a r t i c l e i n f o This study analyzes the moderating effect of information systems (IS) strategy on the relationship between a firm's business strategy and organizational performance. From the resource-based view, the study analyzes the support that an innovative IS strategy and a conservative IS strategy can provide to low-cost and differentiation business strategies. Results of analysis f...

The aim of this paper is to explore business model innovation by Chinese entrepreneurial firms. Based on an in-depth investigation of entrepreneurial software firms, the findings suggest that Chinese entrepreneurial firms use a combination of experimentation and effectuation strategies to facilitate business model innovation, while mitigating the challenges of China’s business environment. Base...

Despite being accepted by corporate entrepreneurs and large business houses around the globe, the adaptation of strategies and concepts belonging to the newly evolved dimension of entrepreneurships, and the open innovation (OI), countries in the East, West or Southare yet to accommodate open innovation strategies in their business practices especially in efforts to reach out to the grassroots c...

Electronic Integration and Business Network Redesign: A RolesLinkage Model Ajit Kambil and James E. Short Electronic integration the use of information technology to re-engineer key business processes and business relations, enables new forms of organization that transcend traditional industry and firm boundaries. Indeed the electronic integration strategies alter the fundamental structure of b...

This paper describes the emerging trends in the major business segments of the integrated circuit industry. As the integrated circuit technology approaches its ultimate scaling limit, the different segments of the industry are evolving continuously by adopting new business strategies to gain competitive advantage: the manufacturing is persistently releasing next generation technologies, dedicat...

Adoption of innovation strategies in entrepreneurship is an age old phenomenon, but inclusion of open innovation or collaborative innovation strategies in the business processes is a newly evolved concept. By far, most research reveals that the majority of successful global ventures are adopting open innovation strategies in their business proceedings. However, despite their contribution to ent...

A number of typologies have been developed in the strategic management literature to categorize strategies that an organization can pursue at the business level. Extensive research has established Porter's generic strategies of (1) cost leadership, (2) differentiation, (3) differentiation focus, (4) cost focus, and (5) stuck-in-the-middle as the dominant paradigm in the literature. The purpose ...