The purpose of this paper is to examine the relationship between innovativeness and export in Croatian companies. The study involved 303 Croatian export companies from the manufacturing industry and ...the information and communication technology sector. The survey was conducted using the survey method over the last three months of 2016. For this purpose, Spearman rank correlation, the Kruskal-Wallis ANOVA test and canonical analysis were used. The results show that there is a positive relationship between innovativeness and export in Croatian companies. The results offer theoretical and managerial implications. This research has practical implications for Croatian companies to increase their efficiency and innovativeness. Value is reflected in the relationship between innovativeness and export and there is an important research gap in the literature on international trade, entrepreneurship and management. In the context of this research, it is likely that innovativeness influences a companys export activities, which can be positively reflected in creating and maintaining their competitive advantage on the international market.
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The paper addresses the issue of strategic misconceptions in creating a national framework for an industry of strategic importance. In this paper, the shipbuilding industry was chosen as a model for ...analysing the strategic adjustments of decision makers in business entities and on national level before EU accession and its consequences on the national economy as a whole. The main hypothesis of the paper is that shipbuilding has a broad extent of externalities in the national economy, and therefore, by leading it properly, especially in times of high unemployment and low level of GDP growth, it can act as an important generator of economic growth. The findings are put into the context of the Croatian government shipbuilding development strategy, EU recommendations for the development of shipbuilding industry and their impact on the financial, organizational and managerial issues in Croatian shipyards.
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This article contributes to the research on comparative human resource management by providing a model of the Russian business system and its effect on human resource management practices at Russian ...subsidiaries of Western multinational companies. Whitley's approach was adopted to illustrate the links between institutional arenas, business systems, and human resource management practices. The empirical part is based on interviews with senior human resources managers of Western multinational companies operating in Russia. The findings provide insight into the interaction between the national business system and human resource management practices in Russia.
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The article deals with the development of entrepreneurship in the Russian regions. Firstly, the state of both Russian entrepreneurship, in general, and small and medium-sized business in particular ...is not satisfactory. Secondly, the measures implemented by the state in the field of entrepreneurship development are not sufficiently effective. To the authors’ opinion, these two facts are due, among other things, to a lack of a holistic understanding of what constitutes an institution of entrepreneurship in a spatial context. The authors propose to consider the development of regional entrepreneurship using the system approach with the scope to the regional business system. Within the proposed authors’ approach, resources, economic agents and institutions are considered as the main elements of this system. The authors substantiate that there are institutional configurations, and not simple institutions, which determine the parameters of interaction between the elements of the regional enterprise system. These elements can contribute to the enterprise processes in the territory or block them. We assume that even a region with an essential resource of business potential is not able to realize it completely until it develops an effective institutional configuration of the regional business system. In order to investigate certain parameters of the institutional configuration of the regional business system, we propose a methodology for assessing the institutional loyalty of business entities and testing this technique on the example of eighty-four constituent entities of the Russian Federation. We have concluded that, in a large part of the Russian regions, a successful implementation of strategy for the development of small and medium-sized businesses will require the transformation of the regional enterprise system on the basis of reengineering. It involves a radical redesigning the entire system, ensuring the entrepreneurial processes in a territory. The authors prove that the basis for reengineering should be the institutional reconfiguration of the regional business system. The results of the research can be used to identify systemic problems that impede the development of entrepreneurship in the Russian regions and to develop more effective measures to address these problems.
The SPIS methodology provides methods and techniques of developing an information system (IS) that would correspond with the requirements of an organization. The result of its application is the ...strategic plan of IS development that would meet the future needs. As is the case in the methodology of the strategic planning in general, the primary drawback to the strategic planning of the information system is the lack of efficient control of implementation of the strategic plan, and this is precisely what this research paper deals with. One of the procedures in the measuring of results of an organization, which is also recommended by the SPIS, is the Balanced Scorecard methodology (BSC). However, the BSC concept which the classic SPIS methodology recommends as suitable for the evaluation of performance of the information technology (IT) on the business system and the performance of that new business system, does not take into account the constraint that may lead to non-implementation of the planned activities. Furthermore, the BSC has been criticised for the oversimplified modelling of the cause-consequence relations that do not take into account the time delay and the feedback.This paper provides results of the research that resulted in identification of two types of constraints that need to be included when determining the optimal IS/IT strategy. Within the context of the system dynamics (SD) approach, the broadening of the problem with the analysis of the strategy implementation dynamics results in the new practical knowledge about the control over the time-dependant values and, consequently, with a proposal that would eliminate the reasons for the abovementioned criticism.
The Oxford Handbook of Business and Government analyses the relationship between business and government from a number of different disciplinary perspectives. Business is one of the major power ...centres in modern society. The state seeks to check and channel that power so as to serve broader public policy objectives. However, if the way in which business is governed is ineffective or over burdensome, it may become more difficult to achieve desired goals, such as economic growth or higher levels of employment. In a period of international economic crisis, the study of how business and government relate to each other in different countries is of more central importance than ever. The authors are all authorities on the current state of knowledge of business-government relations. Part One of the book provides an introduction to the ways in which five different disciplines have approached the study of business and government. Part Two, on the firm and the state, looks at how these entities interact in different settings, emphasising such phenomena as the global firm and varieties of capitalism. Part Three examines how business interacts with government in different parts of the world, including the United States, the EU, China, Japan and South America. Part Four reviews changing patterns of market governance through a unifying theme of the role of regulation. Business-government relations can play out in divergent ways in different policy, and Part Five examines the contrasts between different key arenas such as competition policy, trade policy, training policy and environmental policy. The book also points to ways in which this work might be developed in the future, e.g. through a political theory of the firm.
Over the last decade, Chinese authorities have pressed foreign multinational companies to recognize official trade unions. Employing cross-classified multilevel modeling on a large data set (10,108 ...foreign-owned firms cross-embedded in 32 home countries and 755 Chinese cities), this study examines the antecedents of the varied positions of foreign-owned firms toward union recognition around the midpoint of the first decade of the 2000s—a time when the government-led union recognition campaign in China was gaining strength. Drawing on a dual institutional pressure perspective, the authors theorize that the likelihood that a foreign-owned firm will recognize a union depends on both the industrial relations system in the home country and the location of its operations in the host country. Specifically, a foreign-owned firm is more likely to recognize unions if it originated from a nation where the legitimacy of collective representation is high and if it is located in a Chinese city where union recognition is prevalent among Chinese-owned firms.
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Enhancing integration and innovation in construction Dulaimi, Mohammed Fadhil; Y.Ling, Florence Y.; Ofori, George ...
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The poor performance of Singapore's construction industry,like its counterparts in other countries, has been highlighted in many studies. The most recent study in Singapore, 'Re-inventing ...Construction', criticized the performance of the industry and identified fragmentation and segregation of design and construction activities as the main barriers to improved investment and development. The objective of the paper is to identify the activities and initiatives that will motivate and enable the Singapore construction industry to achieve both greater levels of integration and increase the volume of R&D and innovation activities. An industry survey, workshop and interviews identified six factors. The main theme underlying them is the need for the creation of improved business and market conditions that demand further integration and greater innovation effort to meet customer demands and expectations.
De nombreuses études ont mis en lumière les performances médiocres de l'industrie de la construction à Singapour et dans d'autres pays. L'étude la plus récente sur Singapour, intitulée "Re-inventing Construction", critiquait les performances de cette industrie et estimait que les principaux obstacles à l'amélioration des investissements et du développement étaient la fragmentation et la ségrégation des activités de conception et de construction. L'objectif de cet article est de recenser les activités et les initiatives qui motiveront l'industrie du bâtiment de Singapour et lui permettront de parvenir à une meilleure intégration et à une augmentation des activités de recherche et développement et d'innovation. Une analyse de cette industrie, un atelier et des interviews ont permis de dégager six facteurs. Le thème principal sous-jacent est la nécessité de créer de meilleures conditions pour les entreprises et le commerce, ce qui implique une meilleure intégration et un plus gros effort d'innovation pour répondre aux demandes et aux attentes de la clientèle.
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The German business system has been regarded as a particularly tightly coupled system, with embeddedness of even multinational companies (MNCs) in their home base as particularly deep. A ...study of the impact of companies' changing internationalization, if not globalization, strategies is therefore especially suited to test competing claims about their effects on the German business system. Are we experiencing an erosion of this system, an adaptation in a largely path‐dependent way, or even a greater specialization and stronger crystallization of the German business system?
To investigate these questions, the paper examines a small number of German MNCs in their domestic and international context. More particularly, the work focuses on whether and how their emergent globalization activities affect the reproduction or erosion of the three institutional complexes which shape the factors of production: the financial system; the innovation system; and the industrial relations system. The paper concludes that a new type of transformation – hybridization – is emerging. It is regarded as a consequence of German companies' growing integration into a global economic system.
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