Service Tyre and Tube Division: Strategic Capabilities for Business Growth

Web 2.0: Capabilities, Business Value and Strategic Practice

Web 2.0 is the adoption of open technologies and architectural frameworks to facilitate participative computing. Web 2.0 has the potential to deliver rich peer-to-peer interactions among users, enable collaborative value creation across business partners and create dynamic new services and business models. With the emergence of new information technology it is necessary for organizations to red...

Strategic Entrepreneurial Orientation and Small Business Growth

This chapter aims to define a coherent theoretical framework enabling a broader understanding of the strategic entrepreneurial orientation (SEO) and to evaluate their effects on small firm growth. A sample made up of 211 small Portuguese firms from various different sectors of activity was surveyed by questionnaire. The results demonstrate how the life-cycle of companies, their resources, capac...

A Strategic Pricing for Quality of Service (QoS) Network Business

In order to support emerging network businesses, such as Voice-over-IP (VoIP), virtual learning, video conferencing, and telemedicine, the Internet has to provide classes of service that are better than traditional ‘best-effort’ service. In computer networks, Quality of Service (QoS) is defined as the mechanisms that allow differentiation of network services based on their unique service requir...

Entrepreneurship for Managers Strategic Decision-Making for Business Growth

Enabling the business strategy of SMEs through e-business capabilities: A strategic alignment perspective

Purpose – The present study aims at a deeper understanding of the performance outcomes of the alignment between the e-business capabilities of manufacturing smalland medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and their business strategy in terms of Miles and Snow’s recognised strategic typology that includes prospectors, analyzers, and defenders. Design/methodology/approach – From a contingency theory per...