The impact of a company's business strategy on its technological competence, network competence and innovation success

Ritter, Thomas; Gemünden, Hans George

doi:10.1016/s0148-2963(02)00320-x

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“…It can be hampered or facilitated by numerous factors. We observed that the networks used by ornamental plant growers are to a high extent dependent on the type of innovation, as also was the case with other SMEs (Ritter and Gemünden 2004).…”

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Networking and innovation within the ornamental plant sector

Lambrecht

Taragola²,

Kühne

et al. 2015

Agric Econ

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The ornamental plant cultivation could benefit from networking, as the locus of innovation is no longer the individual farm, but increasingly the network within which the farm is embedded. The main contribution of this paper is to shed light on the relation between networking and innovation and the influencing factors for networking as leverage for innovation within the ornamental plant sector. In contrast to the majority of the innovation studies, which are focusing on technological innovation i.e. product and process innovations, this study includes also marketing and organizational innovations. By looking at the link between innovation type and network partner, we found that network partners differ depending on the innovation type. Furthermore, this study provides insights into the factors influencing networking in the ornamental plant sector in particular. The results lead to implications for ornamental plant growers and network coordinators. It is important that growers are aware of the merit of partner suitability for the innovation type they are aiming at. For network coordinators, it is important to set up a clear strategy and communicate for which innovations their network can advise and help the farmer. They could focus on improving their approachability and try to increase the added value of activities by aligning them better with farmers' needs.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 64%

Networking and innovation within the ornamental plant sector

Lambrecht

Taragola²,

Kühne

et al. 2015

Agric Econ

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“…The scale measuring network competence is based on questionnaire of Ritter and Gemunden (2004), which is made up of 11 items, including task implementation and qualification. The measurement scale of relationship quality is mainly according to Hewett, Money and Sharma (2002), Garbarino and Johnson (1999), Roberts, Varki and Brodie (2003), which is made up of 4 items.…”

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The Impacts of Network Competence, Knowledge Sharing on Service Innovation Performance: Moderating Role of Relationship Quality

Jian

Wang

2013

Liss 2012

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“…These strategies includes business process re-engineering (Attaran, 2003(Attaran, , 2004, the exploration of offshore opportunities (Farrell, 2005;Jahns et al, 2006;Sako, 2006), business transformation (Keen and Qureshi, 2006) and the restructuring and consolidating of call and data centres (Ellis and Taylor, 2006). It is however important to highlight that while such initiatives are essential, the success of highly distributed businesses ultimately hinges, according to Logan (2004), on the capacity and efficiency of the global networks over which they run, in effect, on the network competency of the organisation (Ritter and Gemu¨nden, 2004;Ritter et al, 2001).…”

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Success criteria for systems led transformation

Ojiako

Maguire

2008

Industrial Management &Amp; Data Systems

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Purpose -Organisational transformation has been a major research theme over the last few decades. The main emphasis focuses on how successful organisations are using information systems and technology (IS/IT) to transform business operations. This paper aims to summarize and evaluate the key perspectives and concepts of change management. These perspectives and concepts are used to conduct an overview of the transformation of a major UK telecommunications company is using IS as a driver. Design/methodology/approach -This paper focuses on trying to understand the whole range of systems-related problems that may confront an organisation during the introduction of new operational systems as part of organisational change and transformation. The primary objective is to identify best practice. A case study focusing on a large organisation is the approach used to try and elicit learning. Findings -The view emerging from the case study is that there are generic problems that need to be addressed especially related to how system changes, processes and the customer are managed. Even with an increasing caseload of examples where large firms are unsuccessfully with major organisational transformations-companies are still willing to undergo this risky change process. Research limitations/implications -It is intended that this best practice framework will be used in other organisational environments. Originality/value -The paper contributes to widening studies on systems introduction as part of organisational change.

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The impact of a company's business strategy on its technological competence, network competence and innovation success

Cited by 365 publications

References 36 publications

Networking and innovation within the ornamental plant sector

Networking and innovation within the ornamental plant sector

The Impacts of Network Competence, Knowledge Sharing on Service Innovation Performance: Moderating Role of Relationship Quality

Success criteria for systems led transformation

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