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- Bäckström, Lars, et al.
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Trusting Relationships and Personal Acquaintance: Implications for Business Friendships
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Ingår i: Journal of General Management. - : SAGE Publications. - 0306-3070 .- 1759-6106. ; 34:3, s. 37-55
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Friendship is very often a component of business relationships. Organisations frequently have relationships with their suppliers, customers and collaborators that could be described as 'friendly'. However, there is little comparative evidence concerning the extent to which business friendships resemble true social friendships. This article illustrates some differences that may exist between social and business friendships, with particular reference to the extent that interpersonal relationships are trusting, and are based on the nature of personal acquaintance. This means that managers need to understand the differences between business and personal friendships and adjust the type of interactions they, and those who report to them. have with customers, suppliers, collaborators, and the like.
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- Löfsten, Hans, 1963
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From practice to structures: The link between project-level knowledge creation and firm-level systematic information structures
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Ingår i: Journal of General Management. - : SAGE Publications. - 0306-3070 .- 1759-6106. ; 42:1, s. 79-100
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper addresses the important topic of how project-level processes of knowledge creation result in firm-level routines for information storage and knowledge dissemination. Using data from 99 Swedish medium-sized technology firms pursuing R&D and product innovation activities, the study finds that project-level knowledge creation is significantly linked to firm-level routines for knowledge storage and dissemination. Building on the established SECI (Socialisation, Externalisation, Combination, and Internalisation) model, the study shows that project-level knowledge creation processes and firm-level knowledge dissemination routines are closely related though conceptually distinct. Moreover, while studies on the SECI model have implicitly assumed that all four knowledge-creation modes are equally important, this study's findings indicate that modes related to tacit knowledge creation (i.e. socialisation) are related to firm-level knowledge routines more closely than are modes related to explicit knowledge creation. These findings offer important contributions to the literature on knowledge creation in firms and helpful guidance for managers seeking to systematise information.
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- Mahmud, M. A. Parvez, et al.
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A contingency theory perspective of environmental management: Empirical evidence from entrepreneurial firms
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Ingår i: Journal of General Management. - : Sage. - 1759-6106 .- 0306-3070. ; 47:1, s. 3-17
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article examines the roles of organizational structure of decision-making and external pressure in determining the practice of environmental management. Using contingency theory, this study argues that having a decentralized structure, entrepreneurial firms are able to adapt to external pressure while implementing environmental management. The data were drawn from 106 small and medium-sized firms in the United Kingdom. The study found that a decentralized structure is positively associated with the practice of environmental management while external pressure from global awareness and social relationships has less impact on firms' environmental management. Interestingly, the impact of decentralized structure on environmental management is strengthened in the context of high level of technological dynamic. Overall, the findings of the study have provided some recommendations to theory and practice of environmental management especially in the context of entrepreneurial firms.
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- Opoku, Robert Ankomah, et al.
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Online communication of brand personality : a study of MBA programs of top business schools
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Ingår i: Journal of General Management. - : SAGE Publications. - 0306-3070 .- 1759-6106. ; 35:1, s. 47-64
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Brand personality has often been considered from the perspective of products, corporate brands or countries, but rarely among service offerings. Moreover, there remains the consideration of how these entities are communicated online. This article explores the brand personality dimensions that business schools communicate and whether they differ in putting across clear and distinctive brand personalities in cyberspace. Three clusters from the Financial Times' top 100 full-time global MBA programs in 2005 are used to undertake a combination of computerised content and correspondence analyses. The content analysis was structured using Aaker's five-dimensional framework whilst the positioning maps were produced by examining the data using correspondence analysis. Results indicate that some schools have clear brand personalities while others fail to communicate their brand personalities in a distinct way. This study also illustrates a powerful, but simple and relatively inexpensive way for organisations and brand researchers to study the brand personalities actually being communicated.
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- Page, Michael J., et al.
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Positioning the executive MBA product : Let’s not forget the requirements of the corporate market?
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Ingår i: Journal of General Management. - : SAGE Publications. - 0306-3070 .- 1759-6106. ; 30:1, s. 1-16
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The executive MBA qualification is an alternative to either a full time or part time study for postgraduate management qualification. The providers face a dilemma in positioning their offerings, as they know that the two consistent groups, managers and students, and organizations as sponsors could have different agendas in pursuing, using and funding the EMBA Read more: http://www.faqs.org/abstracts/Business-general/Positioning-the-executive-MBA-product-Lets-not-forget-the-requirements-of-the-corporate-market.html#ixzz1HyQIdLBM
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- Vigar-Ellis, Debbie
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Consumer Knowledge: A New Basis for Segmentation?
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- What consumers know about a product affects many aspects of their behaviour and is particularly important for marketers to understand when it comes to information-intensive products. The purpose of this paper is to understand the components and antecedents of consumer knowledge of wine, an information-intensive product, and to investigate consumer knowledge as a potential basis for wine market segmentation and targeting. A survey using the MTurk platform found that consumers differ in their levels and types of knowledge. A new and useful basis for segmenting the wine market is proposed which may have use for other information-intensive product markets.
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- Vigar-Ellis, Debbie, et al.
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The Effect of Wine Knowledge Type on Variety Seeking in Wine Purchasing
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- With wine being a prolific, but complex and information-intensive product, it is important for marketers to understand the behaviors and characteristics of different wine market segments, in order to better target their marketing strategies to these different segments’ needs. Yet little is known about how the characteristics of consumers’ subjective and objective knowledge of wine impact their variety seeking purchasing behavior. Our results show that wine knowledge types are a significant predictor of variety seeking purchasing behavior of wine. This suggests that marketers should adapt their segmentation, targeting and channel strategies to individual knowledge types to be more successful.
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- Żukowicka-Surma, Anna, Postdoktor, 1979-, et al.
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Organisational support for healthcare innovation in hospitals : Towards a commitment framework
- 2022
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Ingår i: Journal of General Management. - London : Sage Publications. - 0306-3070 .- 1759-6106. ; 48:4, SI, s. 337-395
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The article investigates organisational drivers and restrainers of innovation in hospitals on the background of different institutional logics. It presents evidence from a multiple case study in Polish hospitals, which reveals different dynamics on the micro-, meso- and macro-level of organisations in enabling and implementing new procedures and technologies. In particular, the study documents an ambiguous influence of medical professionalism as a specific logic in the healthcare sector, which can affect innovation positively as well as negatively. The article therefore proposes a managerial framework based in innovation action commitment to control the effects of professionalism in healthcare. © The Author(s) 2022.
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