Business Growth in Knowledge-Based Services: How Relationalism Affects Demand Side Growth Opportunities

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Kenneth Mawdsley ◽  
Deepak Somaya
Keyword(s):  
Demand Side ◽  
Business Growth ◽  
Growth Opportunities ◽  
Knowledge Based

scholarly journals An Analysis of Employee Satisfaction as a Reliable Predictor of Employee Retention in MNCS Working in India.

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 1478-1486
Keyword(s):  
Financial Services ◽  
Employee Satisfaction ◽  
Business Environment ◽  
Global Market ◽  
Business Growth ◽  
Statistical Tool ◽  
Know How ◽  
Knowledge Based ◽  
Level Of Satisfaction ◽  
Variance Calculation

Today, the constantly changing environment, global competition, the nature of work made companies to realize the importance of employee satisfaction for the success of organization. Now-days the competitive advantage of most companies on global market lies in the ability to create a profit driven not only by cost efficiency, but by the ideas and intellectual know-how. The networked and knowledge-based environment made the intangible assets like skills, relations and reputations of highest value. Employee satisfaction is the pleasurable emotional state resulting from the appraisal of one’s jobs as achieving or facilities the achievement of one’s job values. It is a measure of workers contentedness with their job. Every industry has different business environment, different policies for employment and different compensation measures. With the objective to analyzing the influencing factors, best policies of job satisfaction and its impact on business growth, the author decided to investigate the level of employee satisfaction in six industries namely: INFOSYS, HCL, Technologies Tech Mahindra, Oracle Financial Services, Wipro and Tata Consultancy Services. The researcher prepared questionnaire for the employees and get it filled from 303 respondents from these industries. In order to find level of satisfaction among employees of different industries, it was subjected to T-test statistical tool for variance calculation. The study concluded with the statement that the HR policies are different in different industries. The way they are implemented in different organizations has a great impact on employee satisfaction and retention.

A typology of knowledge collaboration

2016 ◽  
Vol 30 (4) ◽  
pp. 292-301
Author(s):  
Johanna Julia Vauterin ◽  
Terhi Virkki-Hatakka
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Workers ◽  
Clean Technology ◽  
Business Growth ◽  
Technology Entrepreneurship ◽  
Russian Market ◽  
Knowledge Based ◽  
Mutual Knowledge ◽  
New Business ◽  
Knowledge Collaboration ◽  
Development Paths

A critical understanding of how knowledge collaboration may work in various configurations is a prerequisite in shedding light on how effective knowledge collaboration affects opportunities for business growth. This article presents a case analysis of a knowledge collaboration initiative between a university and other knowledge organizations. The purpose of the collaboration was to accelerate the internationalization of Finnish clean technology entrepreneurship. Various knowledge actors participated but did not succeed in translating mutual knowledge into new opportunities for clean technology business growth in the Russian market. The authors develop a typology for knowledge collaboration, providing an explanatory logic for the multidimensional development paths of such collaboration and the considerations involved. This typology may support the professional development of knowledge workers engaged in similar initiatives. It may also assist in the establishment and assessment of knowledge-based project ventures, especially those in which universities and other knowledge institutions collaborate to create opportunities that benefit entrepreneurship and new business.

Relational Embeddedness, Breadth of Added Value Opportunities, and Business Growth

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
John K. Mawdsley ◽  
Deepak Somaya
Keyword(s):  
Firm Growth ◽  
Patent Law ◽  
Added Value ◽  
Law Firms ◽  
Demand Side ◽  
Business Growth ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Business Opportunities ◽  
Relational Embeddedness ◽  
Negative Effect

The current paper complements and extends traditional Penrosean theories of firm growth by examining how a (supplier) firm’s relational embeddedness with its portfolio of existing buyers affects its business growth. Our theorizing rests on the foundation that a firm’s business growth stems from its breadth (or volume) of opportunities for creating added value with buyers, which more fully realizes the Penrosean vision that firm growth can be explained by a dynamic interaction between productive resources and demand-side market opportunities. Although relational embeddedness may give a supplier dyadic advantages with focal buyers, which supports business growth, we theorize that it can also lead to narrower added value business opportunities with the supplier’s entire portfolio of buyers. Critically, we hypothesize that the effect of relational embeddedness on business growth is moderated by a set of relational and demand-side attributes. These hypotheses are tested on a panel data set of patent law firms (suppliers) and their relationships with corporate clients (buyers). We find that greater relational embeddedness is associated with slower supplier business growth, and consistent with our hypotheses, this negative effect is alleviated when these firms have greater cross-servicing ability and receive more relational commitment from buyers but exacerbated when suppliers hold more buyer-specific knowledge and when buyers undertake more (internal) concurrent sourcing. In turn, our research demonstrates how the attributes of a supplier’s relationships with its portfolio of buyers can impact access to new business opportunities and thus opens up new directions for research on firm growth, demand-side strategy and buyer-supplier relationships.

scholarly journals Advancing conceptualisation of university entrepreneurial ecosystems: The role of knowledge-intensive entrepreneurial firms

2019 ◽  
Vol 37 (3) ◽  
pp. 289-310 ◽  
Author(s):  
Albert N Link ◽  
Riikka M Sarala
Keyword(s):  
Entrepreneurial Firms ◽  
Demand Side ◽  
Firm Resources ◽  
Entrepreneurial Opportunities ◽  
Entrepreneurial Ecosystems ◽  
Knowledge Based ◽  
Entrepreneurial Firm ◽  
Resources And Capabilities ◽  
Knowledge Intensive

University entrepreneurial ecosystems are increasingly important in facilitating innovation and entrepreneurial opportunities in today’s knowledge-based economies. However, we have an incomplete understanding of the demand side of university entrepreneurial ecosystems regarding the role of the entrepreneurial firm as the key user of university knowledge. We propose that use of university knowledge positively influences entrepreneurial firm performance and that the entrepreneurial firm’s resources and capabilities facilitate its ability to create value from university knowledge. We test our hypotheses on survey data of 3853 knowledge-intensive entrepreneurial firms from 10 European countries. Our study contributes to an increased understanding of the economic, societal and technological contributions of universities by empirically illustrating the role of firm resources and capabilities as moderators of value in university entrepreneurial ecosystems.

Ideating a Recommender System for Business Growth Using Profit Pattern Mining and Uncertainty Theory

2019 ◽  
pp. 223-249
Author(s):  
Vivek Badhe ◽  
Satpal Singh ◽  
Terrence Shebuel Arvind
Keyword(s):  
Recommender System ◽  
Pattern Mining ◽  
Specific Pattern ◽  
Pattern Generation ◽  
Growth Strategy ◽  
Basic Rule ◽  
Business Growth ◽  
Market Growth ◽  
Knowledge Based ◽  
Promotional Strategies

Association rule mining (ARM) alone is a classical yet powerful method for basic rule discovery. However, generic measures being used are insufficient for specific pattern generation and rules of business interest. Critical decision making is a “key” component in contemporary businesses which could be rewarded by periodically utilizing patterns and rules to steer business growth and profit as well. To effectuate self-propelled growth in businesses, a feasible optimal recommender system needs to be accomplished without human intervention that recommends targeted product marketing and promotional strategies. In conjunction to ARM, uncertainty is a growing challenge in data mining research with facets of being probabilistic, fuzzy, or vague. Among many set theories to surmount uncertainty, vague set theory is employed for handling vagueness in data which gives the motivation of implementing a knowledge-based recommender framework by aggregating the two approaches to predict uncertain market growth strategy patterns and profitable rules.

Knowledge Management for Business Sustainability

2021 ◽  
pp. 30-44
Author(s):  
Neeta Baporikar
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Management ◽  
Literature Review ◽  
Theory Approach ◽  
Business Organizations ◽  
Business Growth ◽  
Business Sustainability ◽  
Knowledge Based ◽  
Critical Resource ◽  
Business Competitiveness ◽  
Grounded Theory Approach

Knowledge management is crucial in this knowledge-based society. Further, knowledge is a critical resource when it comes to business competitiveness and sustainability. Hence, to reach the sustainability aims, knowledge management (KM) may be regarded as central for any business organizations. Therefore, adopting an in-depth literature review method with a grounded theory approach, the aim of this chapter is to discuss the role and significance of knowledge management to ensure business growth and sustainability. The chapter also provides a holistic framework of knowledge management for business sustainability.

Escaping the shadow of the upas tree

2019 ◽  
pp. 39-60
Author(s):  
Stuart Patrick ◽  
Gordon Kennedy ◽  
David MacLeod
Keyword(s):  
Economic Structure ◽  
Economic Recovery ◽  
Public Private Partnerships ◽  
City Centre ◽  
Business Growth ◽  
Sustained Growth ◽  
Knowledge Based ◽  
Sectoral Structure ◽  
Traditional Approaches ◽  
The City

Glasgow experienced several decades of deindustrialization and the collapse of a closely connected manufacturing and heavy engineering “cluster “resulting in massive job losses and the physical scars of industrial dereliction. Since the early 1980s through a series of public / private partnerships the city has focused heavily on building a more diverse economic structure based largely on a range of sectors in the service and knowledge based economies as well as more traditional approaches to inward investment, physical regeneration, skills and business growth. As a result Glasgow has experienced a significant economic recovery with sustained growth in employment since the mid 1990s and a strong rebound from the 2008 crash. The city now has a more diverse sectoral structure with much of the recovery based on the continuing strength of the city centre and the skill base of the population.

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