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Threat-Balancing In Vendor Transition, Cecil Eng Huang Chua, Wee-Kiat Lim, Siew Kien Sia, Christina Soh

CCX Research

While many outsourcing contracts are expiring, and vendor transition is becoming an increasing concern, little research helps organizations manage vendor transition. This paper explores vendor transition across two case sites. In one case, the outgoing vendor cooperated with the client which resulted in the client distancing itself from interactions between vendors. In the second case, the outgoing vendor was openly hostile, with the result that the client allied with the incoming vendor to manage vendor transition. These findings mirror expectations from balance of threat theory, a political science theory about interactions between nations. Balance of threat theory predicts that outgoing …

Taxonomy Of Knowedge Management Research In Hospitality And Tourism, Henner Nehles

UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones

The hospitality industry is operating in an ever increasing knowledge-based economy, where hotels have to increase customer satisfaction and retention levels, lower employees turnover rates and operating expenses, maximize profits and strive to gain a sustainable competitive advantage. “Knowledge management caters to the critical issues of organizational adaptation, survival, and competence in the face of increasingly discontinuous environmental change. Essentially, it embodies organizational processes that seek synergistic combinations of data and information processing capacity of information technologies, and the creative and innovative capacity of human beings” (Civi, 2000, p.166). Knowledge Management (KM) is not a new concept. It has its …

Organizational Agility, James D. Sterling

Business and Information Technology Faculty Research & Creative Works

No abstract provided.

An Analysis Of Small Business Patents By Industry And Firm Size, Anthony Breitzman, Diana Hicks

College of Science & Mathematics Departmental Research

No abstract provided.

Milestone Payments Or Royalties? Contract Design For R&D Licensing, Pascale Crama, Bert De Reyck, Zeger Degraeve

Research Collection Lee Kong Chian School Of Business

We study how innovators can optimally design licensing contracts when there is incomplete information on the licensee's valuation of the innovation, and limited control over the licensee's development efforts. A licensing contract typically contains an up-front payment, milestone payments at successful completion of a project phase, and royalties on sales. We use principal-agent models to formulate the licensor's contracting problem, and we find that under adverse selection, the optimal contract structure changes with the licensee's valuation of the innovation. As the licensee's valuation increases, the licensor's optimal level of involvement in the development-directly or through royalties-should decrease. Only a risk-averse …

Entrepreneurs Are Serial Risktakers Not Gamblers, Says Phillip Phan, Knowledge@Smu

Knowledge@SMU

Entrepreneurs are not gamblers, believes Phillip Phan, management professor at Johns Hopkins University. He is also Tommie Goh visiting professor of entrepreneurship and business at the Lee Kong Chian School of Business, Singapore Management University (SMU). Phan delivered a lecture in Singapore recently about the essence of entrepreneurship, how to identify entrepreneurial opportunities, and the role of governments in supporting entrepreneurs.

Lighting Up Rural Indonesia Through Community-Owned Hydropower Projects, Knowledge@Smu

Knowledge@SMU

More than 105 million people, just under half the total population of Indonesia, are without electricity even today. 2006 Ashoka Foundation Fellow Tri Mumpuni, executive director of Indonesian NGO IBEKA (People Centred Economic and Business Institute), spoke at a forum -- organised by the Lien Centre for Social Innovation of the Singapore Management University -- about how IBEKA is helping to develop sustainable community enterprises in the energy sector.

Random Thoughts About Volume 34, 2008, And Some Insights Into Journal Production, Connie Foster

DLTS Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

States, Markets, And Gatekeepers: Public-Private Regulatory Regimes In An Era Of Economic Globalization, Christopher M. Bruner

Scholarly Works

This paper illuminates the spectrum of international economic regimes through discussion of an under-theorized regulatory structure in which traditional distinctions between state and market, public and private power, hard and soft law, and international and domestic policy realms, essentially collapse - the public-private gatekeeper.

Specifically, I examine striking similarities between global bond markets and e-commerce markets through comparison of entities regulating admission to them - the dominant credit rating agencies (Standard & Poor's and Moody's), and the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). Following anexamination of the development of these markets and the global regulatory power exercised by …

Ala Spotlight Series V.2, James D. Sterling

Business and Information Technology Faculty Research & Creative Works

No abstract provided.

Origami’S Enterprise 2.0 Solution: The Next Frontier In Computing?, Knowledge@Smu

Knowledge@SMU

James Ong, founder and CEO of technology company, Origami Frontiers, exemplifies a new generation of western educated technocrats and market-savvy entrepreneurs. After nearly two decades in the US, Ong returned to his roots in 2002, fuelled by a vision to develop innovative enterprise solutions based on emerging Web 2.0 technologies. At a research seminar organised by the School of Information Systems, Singapore Management University, Ong described how he wanted to be a part of the technology revolution in Asia.

Ua7 Ored Quarterly Newsletter, Sadiq Shah

ORED Quarterly Newsletter

Connecting Knowledge with Businesses and Society to Promote Economic Growth and to Enhance the Quality of Life

Organizational Learning Platform And New Product Development, Wee Liang Tan, So-Jin Yoo

Research Collection Lee Kong Chian School Of Business

No abstract provided.

The Research On Container Operations At Container Freight Station And Rfid Implementation, Kasarla Naga Chandra Mohan

World Maritime University Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Analysis Of Methods For Z Company To Deal With Single Hull Vlcc, Chen Ye

World Maritime University Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Research On Information Integration Of Zhoushan Port And Its External Environment, Peiyao Lu

World Maritime University Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Panel I: Earning More By Using Less: Businesses, Efficiency, And Renewable Energy, Janet Napolitano, Jim Murren, Jon Creyts, Michael Yackira, Rhone Resch

National Clean Energy Summit

Panel discussion Moderator: Randolph Townsend, Nevada State Senator

Is Family Business In Good Hands? How To Inspire The Next Generation Of Entrepreneurs, Knowledge@Smu

Knowledge@SMU

Why do some family businesses fail? Sanjay Goel, strategic management and entrepreneurship professor at the University of Minnesota Duluth, addressed some of the factors that support or inhibit the success of family businesses at a seminar on “Sustaining the Entrepreneurial Drive” organised recently by the UOB–SMU Alliance Centre of the Singapore Management University.

Labevolution: What's The Next Mutation?, James D. Sterling

Business and Information Technology Faculty Research & Creative Works

No abstract provided.

Drucker's Insights On Market Orientation And Innovation: Implications For Emerging Areas In High-Technology Marketing, Shikhar Sarin, Jakki J. Mohr

Marketing Faculty Publications and Presentations

In 1954, Drucker boldly declared that organizations have only two basic functions, marketing and innovation. While true for any organization, this insight is particularly pertinent for technology-based businesses. The complicated environment surrounding high-tech companies creates a great need for sophisticated marketing, yet these companies continue to have under-developed competencies in marketing and in understanding customer needs. In its first two sections, this essay explores Drucker’s insights with respect to two particularly salient issues for high-tech companies: developing and implementing a market orientation, and sustained break-through innovations. We review Drucker’s insights and synthesize them with the scholarly research on these issues. …

How To Stand Out In The Crowd? Innovate, Innovate, Innovate., Knowledge@Smu

Knowledge@SMU

In the world of marketing and branding, sticking out like a sore thumb is not necessarily a bad thing, advises brand innovation specialist Chandran Dharmarajan, co-founder of I-morph, a marketing innovation consultancy based in Singapore. Dharmarajan, who worked for over a decade with Unilever in India and Thailand followed by a stint with Kraft Foods Asia Pacific, spoke at a recent seminar, “Transform Your Business By Being Remarkable”, organised by the UOB-SMU Entrepreneurship Alliance Centre of the Singapore Management University.

Lien Centre’S Social Space Turns The Spotlight On Social Enterprise And Innovation, Knowledge@Smu

Knowledge@SMU

The Lien Centre of the Singapore Management University was set up in 2006 with support from the Lien Foundation to serve as a catalyst for social innovation and change in Singapore. The Centre will launch an inaugural volume, Social Space, in August 2008. Lien Centre Board Chairman, Willie Cheng, talked to Knowledge@SMU about the book, the overall aims of the centre, and his own thinking on social enterprise, innovation and entrepreneurship. Cheng was formerly country managing director for Accenture and is actively involved in the nonprofit sector in Singapore.

Ua7 Ored Quarterly Newsletter, Sadiq Shah

ORED Quarterly Newsletter

Connecting Knowledge with Businesses and Society to Promote Economic Growth and to Enhance the Quality of Life

Strategic Orientation Of High-Technology Firms In A Transitional Economy, Chung-Ming Lau, Daphne W. Yiu, Ping-Kwong Yeung, Yuan Lu

Research Collection Lee Kong Chian School Of Business

Strategic orientation is a critical factor for a firm's competitiveness in a transitional economy context but it is understudied in the current literature. This article examines the antecedents of strategic orientation from both the socio-cognitive and resource-based view perspectives. The study posits that the strategic orientations of firms in a transitional economy context are influenced by the top managers' cognitions and organizational resources. Based on a national survey of high-technology firms in China, the study finds that a stronger market-focused strategic orientation was facilitated by managerial cognitions about the future of the industry and current operation and performance of the …

Employment And Market Innovation In Chinese Business Group Affiliated Firms: The Role Of Group Control Systems, Robert E. White, Robert E. Hoskisson, Daphne W. Yiu, Garry D. Bruton

Research Collection Lee Kong Chian School Of Business

Prior research has suggested a number of potential benefits to firm membership in business groups. These benefits include availability of capital and other resources not readily accessible in an open market, the facilitation of entrepreneurship, plus information and risk sharing advantages. We suggest that another important benefit is the assistance of group control systems in helping the firm to manage conflicting pressures in the institutional environment and facilitate coevolution of these conflicting pressures. To empirically demonstrate the relevance of this viewpoint, we examine the case of China where business groups facilitate institutional transition, actively balancing market pressures to increase levels …

Institutional Repositories—Strategies For The Present And Future, Connie Foster

DLTS Faculty Publications

Institutional repositories can create exciting possibilities for scholarly communication with access, discovery, and permanency for the intellectual capital of a university. Digital research repositories capture student and faculty research and allow publishing opportunities for electronic journals in an open access environment. Western Kentucky University launched TopSCHOLARtm in May 2007 and is reaping benefits from the decision to contract with an established publishing platform, bepress' Digital Commons.

Institutional Repositories are intended to create an alternative publishing model, enhance scholarly communication, showcase an institution's intellectual output, and preserve and provide access to an institution's digital assets. What are strategies and challenges involved …

Enhancing Information And Data Security: A Never Ending Quest, Knowledge@Smu

Knowledge@SMU

Since January 2005, according to the Piracy Rights Clearinghouse, in the US alone there have been data security breaches involving over 218 million records containing sensitive personal information. People whose personal records are compromised are at risk for identity theft and financial fraud. Singapore Management University’s School of Information Systems (SIS) is spearheading research on state-of-the-art technologies and solutions to secure IT infrastructure, protect confidential information for businesses and individuals, and build trust among all parties.

Building Benchmarks, James D. Sterling

Business and Information Technology Faculty Research & Creative Works

No abstract provided.

Temporal Changes In The Spatial Distribution Of Venture Capital Investment To Biotechnology Companies Within The United States., Rocky Graziano Bilotta

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The objective of this research is to investigate temporal changes in the spatial distribution of venture capital investments to biotechnology companies within the United States. Data included venture capital to biotech investments from 1995 to 2005. Venture capital and biotech data from the Money Tree Report, were gathered, analyzed, and mapped to show if a spatial relationship exists. The research examined venture capital investments at both the individual and the aggregated levels. At the individual level, the research examined whether the amount of investments a biotech company receives are influenced by physical distance to its closest investor, number of venture …

Operation And Technology Roadmapping Gives Singapore Smes A Strategic Edge, Knowledge@Smu

Knowledge@SMU

In today’s increasingly globalised, knowledge-based marketplace, a company’s ability to exploit innovation and technology is fundamental to sustaining growth and staying ahead of the competition. To help local small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) move up the value-chain, Singapore’s Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) runs the Operation and Technology Roadmapping (OTR) initiative. Michael Ferrill, who cofounded the programme, spoke on OTR and knowledge transfer at the Fourth International Research Conference on Asian Business held in March 2008 at the Singapore Management University.