Outsourcing, supply chain upgrading and connectedness of a firm's competencies

While planning and implementing outsourcing initiatives, firms often wish to isolate outsourcing to a neatly defined area. However, experiences show that such isolation sometimes fails with detrimental effects for the outsourcing firm. This paper focuses on supply chain upgrading and the connectedness of a firm's competencies. Based on a case study, frameworks are illustrated and managerial implications and further research areas are identified. The paper contributes to the outsourcing discussion with an analytical tool useful for planning and monitoring outsourcing initiatives.     

Business Cultural Intelligence Quotient: A Five‐Country Study

Cultural intelligence (CI) has often been linked to performance at the individual, team, and firm levels as a key factor in international business success. Using a new measure of CI, the business cultural intelligence quotient (BCIQ), our study provides empirical evidence on several key antecedents of CI using data on business professionals across five diverse countries (Austria, Colombia, Greece, Spain, and the United States). The findings suggest that the most important factors leading to cultural intelligence, in order of importance, are the number of countries that business practitioners have lived in for more than six months, their level of education, and the number of languages spoken. We find that cultural intelligence varies across countries, suggesting that some countries have a higher propensity for cross‐cultural business interactions. By teasing out the common antecedents of BCIQ among professionals, our findings may help with screening and training professionals for international assignments. Future research may examine the environmental (country‐specific) factors associated with a higher propensity for cultural intelligence (such as immigration, cultural diversity, languages spoken, and international trade) to explain the effect of country of origin on cultural intelligence in the professional community. © 2016 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.     

Spillovers,integrated production and the theory of the firm

Recent econometric literature has demonstrated the existence of significant technological spillovers within and around groups of advanced (R&D-intensive) firms. I demonstrate thatcompetence blocks of advanced firms operate as technical universities and research institutes, unintentionally providing free educational and research services, often in areas where such services are not supplied by existing educational institutions or where the nature of competence makes traditional educational institutions incapable of supplying them. I demonstrate that the competence that diffuses from such competence blocks is botheconomic andtechnological, that it only diffuses under particular market circumstances, notably characterized by competition, and that the outcomes are typically experimental.Integrated production is an organizational technique to coordinate complex production in mechanical engineering industry within firms and over specialized consultants and subcontractors in the market. Such organizational competence is typically tacit and difficult to communicate outside its production context. Hence, such a production organization often functions as a competence block that spills knowhow throughout the industry. This organizational form is also very useful in illustrating the nature of the firm, the nature of the organizational competence that forms the backbone of western industrial technology and how that competence generates economic growth through the intermediation of firms. I use Swedish aircraft industry as a case illustration.     

创造企业竞争优势:内部资源,外部网络及其整合

随着环境与技术的变化，组织网络已经成为企业生存环境的重要组成部分。尽管资源学派强调组织内部的资源能力是竞争优势的主要来源，企业外部网络对竞争优势的贡献也已经被越来越多的学者所认识。本文在进一步归纳两种不同竞争优势来源观的基础上，重点讨论了内部资源能力与外部网络在创造竞争优势时的互动关系，最后通过理性期望模型分析了内部资源能力与外部网络及其整合对建立企业竞争优势的作用。     

区域旅游产业品牌竞争力评价指标体系构建研究

随着旅游产业的迅速发展,如何提升区域旅游产业品牌竞争力以促进区域旅游经济发展已日益引起学术界的关注,成为一个重要的研究领域.本文从区域旅游产业品牌竞争力的涵义出发,在对其影响因素分析的基础上,构建区域旅游产业品牌竞争力评价指标体系,旨在为旅游产业的进一步发展提供参考.     

企业核心竞争力评价与会计信息解读研究

本文以企业核心竞争力评价理论为基础,全面研究了企业核心竞争力分析评价方法。笔者认为,应以超额收益和超额收益率为核心指标来评价企业核心竞争力。在纵向评价方面,可采用多维分析法、战略矩阵图法、多因素分析法、超额收益法和平衡计分卡法予以评价;在横向评价方面,可采用模糊综合评价法、因子分析法和基于AHP法的指数标度法予以评价。对企业核心竞争力评价的目的就在于向会计信息使用者传递和解释企业核心竞争力的大小及其价值波动的规律。     

企业家隐性知识水平差异研究:一个概念模型

隐性知识水平差异,可用来解释企业家能力差异的问题。分析了影响企业家隐性知识水平差异的三大主要因素:企业家经验、企业家的学习风格和企业家网络,并构建了企业家隐性知识水平差异的概念模型。企业家隐性知识的获得主要有两条途径:实践和知识转移。企业家经验和学习风格因素主要在第一条路径上发生作用,企业家网络因素则通过第二条路径影响其隐性知识水平。深化了对企业家能力的理论研究,并赋予了其一个新的研究视角。     

企业核心竞争力和非核心竞争力竞争追随与均衡

企业核心和非核心竞争力追随会导致其竞争力升级和竞争力趋同。构建了企业核心和非核心竞争力竞争追随模型,讨论了在竞争追随条件下的核心和非核心竞争力的发展追随规律。     

基于模块化视角的品牌竞争力动态机制

品牌竞争力是企业适应不断变化的外部环境、实现可持续成长的最重要来源之一。以模块化作为研究的出发点,从知识、自组织和模块化3个视角来建立品牌竞争力动态机制,为企业品牌战略的有效制定和实施提供有益的工具。     

企业合作创新研究述评

在合作竞争开始代替企业竞争而成为经济发展主流的今天,合作创新的研究具有深远的意义。本文从合作创新的内涵界定、动力机制、模式选择以及合作创新在企业核心能力建立和提高中所起的作用等几个方面对合作创新的相关研究文献进行梳理,并提出了进一步深入研究的若干设想。