Ingår i: Research on Technology, Innovation and Marketing Management 2009‐2011 : Introducing the Research Area of Innovation Science. - Halmstad : Högskolan i Halmstad. - 978‐91‐975075‐1‐6 ; s. 1-3
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt)
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- Wictor, Ingemar, et al.
(författare)
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The Importance of vision in born global companies
- 2011
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Ingår i: Research on Technology, Innovation and Marketing Management 2009‐2011 : Introducing the Research Area of Innovation Science. - Halmstad : Högskolan i Halmstad. - 978‐91‐975075‐1‐6 ; s. 37-53
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt)abstract
- Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate how the entrepreneur uses his vision in Born Global companies. Design/methodology/approach – In this qualitative study, data has been collected by carrying out case studies of three companies. The main approach has been to study the role ofvision, leadership and communication in these companies. Findings – The entrepreneur and his vision is very important in a Born Global company. The vision is like an umbrella and affects many important parts of the company, such as communication,r ecruitment, knowledge transfer and other parts that will form the company’s culture. After a few years these items will help to create the company’s handbook, which will form the guidelines for how employees in the company work and act. Even if the entrepreneurs motivate their employees in a positive way, so that they can develop and do a good job, the entrepreneurs still must control the company. Research implications – This is an area where much more research needs to be done. In this study the entrepreneurs have been interviewed. To get more information the employees need to be interviewed. Practical implications – Implications for traditional small to medium‐sized enterprise (SME) companies could help to understand what happens in Born Global companies. Originality/value – This paper uses a view of the visionary perspective to study the three companies. This could be used by more traditional companies to discover new areas of potential.
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- Awuah, Gabriel Baffour, et al.
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Potential tourists’ image of a tourist destination
- 2011
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Ingår i: Research on Technology, Innovation and Marketing Management 2009‐2011 : Introducing the Research Area of Innovation Science. - Halmstad : Högskolan i Halmstad. - 978‐91‐975075‐1‐6 ; s. 135-148
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt)abstract
- This research deals with the image, which potential tourists may have about a tourist destination.Using a quantitative approach and a marketing and communication perspective, we tried to investigate how Brazil is seen by potential tourists who happened to be European students studying at the Halmstad University, Sweden. The research highlighted six categories, upon which the tourists’ image of Brazil is based, namely hospitality of the population, sexuality, tourism infrastructure, environment, economy, protection and safety. The results show that the image held by the studied target group about Brazil as a tourist destination, is an exotic country with a friendly population with an exuberant nature; the main identity icons are football and carnival events. Entertainment and fun are some other positive attributes mentioned by the respondents. However, violence and fragile security are the main concerns for the respondents.
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- Florén, Henrik, 1972-
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Organising small-firm growth
- 2011
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Ingår i: Research on Technology, Innovation and Marketing Management 2009‐2011 : Introducing the Research Area of Innovation Science. - Halmstad : Högskolan i Halmstad. - 978‐91‐975075‐1‐6 ; s. 117-133
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt)abstract
- This paper summarises the results some major undertakings to explain small‐firm growth. This is achieved through an in‐depth reading of three Swedish doctoral theses written by Tomas Brytting (1991), Frederic Delmar (1996) and Johan Wiklund (1998), and a number ofrecently published articles that have addressed this issue. The purpose of this paper is todescribe what we know about “organising for small‐firm growth” on a firm level. The main result of the paper is a description of what is known about organising for small‐firm growth in accordance with four dimensions: i) the strategy of the growing firm, ii) the entrepreneur/manager in the growing firm, iii) the resources and the capabilities of the growing firm and iv) the consequences of small‐firm growth, i.e. what organisational growth brings to a small firm. The paper also includes a discussion of the limitations of the reviewed research and suggestions for future research.
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- Lindholm Dahlstrand, Åsa, et al.
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Linking Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Higher Education : A Study of Swedish Schools of Entrepreneurship
- 2010
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Ingår i: New Technology-Based Firms in the New Millennium. - Bradford, England : Emerald Group Publishing Limited. - 978-0-85724-373-7 ; s. 35-50
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt)abstract
- This paper analyzes entrepreneurship students setting up new firms. It includes a comparison of firms set up by graduates from formal schools of entrepreneurship with graduates from an innovator-entrepreneur program. Based on an empirical sample of almost 300 former entrepreneurship students, the results indicate that an entrepreneurship education influences the entrepreneurial behaviour of students. Especially students who choose to participate in a formal school of entrepreneurship seem to benefit from what they have learnt in order to exploit opportunities and create new firms. The results have implications for universities teaching entrepreneurship, incubator managers, and different kinds of policy makers.
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- Tell, Joakim
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Designing management training using a learning network approach
- 2011
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Ingår i: Research on Technology, Innovation and Marketing Management 2009‐2011 : Introducing the Research Area of Innovation Science. - Halmstad : Högskolan i Halmstad. - 978‐91‐975075‐1‐6 ; s. 103-116
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt)abstract
- In academic literature there are many references to empirical research about collaborations between companies and Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) in different network constellations in order to create change and development. However, when reading about all these different collaborations, it becomes obvious that the organising principles and under which conditions networks are effective to use as a development method are not clearly identified. In order to understand this complex area in a better way, I propose that researchers first need to understand the day‐to‐day work of managers and the issues they are confronted with in order to use a network approach as a transformation process that enables learning, in order to design a HEI‐based management training programme that supports action and therefore enables change. Another point of departure in this article is that, when using a learning network approach to design a management training programme, it is important to communicate and make different dimensions of learning very clear. Traditionally, it is often the cognitive (know how) and the social knowledge (know who) that is in focus when using a network perspective to work with management development. What I want to draw attention to in this article is that the psychodynamic knowledge (know myself), which creates self‐confidence and the courage/motivation to work with and try out new ideas, is important if change is to be reached. Also, this will create learning, not only at an individual level, but also at an organisational level, when knowledge is made clear through action (trial and error).
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