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... Nations Conference and Trade and Development (UNCTAD) (2004), global offshoring of services was... some services, such as engineering or software development, high-skilled workers (i.e., workers w...
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... by making client specific investments in software, IT infrastructure and training, and by involving ... and knowledge-intensive product development and analytical services (see Fig. 2 for the cumula...
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... to software maintenance and further development of OSS. Examples of OSS are the operating system L...
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This paper reviews recent books supporting the development of using qualitative methods in interpretative research. Revolving around three major issues, i.e. increasing the level of rigour, using software packages and new methodological developments, the paper outlines the specific contributions of these books and lays out further needs for development. [PUB ABSTRACT]
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.... Theory Development . We begin by reviewing research in two areas that...The Thai government also set up the Software Park Thailand to promote electronics start-up vent...
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It is often assumed that firms have freedom of choice over their HR policies and practices, however, the networks within which they operate suggest that the HR practices themselves may be influenced by clients, suppliers, partners and other collaborators. This paper aims to examine the development of HR policies and practices as a consequence of the exercise of strategic choice within the network. The influence of networks on competitive advantage is particularly evident in knowledge intensive firms (KIFs) that rely solely on their human capital to generate intellectual capital. We present three software firm case studies to illustrate various types of influences that the network may have on the HR Advantage of a firm.
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...First, the development of dynamic capability is intertwined with the know...Encino: Multivariate Software, Inc. . Birkinshaw, J., Morrison, A. J., & Hulland...
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The main objective of the article is to analyse the current state of the innovation activity among the Russian enterprises. The empirical evidence shows only 13% of the sample indicated that innovation is the first priority for the firm. We propose that the Russian Government designs innovation policies which takes into account the differences between the industries. Secondly, the Russian Government should promote international innovation cooperation by setting up technology trade agents in the most active countries in terms of innovation cooperation, such as Germany, the USA, and Finland. Thirdly, the CEOs of the Russian enterprises consider R&D funding as well as policy steps to increase R&D effectiveness, as those measures of innovation policy which should be of the highest p...
... 5% of her GDP to research and development, and this amount is increasing. The share of busin..., purchasing of production equipment and software, construction and development of innovation infras...
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This article explores the differences in international strategy between multinational enterprises (MNE) in services and manufacturing, especially in terms of their international diversification, as measured by their sales and asset dispersion. The longitudinal data show that the largest MNEs in services have a much stronger home-region orientation than manufacturing MNEs. Large MNEs in the services sector average 83.9% of their sales in their home region, which is significantly higher than large manufacturing firms at 65.6%. The article explores the possible reasons for the relative lack of globalization of services firms. The two main reasons are: the difficulty of adapting separately upstream activities and downstream activities in high distance host environments, and the difficulty o...
... services provision, as with off-shored software development or call-centers. For MNEs pursuing a s...
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A component selection is a crucial problem in Component-Based Software Engineering (CBSE), which is concerned with the assembly of pre-existing software components. We are approaching the component selection involving dependencies between components. We formulate the problem as multiobjective, involving two objectives and one constraint. The approach used is an evolutionary computation technique. The experiments and comparisons with the greedy approach show the effectiveness of the proposed approach.
..., it will be treated in the future development. The paper is organized as follows: Section 2 star...