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OSCS is a new concept signifying the process by which the firm incorporates open source principles into its business model, as an effective diversification strategy to gain and sustain competitive advantage, in the context of a globally interconnected soci ...
We propose a new concept, OSCS, seeking to explain the process by which the firm incorporates open source principles into its business model, as an effective diversification strategy to gain and sustain competitive advantage, in the context of a globally i ...
This doctoral dissertation defines and sheds light on a nascent phenomenon in management, informally referred to as "crowdsourcing". I term this concept Open Source Corporate Strategy, or OSCS, which borrows insights from the open source innovation literat ...
The Internet, a classic Schumpeterian innovation, has profoundly altered our lives and influenced the ways we do business. It is now widely accepted by policy makers, scholars, and enterprises that the Internet and related information technologies are the ...
Postal incumbents in Europe have encountered during the last decade fundamental changes in their industry environment, which now threaten their very business model: governments decided to liberalise first the parcel market, then gradually the letter market ...
This thesis describes the development of three conceptual models built to serve as decision support tools in liberalised electricity markets. The introduction of competition, higher uncertainty and decentralised planning requires new planning and analysis ...
In this study, we explore the impact of venture capitalist involvement on the relationship between a new venture's pre-IPO performance and the subsequent likelihood of founder turnover. Using new venture perspectives, and the life cycle and agency theories ...
For organizations to flourish in a changing environment, their business processes need to be flexible. Designing flexible business processes is a challenge. We use Weick’s theory of organizing to propose some principles for designing flexible business proc ...
This thesis presents the Situation-Based Modeling Framework for Enterprise Architecture. This framework improves system modeling by making models more systemic and, therefore, making reasoning about these models easier. The context of this thesis is Enterp ...
Business process modeling techniques, such as BPMN, encourage the early specification of the exact order in which the activities of the process will be executed. However, a business process may be exposed to different environments and subjected to many con ...
