Showing papers in "The Journal of High Technology Management Research in 2008"

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine different venture creation process attributes across technology-based entrepreneurs and non-technology-based nascent entrepreneurs, and find that TBEs engage in more startup activities in planning, legitimacy establishment and resource acquisitions, but not in marketing, while N-TBEs take longer to complete gestation.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors developed a mediation model in which high-performance human resource practices affect corporate entrepreneurship (CE) through organizational citizenship behavior (OCB), and found that HR practices are positively related to CE and this relationship is mediated by the OCB of employees.

TL;DR: In this paper, a list of competencies that multiple-project managers should possess organized as a competency model for effectiveness in managing multiple projects is proposed, including organizational experience, interdependency management, multitasking, simultaneous team management, and management of interproject process.

TL;DR: In this paper, a subset of management practices that may contribute to the success of radical innovation efforts by large established firms are examined. And three such practices are examined: a real options approach to funding and evaluating projects, propensity to experiment in the marketplace, and commercialization of early applications quickly.

TL;DR: It is revealed that organizational adoption can only be accomplished if the satisfaction with the ERP system is achieved by competency and flexibility of the technology along with the special efforts of project management during project implementation.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigate the prevalence of the motive to source technological knowledge externally through corporate acquisition and infer the implications of this explanation for the acquirers' pre-acquisition innovative characteristics.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the relationship between exploration and new product development performance while considering the moderating effects of cognitive skills and environmental uncertainty, and found that exploration is positively related to NPD performance, and that both A-shaped skills of team leaders a well as technological uncertainty significantly moderated this relationship.

TL;DR: Das et al. as discussed by the authors examined the role of task complexity, nationality, prior alliance experience, and disparity in alliance experience in strategic alliance termination and performance and found that strategic alliances are more likely to be terminated and have poor performance when they have both R&D and marketing elements, domestic partners, and limited prior strategic alliance experience.

TL;DR: In this paper, a conceptual model that helps to explain both the external and internal environmental influences that an individual is influenced by intending to adopt wireless application protocol (WAP) banking is proposed.

TL;DR: In this paper, the relative changes of diffusion parameters for both first time purchasers and upgraders along with developing a more general sales model for multiple technology generation products are studied for consumer durables.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined how market orientation is manifested in the context of small, rapidly internationalizing software companies and concluded that any internationalising software company should focus its market orientation more on the individual-customer level than on the overall market level.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present the results of the research projects on technology acquisition in the electronics industry of Oregon, in several industries of Turkey and in the U.S. electronics manufacturing industry.

TL;DR: In this article, a longitudinal case study of a high-tech start-up was conducted to explore how different forms of entrepreneurship coexist and interplay to create a firm's innovative dynamics.

TL;DR: This paper provides a new systems-based process for bid management and project management through systems engineering supported by extensive literature studies that provide representative systems related tools, techniques and methodologies for each stage of the process.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors develop and test a causal model of the influence of organizational governance mechanisms on firm innovation and hypothesize that firm incentive provisions and self-regulation behaviors affect the creative capabilities of firms.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the influence of TMT characteristics and firm growth on pre-IPO management team restructuring and found that TMT tenure, TMT founder percentage, and TMT functional heterogeneity are negatively associated with management team re-structuring.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors highlight the significance and importance of inter-unit competition in high technology organizations and propose that the autonomy to choose market breadth facilitates and promotes interunit competition and that this relationship is further strengthened by evaluating units using objective criteria.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine firm and board characteristics that predict whether a new CEO will come from the firm's current management, from the board of directors, or from outside the firm.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors test the technology shock hypothesis with time-series data on productivity from Indian and US sugar industries and show that it implies pre-eminence of managerial discretion and strategic choice.