This paper examines the response of Indian firms to the emergence of a new disruptive market segment resulting from evolving biosimilar regulation and saturation of existing generics markets. Using novel analytical tools such as a technology–market capability matrix and a capability creation model, we show technological trajectories and heterogeneity in firm strategies employed by incumbent fir...

This study explores why international joint ventures (IJVs) based in the global South may meet with only partial success in nurturing local technological capability. The experience of China’s passenger-vehicle sector demonstrates that in the existence of a substantial technologicalcapability gap between alliance partners, the IJV arrangement is likely to create a “passive” learning mode, and le...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate three issues: how does an innovative search (local and boundary-spanning search) impact firm innovation performance latecomers; capability reconfiguration (capability evolution substitution) mediates the relationship between performance; technological leapfrogging process (initial stage, following synchronization stage leading stage) moderate ...

Foundational cellular immunology research of the 1960s and 1970s, together with the advent of monoclonal antibodies and flow cytometry, provided the knowledge base and the technological capability that enabled the elucidation of the role of CD4 T cells in HIV infection. Research identifying the sources and magnitude of variation in CD4 measurements, standardized reagents and protocols, and the ...

The concept of customer relationship management (CRM) resonates with managers in today's competitive economy. Yet recent articles in the business press have described CRM implementation failures, and consequent company reluctance to invest in CRM. The potential for substantially improved customer relationship management, coupled with the high uncertainty surrounding failed implementation effort...

A brief review of the technological advances of the Hopkinson bar technique in tension for the study of irradiated/non-irradiated nuclear materials and the development of this technology for large specimens is presented. Comparisons are made of the dynamic behaviour of non-irradiated and irradiated materials previously subjected to creep, low cycle fatigue and irradiation (2, 10 and 30 displace...