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Multicultural project teams and their management (2009)
Journal Article

Organisations are becoming more and more diverse due to the increasing globalisation of business operations. Multicultural project teams can potentially assist in better decision making and bring in greater creativity and innovation. Additionally, th... Read More about Multicultural project teams and their management.

Information Systems Innovations Adoption and Diffusion Among SMEs: Current Status and Future Prospects (2009)
Journal Article

The attention of software vendors has moved recently to Small to Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) offering them a vast range of Information Systems’ (IS) innovations including enterprise systems (ES), which were formerly adopted by large firms only. A... Read More about Information Systems Innovations Adoption and Diffusion Among SMEs: Current Status and Future Prospects.

OTRI: agenda de investigacion (2008)
Journal Article

The present paper presents different lines of work in order to extend the current empirical research about the role of the technology transfer offices (TTO). Those lines of research come from the new advances in the micro economic analysis of TTOs an... Read More about OTRI: agenda de investigacion.

What makes good governance?: An interview with Richard Lapthorne, Chairman, Cable and Wireless plc (2008)
Journal Article

© 2008, © Emerald Group Publishing Limited. Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to interview Richard Lapthorne, Chairman, Cable and Wireless plc. Design/methodology/approach – The paper takes the form of an interview. Findings – Richard Lapthorne... Read More about What makes good governance?: An interview with Richard Lapthorne, Chairman, Cable and Wireless plc.

Social capital and university-industry-government networks in offshore outsourcing - The case of India (2008)
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This paper argues that the recent success that India has enjoyed in the domain of outsourcing of services can be explained through the triple helix paradigm of university-industry-government networks albeit in a manner that does not conform strictly... Read More about Social capital and university-industry-government networks in offshore outsourcing - The case of India.

The importance of knowledge management for ERP systems (2008)
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Enterprise resource planning (ERP) software provides a coherent integrated electronic business management environment, frequently controlling all logistics and billing for an enterprise. Many companies are now reliant upon these systems for their dai... Read More about The importance of knowledge management for ERP systems.

Where do we fit in the swings and roundabouts of strategy? (2008)
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© 2008, © Emerald Group Publishing Limited. Purpose – The purpose of the paper is to examine and analyze the development of strategic management as a field of inquiry. Design/methodology/approach – The paper relies on secondary-source analysis. Findi... Read More about Where do we fit in the swings and roundabouts of strategy?.

Leadership on an industrial journey: An interview with Sir John Parker, Chairman of the National Grid (2008)
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© 2008, © Emerald Group Publishing Limited. Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to interview Sir John Parker, Chairman of the National Grid. Design/methodology/approach – The paper takes the form of an interview. Findings – Sir John Parker shares... Read More about Leadership on an industrial journey: An interview with Sir John Parker, Chairman of the National Grid.

Enhancing post-acquisition organisational performance: The role of the top management team (2008)
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Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to address the link between the effectiveness of the top management team (TMT) and post-acquisition organisational performance. Design/methodology/approach - The paper undertakes a literature review, identifies... Read More about Enhancing post-acquisition organisational performance: The role of the top management team.

The triple helix strategy for universities in developing countries: The experiences in Malaysia and Algeria (2008)
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This article addresses issues relating to the policy shift in developing countries aimed at making universities increasingly relevant to the socio-economic milieu by promoting the 'triple helix culture' as a sustainable basis for innovation and techn... Read More about The triple helix strategy for universities in developing countries: The experiences in Malaysia and Algeria.

Identifying high technology small firms: A sectoral analysis (2008)
Journal Article

This study explores the use of existing categorizations in classifying high and low technology firms such as the standard industrial classification (SIC). Such classifications tend to be applied to firms in a blanket fashion rather than on a systemat... Read More about Identifying high technology small firms: A sectoral analysis.

Revisiting knowledge warehousing: Theoretical foundations (2008)
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Ever since the late 1990s, different research communities have used the term 'knowledge warehousing' to refer to several types of IT-based tools. An extensive review of the literature on this topic revealed that existing approaches to knowledge wareh... Read More about Revisiting knowledge warehousing: Theoretical foundations.

Toward a framework to assist servitization strategy implementation (2008)
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Advice for manufacturing companies to increase their attention to opportunities downstream of production had grown loud by the mid 1990s. Accompanying this advice lay warnings of generic, implementation issues to be addressed in the journey downstrea... Read More about Toward a framework to assist servitization strategy implementation.

Infantilized adults or confident consumers? Enterprise discourse in the UK retail banking industry (2008)
Journal Article

In this paper we examine the implications of enterprise discourse within the context of a culture of consumption. Drawing on empirical work on the UK retail banking industry we demonstrate how retail banking in the UK is central to constructing 'conf... Read More about Infantilized adults or confident consumers? Enterprise discourse in the UK retail banking industry.

Counterfactual history, management and organizations: Reflections and new directions (2008)
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This article reflects on the papers published in the Symposium on 'Counterfactual History in Management and Organizations'. After describing the background to the symposium we review some important themes in the multidisciplinary domain of counterfac... Read More about Counterfactual history, management and organizations: Reflections and new directions.

The other side of projects: the case for critical project studies (2008)
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© 2008, © Emerald Group Publishing Limited. Purpose – The purpose of this research note is to articulate the limitations that project management (PM) currently faces by outlining the PM literature’s frequent neglect of political, social and ethical d... Read More about The other side of projects: the case for critical project studies.

The reflexive consumer (2008)
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Drawing on a detailed reading of the work of Peppers and Rogers (1993, 1997, 2004, 2005), this paper argues that their work offers an emblematic problematization of traditional mass marketing, which articulates a new mentality of marketing — collabor... Read More about The reflexive consumer.

Managing knowlege resources for sustainable competitive advantage (2008)
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Building on previous research which showed that the loss of staff could have a significance impact on
the out-turn performance of a project; this work seeks to explore the relationship between knowledge
management and human resource management. To... Read More about Managing knowlege resources for sustainable competitive advantage.

A post-mortem evaluation of an IT project: a case study of a process enhancement IT-project in a maintenance, repair and overhaul company (2008)
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The present work represents a post mortem evaluation of an SAP-IT project. It focuses on critical success factors
(CSF) in order to establish an appropriate guideline for the project evaluation.
A review of contemporary project management literatur... Read More about A post-mortem evaluation of an IT project: a case study of a process enhancement IT-project in a maintenance, repair and overhaul company.

Developing an enterprise wide knowledge warehouse: challenge of optimal designs in the media industry (2008)
Journal Article

It has been common practice among organisations to develop standard operating procedures to gain advantages like standardisation, ensure continuity, and deal with contingency needs. Over time, processual perspectives of activity within organisations... Read More about Developing an enterprise wide knowledge warehouse: challenge of optimal designs in the media industry.