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Innovation Management at the Fuzzy Front End: AI, Business Cases, and Product Portfolios
This chapter examines the strategic management of the Fuzzy Front End (FFE) in innovation, emphasizing its role in new product development for mature firms with extensive product portfolios. We show how FFE shapes competitive advantage and how artificial intelligence (AI) redefines early-stage decision-making, business case development, and business model innovation. AI reveals emerging opportunities, enhances…
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Innovative Learning Ecosystems for Entrepreneurial Education A Dual Chinese-Western Perspective
The importance of entrepreneurial education systems – designed to navigate complexity, multiculturalism, and digital transformation – has grown in response to today’s volatile and uncertain world. These systems play a pivotal role in equipping future generations with entrepreneurial knowledge, new skills, and the ability to create innovative ventures. Research emphasizes the need for systematic approaches…
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Introductory Chapter: Recent Advances, New Perspectives and Applications on Strategic Management
The past 50 years have witnessed increasing efforts by academics and practitioners globally to deepen the understanding of the nature, sources, and determinants of strategic management practices and theories [1]. Research seeks to map, measure, and expand our understanding of how strategic initiatives are integrated into the economic system. Initially influenced by foundational theories [2],…
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A Multi-level Perspective to Biosimilars Development: Pathways Towards Incremental Innovation in the Health Bioeconomy
Biosimilar development is one of the extraordinary changes sweeping through the pharmaceutical industry, providing an opportunity for incremental innovation in the health bioeconomy domain. The dawn of the New Biology, global knowledge diffusion that inspires reverse innovation, and an increased political commitment to the real subsumption of nature through the bioeconomy characterize biosimilar development. These…
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La valeur des communautés
La question de la valeur des communautés pour une entreprise ou une organisation est posée de manière récurrente. Alors que le modèle de communauté modifie les pratiques de management et les modes d’organisation habituellement en vigueur, cette question revient sous différentes formes : quels sont les bénéfices d’une communauté ; quels en sont les coûts ; y…
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Corporate Storytelling : Intégrer la pandémie dans l’histoire de l’entreprise
Cet ouvrage vise à approfondir la question initiale de l’impact de la crise sur le management avec la prise de recul permise par la poursuite de la crise. Il cherche à analyser ce que sont et seront les conséquences DURABLES de la crise sanitaire sur le management des entreprises et des organisations. Chaque auteur s’est…
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Rethinking Managerial Control in the Contemporary Context: What Can We Learn from Recent Chinese Indigenous Management Research?
In this chapter, we revisit the role of managerial control in modern organizations and summarize the challenges faced by experts in the field of managerial control today to rethink managerial control models and tools for agile, adaptative and innovative organizations.