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Triads Of Interorganisational Conflict: Investigating Asymmetries, Disputes, And Tensions, Li Hao Edson Kieu
Triads Of Interorganisational Conflict: Investigating Asymmetries, Disputes, And Tensions, Li Hao Edson Kieu
Dissertations and Theses Collection (Open Access)
Interorganisational relations are critical resources that are enablers for organisations to achieve competitive advantage. Collaborative ties provide organisations access to new markets, distribution channels, information, and present opportunities to develop or enhance capabilities and competencies. However, interorganisational ties are dynamic and susceptible to relational tensions among collaborative, coordinative, and competitive elements. As such, primarily focusing on collaborative elements between organisations presents an incomplete representation. Social relations involve elements of collaboration and conflict that are not antithetical but dialectical determinants of one another. Despite these conjectures of dialectical tensions, the nature of interorganisational conflict remains elusive. Hence, this dissertation is devoted …
Critical Success Factors Research Based On The Whole Process Practice Of Guangxi Laibin B Electricity Power Plant Bot Project, Liujiang Feng
Critical Success Factors Research Based On The Whole Process Practice Of Guangxi Laibin B Electricity Power Plant Bot Project, Liujiang Feng
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Given the lack of research on the critical success factors of the whole process of BOT projects, this paper conducts research on the BOT projects in Fujian Meizhou Bay, Guangdong Shajiao, and Guangxi Laibin, which applies the critical success factor (CSF) model analysis, and uses scientific questionnaire scoring evaluation to determine the success or failure of the BOT projects. The research results of the paper are in line with the local governments’ summaries and evaluation of the power plants after the end of the projects. This paper uses a mixed research method combining "expert argument + questionnaire + case analysis" …
Entrepreneurial Intention Amongst Scientists And Their Transition To Roles In Research Based Startups, Krishna Kumar Nallur
Entrepreneurial Intention Amongst Scientists And Their Transition To Roles In Research Based Startups, Krishna Kumar Nallur
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The involvement of scientist and their transition to Research based Startup’s (RBSU’s) has been identified as a key factor in their success. This study was undertaken to better understand this transition of the scientist into the RBSU. It followed a two-step process of interviewing 28 researchers, researcher - entrepreneurs and researcher - startup employees followed by a survey with 104 individuals with similar backgrounds in research, entrepreneurship and as startup employees. the survey sought to understand the effects of entrepreneurial training / internships, access to entrepreneurs (network) and the role of events on these individuals and the likelihood of their …
Innovative Boards: Exploring The Curvilinear Relationship Of Firm Innovation With Information Diversity, Dynamic Capability Diversity And Governance Diversity Of The Board Of Directors, And Understanding The Critical Moderating Effect Of Board Size On This Relationship, Ajay Makhija
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The role and effectiveness of Board of directors in fostering innovation is an area of keen interest for both academics and professionals. Heterogeneity research suggests that diverse groups consider a broader range of perspectives and hence are able to foster creativity and drive innovation. The focus of most prior research on board diversity has largely been on gender, and the outcomes have been generally inconclusive. In addition, previous research efforts have focused on the RBV (Resource based view) in terms of the board role and also in explaining the diversity relationship with innovation. This study extends the diversity, governance and …
Learning And Adaptation Under Uncertainty And Ambiguity, Lei Zheng
Learning And Adaptation Under Uncertainty And Ambiguity, Lei Zheng
Dissertations and Theses Collection (Open Access)
The first essay is about how high and moderate aspiration levels compare in terms of affecting the decision making and reinforcement learning in an uncertain environment. After developing a thought experiment and a computational model, I used lab experiments to test the model’s predictions: a high (moderate) aspiration level reduces (increases) feedback ambiguity about the relative attractiveness of different options, thus increases the exploitation (exploration) tendency of the decision maker. The behavioural difference suggests that high aspirations lead to better performance in stable environments, but worse performance after disruptive shocks. The second essay investigates whether organizations should commit more (or …
Essays On Corporate Social Responsibility And Strategic Leadership, Li Tong
Essays On Corporate Social Responsibility And Strategic Leadership, Li Tong
Dissertations and Theses Collection (Open Access)
This dissertation two issues related to business ethics: how corporate social responsibility (CSR) affects the value creation in an acquisition and how corporate decoupling behaviors are driven by the CEO narcissism, consisting of two essays. The first essay examines how target corporate social responsibility affects the economic gains for acquirers, as reflected in market reaction to acquisition announcement, from two distinct perspectives: stakeholder preservation versus stakeholder appropriation. The stakeholder preservation perspective suggests that positive market reaction to an acquisition stems from potential new value creation by honoring implicit contracts and maintaining good relationships with target stakeholders. By contrast, the stakeholder …
How Does Status Affect Performance And Learning From Failure? Evidence From Online Communities, Tengjian Zou
How Does Status Affect Performance And Learning From Failure? Evidence From Online Communities, Tengjian Zou
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This dissertation is composed of two essays. In the first essay, I investigate the factors that can alleviate the detrimental effect of hierarchy on team performance. I first show that hierarchy negatively impacts team performance, which is consistent with recent meta-analytic evidence. One mechanism that drives this negative effect is that hierarchy prevents low-ranking members from voicing their potentially valuable insights. Then I propose that team familiarity is one factor that can encourage low-ranking team members to speak up. I contend that team familiarity can be established either by team members’ prior experience in working with one another or can …
New Perspectives On M&A Research, Zhefei Li
New Perspectives On M&A Research, Zhefei Li
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Corporate acquisition is among the most important strategic tools wielded by managers to achieve competitive advantage. Acquisition may create strategic values for the acquirer by gaining market power through industry consolidation, diversifying into rapidly growing industries, entering into emerging markets, and most importantly by combining unique valuable resources from acquirer and target. Despite the many appealing aspects of the motive for acquisition, however, meta-analytical studies suggest that though highly beneficial for the target firm’s shareholders, acquisition on average destroys acquirer shareholder values. to understand the determinants of acquisition performance success, it becomes imperative to study the antecedents as well as …
Research On Extreme Poverty Governance Based On Social Network Analysis, Wenyong Lei
Research On Extreme Poverty Governance Based On Social Network Analysis, Wenyong Lei
Dissertations and Theses Collection (Open Access)
In this dissertation, the author goes inside some of China's most remote and poorest villages and tries to reveal the determinants, correlates and strategies to address the gap of existing poverty governance system and the complexity and diversity of poor population. He offers in-depth insights into what the poor people think about poverty with two major indicators, identifies evidence on the feasibility of duel-network embedding strategy to reduce poverty, and explains how diverse groups hit by extreme poverty could develop entrepreneurship relationship with diversified market and available social economic resources. Drawing on examples that take place in Xide County, a …
The Business Of Accelerating The Acceleration Of Startups, David Wai Lun Ng
The Business Of Accelerating The Acceleration Of Startups, David Wai Lun Ng
Dissertations and Theses Collection (Open Access)
The cross-domain and cross-border aspects of the Business Accelerator sector has resulted in an ecosystem that has seen actors in the space jostle for clear and competitive positioning. The evolution of Business Accelerators as a business entity, seeking to supply positive interventions to the journey of start-ups, is common to all growth and innovation orientated ecosystems. The ability for Business Accelerator managers to demonstrably impact their subject acceleratees positively has been an under-researched area. Against this background is the rising volume of capital being channeled into funding startups due to the widespread drive for innovation led growth which is increasingly …
Identifying The Competencies Of Middle Managers Leading Successful Strategy Implementation, Zafar Abdulmajid Momin
Identifying The Competencies Of Middle Managers Leading Successful Strategy Implementation, Zafar Abdulmajid Momin
Dissertations and Theses Collection (Open Access)
How does one successfully implement strategy? Persistent and alarmingly high failure rates of strategy implementation still prevail due to the myriad variables and complexities associated with execution, the brunt of which typically falls to middle management. Unfortunately, most organizations do not exercise sufficient rigor in the process and criteria to select the right middle managers for executing strategy, despite middle managers having a substantial impact on outcomes. Business leaders lack the necessary tools and frameworks for competency assessment to support their decision-making. This research seeks to provide evidence that selection of the right middle managers is more likely to lead …
Factors Driving Financial Inclusion And Financial Performance In Fintech New Ventures: An Empirical Study, Miguel Angel Soriano
Factors Driving Financial Inclusion And Financial Performance In Fintech New Ventures: An Empirical Study, Miguel Angel Soriano
Dissertations and Theses Collection (Open Access)
Financial inclusion, or providing access to and active use of affordable financial products to the 2 billion unbanked adults globally, can facilitate individual prosperity, reduce poverty and increase economic development. Digital technologies such as mobile phones, cloud computing, data analytics and blockchain are one of the biggest enablers of financial inclusion by making it economically possible to serve these individuals. This dissertation examined the role of digital technologies in financial inclusion from the perspective of new financial technology (Fintech) ventures serving the unbanked and underbanked. Supported by strategy management theories, I identified key factors that impact the success of these …
Essays On Managing Intuition For Strategic Option Generation, Tejpavan Singh Gandhok
Essays On Managing Intuition For Strategic Option Generation, Tejpavan Singh Gandhok
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This dissertation comprises of two essays. The first essay seeks to examine the issue of 'slow' (i.e. gestation periods over hours, weeks and months) forms of intuition and their complex interactions with analytic thinking, especially in the context of breakthrough ideation/ complex problem solving. This exploratory study with qualitative observations with a small set of experienced practitioners supports the sparse academic literature in this area that managers do rely on long gestation forms of sub-conscious processing and that these forms of thinking manifest themselves in different forms with varying degrees of confidence and positive emotion/ affect (popularly referred to as …
Go Niche Or Go Home: Influence Maximization In The Presence Of Strong Opponent, Long Foong Liow
Go Niche Or Go Home: Influence Maximization In The Presence Of Strong Opponent, Long Foong Liow
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In hotly contested product categories dominated by a few powerful firms, it is quite common for weaker or late entrants to focus only on particular segments of the whole market. The rationale for such strategy is intuitive: to avoid direct confrontation with heavy-weight firms, and to concentrate in segments where these weaker firms have comparative advantages. In marketing, this is what people called “go niche or go home”. The niche-building strategy may rely on “homophily”, which implies that consumers in a particular market segment might possess certain set of attributes that cause them to appreciate certain products better (in other …