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Hemel, Stefan Paul Dominik(Cranfield UniversitySOM, 2017-04)
Organizational search is an inherent part of innovation and enables the creation of new
knowledge combinations. It precedes the selection and implementation stages of the
innovation management process, which is often ...
The scholastic view of customer engagement is that it is a critical metric, albeit within
the academic world there is a debate as to whether this critical metric is best represented
experientially or behaviourally. The ...
Companies increasingly collaborate with external stakeholders to deliver sustainability-
oriented innovations intended to address environmental and social challenges. These
partnerships have the potential to combine the ...
Adopting management innovations is complex. A high percentage of
management innovations fail to deliver, but not enough literature explains why
this is the case. This dissertation aims to extend the understanding around ...
Expatriate career management upon returning home is both a challenge to the
individual and the employing multinationals, however, most studies took only
organisational view to explain the challenge. How international ...
This paper conducts a systematic literature review on the literature body of
performance measurement and cultural study in the context of supply chain
management with two review purposes. Firstly, this paper aims to ...
Delivery reliability is an important factor that customers consider when selecting their
suppliers. It is also an important component of manufacturing strategy. With quality
consistency now being taken for granted in ...
The centrality of the role of innovation in economic prosperity and organisational
renewal has long been recognised. Marketing success is contingent upon the adoption of
innovations in new services, new products, processes ...
This research sought to obtain a detailed understanding of the scanning behaviour of
senior managers. Prior literature that substantially informed this research was drawn
from three areas: environmental scanning, competitive ...
Collaboration is imperative in the demand chain in order to be able to
share the seamless transparent information which is one of the key principals
of demand chain organisations (Lee and Whang, 2001). It has been a ...
The objective of this study is to analyse the way in which multinational companies identify and select markets in Europe; to do
so by comparing actual practices with a simple heuristic model
which systemises some aspects ...
This study systematically reviews the literature that can constitute the foundations for the
connection of two areas that have hitherto been developed separately: analyst behaviour
and going-concern opinions. Financial ...
This dissertation employs the systematic review method to review the literature
informing the question of using performance measurement to drive strategy execution.
The narrative review outlines the location of this issue ...
Slot allocation is one of the most contentions and keenly debated topics within the air
transport industry. The issue of pricing access to airport slots, as a means of relieving
congestion, has received increased attention ...
Throughout time, comparisons have always been made between the management ms V
the public and private sectors (nowadays the voluntary sector too, is included in these
comparisons). However, the management of the defence ...
Recently, there has been increasing research into how emotion is displayed in an
organisational context, as the creation of emotional links with consumers becomes more
critical in developing strong brands. Emotion is a ...
Eleven publications, presented in two volumes, are contained in this
submission. In each case these have been written jointly with another
author. In all publications my contribution has been as an equal co-author at
all ...
Mobile robot systems are an automation solution in warehouses that make order fulfilment agile, flexible, and scalable to cope with customer orders' increasing volumes and complexities. Compared with manual operations, ...
The circular economy (CE) aims to create economic and environmental benefits, by keeping products and materials at highest utility and value through long-lasting design, repair, reuse, refurbishment, and recycling. CE ...
This thesis sets out to develop and apply a framework for
the analysis of strategic group conversations. Through an
exploration of existing research and literature in the areas of
conversation and strategy, four key ...