Investment in equipment and new ideas (technological and managerial) are crucial engines of growth. Investing in capital allows existing firms to incorporate new technologies and can be an important part of their strategies to reorganise production processes towards global best practice. The dynamism of innovative new firms which introduce new products and processes is also important for growth...

Current Knowledge Management (KM) design approaches recognize the importance of integrating codification, personalization, and collaboration strategies. Incorporating various database systems, search functions, managerial support, performance appraisal, personalized widgets, and case summaries into seamless functions are exemplary efforts. However, KM is rarely integrated with organizational le...

This paper examines heterogeneity in the response of Indian firms to the emergence of a new disruptive market segment biosimilars. Using the novel analytical tool of a technology?market capability matrix we show that path dependency and managerial vision are key drivers of heterogeneity in the reconfiguration processes and strategies employed by incumbent firms to compete in a new disruptive ma...

The Health Services Research & Development Service (HSR&D) focuses on identifying effective and cost-effective strategies for organizing and delivering health care and for optimizing patient and system-level outcomes. HSR&D programs span the continuum of health care research and delivery, from basic research to the dissemination of research results, and ultimately to the application of these fi...

Article history: Received 26 March 2014 Received in revised form 11 October 2014 Accepted 14 October 2014 Available online 24 October 2014 This paper revisits the endogenous choice problemof the strategic contracts in amixed duopoly of one public firm and one managerial private firm, with differentiated goods. This paper considers the situation wherein the separation between ownership and manag...

In an environment where managers’ability to generate pro…ts changes stochastically over time, we characterize the optimal turnover policy for a …rm hiring a succession of managers. The focus is on the interaction between the compensation scheme used to incentivize the managers’e¤ort and the retention policy used to screen the managers’types and induce the desired turnover. Our key positive resu...

This paper develops a model for the closed-loop supply chain network design with disruption risk. By considering supply disruption, two factors including extra inventory and lateral transshipment are used as resilience strategies. The main purpose is to reduce the supply chain costs due to the location decisions, quantity of products between different levels and lost sale. Disruption in a suppl...