Innovation in a Newly Industrializing Country: A Multiple Discriminant Analysis

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This article examines 42 innovative firms in a newly industrializing country, Korea. It identifies different patterns of innovation associated with four types of firms, which is categorized by two variables: the source of initiation and the local availability of related foreign products. Bivariate analyses suggest that innovation patterns are distinctly different for Type I firms (user initiated and related foreign products locally available) and Type IV firms (innovator initiated and no related foreign products locally available). Type I firms use and benefit most from close interactions with customers and visits to the domestic users of related foreign products, while Type IV firms benefit most from the overseas observation of foreign suppliers and the assistance of local R & D institutes. The other two groups are more closely related but still different from the above two groups. The results of a multiple discriminant analysis are supportive of the patterns which emerged in the bivariate analyses. It was also found that majority of important and crucial information to solve technical problems were transferred free of charge from abroad through informal mechanisms rather than formal collaboration with foreign firms. The findings suggest that different situations call for different approaches to make innovations successful. (Reprinted by Permission of Publisher.)

Technology transfer, Creativity, Companies, Statistical Analysis, Korea, South

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Uncertainty and Technical Communication Patterns

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This paper examines the relationship between research and development peoples' perceptions of uncertainty in their firm's competitive environment and their patterns of technical communication. Measures of both these attributes of six R & D groups, two in each of three industries, are reported and analyzed here. Technical people who saw the world (competitors, suppliers, customers, technology and regulations) outside their firm as more uncertain also were found to seek greater contact with sources of information outside their firms. The gatekeeper phenomenon was found to be more pronounced, but less formal and less well defined in these firms. Gatekeepers in general were found to perceive a higher level of uncertainly than other in all six firms. (Reprinted by Permission of Publisher.)

Communications, Information theory, Personnel, Communication, Competition, Organizational Communications, Attitude

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The Evolution of Organizational Structure and Technology in a Developing Country

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The study addresses the issues of whether organization and management theories developed in advanced countries are valid for developing countries and why is organization evolution and management different. A conceptual model of organization and evolution in a developing country was built. Manufacturing organizations in a developing country tend to be small, adaptable, have few product changes, assemble standardized products, and perceive that raw material and equipment suppliers are important components. Manufacturing organizations in advanced countries have the opposite characteristics. Tables show computational results from the model.

Manufacturing, Technology, Organizational behavior, Modeling, Data modeling software, Developed Countries, Operations Research

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