In recent time the pressure on companies from groups like governments, regular citizens and media on taking its social responsibility has increased in rapid pace. This has led to increased interest from companies all over the world about social issues and the companies’ responsibility for these issues.In the more competitive environment were companies act today …
Knowledge management is evolving from being successful on small companies to the entire society. The era of information technology and the speed the changes take place, imply a profound transformation from tactic to strategic level, where decision-makers can, and must do a whole society review. Knowledge management is the right tool for reforming the society. …
This paper is the first part of a wide-ranging study of the role of intellectual property in the software industry. The project focuses on the software industry because of the importance of that industry to the modern economy, because of the importance of innovation to that industry, and because of the well-known difficulties of accommodating …
In many countries, employers usually complain that wages and labour costs are too high. Using a representative establishment data set for Germany, we show that more than 40 percent of plants covered by collective agreements pay wages above the level stipulated in the agreement, which gives rise to a wage cushion between the levels of actual …
Competition is the seedbed of the entrepreneurial spirit and the driving force of modem economies. The role of the entrepreneur in economic development is very important… In this paper the literature on entrepreneurship is summarised from the perspective of geographical seedbed conditions and network constellations. We argue that urban areas offer favourable incubator conditions for …
The literature of information planning depicts a rational, proactive, formalistic and logical approach to information technology strategy formulation. However, empirical studies have revealed serious problems with such an approach reporting, instead, that the success of IT strategy is often due to the role of IT champions… In this paper we provide a critique of the …
Brand strategy is a useful way to strengthen competitive competence of products. However, the researches on how to implement a successful brand strategy using public relations were rarely found in the existing literature.The main purpose with my dissertation is to investigate the relationship between public relations and brand strategy…. Contents Chapter 1 Introduction 1.1 Background …
Quality management can be used to support strategically the management of innovation. Tools in strategic quality management can be useful in: creating the organizational conditions in which innovations can be developed; supervising and initiating innovation processes; producing innovation content; and implementing innovations in the primary processes of the organization… This conclusion is based on the …
This paper focuses on which characteristics managers take into account when they choose and evaluate business partners, and the interrelationship between the constructs trust, control and information. The paper is based on a survey which includes 101 small and middle-sized manufacturing companies in Denmark… The results show that managers frequently express that trust is an …
The paper investigates cross-country differences in technology in a large sample of developed and developing economies over the 1990s. The empirical analysis indicates the existence of three technology clubs with markedly different levels of technological development: advanced, followers and marginalized countries… The technology clubs also differ with respect to their dynamics over the 1990s. While …