Top manager and network effects on the adoption of innovative management practices: a study of TQM in a public hospital system
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Total quality management in a public hospital setting is analyzed to determine why organizations introduce innovative management techniques. Top managers have a greater effect on the introduction of innovative management practices while the network has a greater effect on the diffusion of the innovative management practices.
Publication Name: Strategic Management Journal
Subject: Business
ISSN: 0143-2095
Year: 2001
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The influence of merhers on firms' product-mix strategies
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The institutional and resource-based theories of the firm are described. It also examines whether multi-product firms use mergers as a strategic tool to reconfigure their product-mix toward high-profit products.
Publication Name: Strategic Management Journal
Subject: Business
ISSN: 0143-2095
Year: 2004
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Modeling service alliances: an exploratory investigation of spillover effects in service patnerships
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The structural equation modeling of service partnerships for the analysis of spillover effects on service quality in service alliances is described.
Publication Name: Strategic Management Journal
Subject: Business
ISSN: 0143-2095
Year: 2007
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