Offshoring innovation: an empirical investigation of dyadic complementarity within SMEs

Despite scholarly agreement that complementary capabilities are essential to successful collaborations, little is known about how small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) manage collaborative innovation through offshoring. Besides, the innovation management literature remains generally silent about when supplier joint actions could work in enhancing offshoring innovation (OI) performance. The purpose of this study is twofold. First, we aim to delineate why supplier's asset specificity and goal compatibility predict supplier's complimentary capabilities in OI. Second, we empirically explore the role of supplier joint actions in enhancing OI performance. Based on data collected from 200 SMEs having active OI relationships spanning four developed European countries, our results propose that supplier's complementary capabilities mediate the relationship between critical relational antecedents (supplier's asset specificity and goal compatibility) and OI performance. It should be noted, however, that despite their incentivising power, supplier joint actions can be a “double-edged sword” in SMEs’ OI relationships

M90-008: Portrait of H. Rayburn

Portrait print of H. Rayburn by G. Palmie 1959 Includes writing by H. Rayburn from May 6, 1913. Framed in a wooden framehttps://scholarworks.umt.edu/mansfieldartifacts/1593/thumbnail.jp

Le vin et la santé

MONTPELLIER-BU Pharmacie (341722105) / SudocSudocFranceF

La dépendance aux stéroïdes anabolisants androgènes

MONTPELLIER-BU Pharmacie (341722105) / SudocSudocFranceF

Le Tiludronate chez l'homme et chez l'animal

MONTPELLIER-BU Pharmacie (341722105) / SudocSudocFranceF

Business models for digital sustainability : Framework, microfoundations of value capture, and empirical evidence from 130 smart city services

The emerging research stream on digital sustainability examines how digital technologies enable the creation of environmental and social value. The need to finance the creation of such value calls for a business model perspective that combines value creation and value capture. To extend the digital sustainability literature in this regard, we adopt a microfoundations perspective and argue that the configuration of value creation influences the decision of users to pay for a value proposition or not, which in turn affects organizational value capture. Applying a crisp-set qualitative comparative analysis to 130 smart city initiatives in Switzerland, we develop a three-dimensional framework of business models for digital sustainability. The framework comprises 12 theoretically possible business model types, representing distinct business model configurations. We contribute to the digital sustainability and the microfoundations literatures by analyzing, explaining, and classifying the diversity of digitally enabled business models in the context of smart cities.Validerad;2023;Nivå 2;2023-04-14 (joosat);Funder: Swiss National Science Foundation (project number 407740_187381); Research Council of NorwayLicens fulltext: CC BY License</p

Quantitative Volumenbestimmungen auf MR-Tomogrammen beim kommunizierenden Hydrozephalus: Quantitative determination of volume on MR tomograms in communicating hydrocephalus

Langkowski JH, Palmie SG, Koschitzky H v., et al. Quantitative Volumenbestimmungen auf MR-Tomogrammen beim kommunizierenden Hydrozephalus: Quantitative determination of volume on MR tomograms in communicating hydrocephalus. Fortschritte auf dem Gebiete der Röntgenstrahlen und der Nuklearmedizin. 1989;150(02):125-129.Die Implantation eines kardioventrikulären Shunts ist in vielen Fällen des kommunizierenden Hydrozephalus eine bewährte Therapie. Allerdings ist die Indikationsstellung häufig problematisch, da in einigen Fällen eine Shunt-Operation keinen Erfolg verspricht. Neben den klinischen Zeichen scheint der Nachweis und die Ausdehnung von periventrikulären Ödemen ein zusätzliches Kriterium für die Indikation zur Implantation und zur Wahl des Ventiltyps zu sein. Mit Hilfe eines selbst entwickelten Computerprogramms erfolgte bei sechs Patienten eine Volumenbestimmung des Ventrikelsystems und der periventrikulären Ödeme auf T2-gewichteten MR-Tomogrammen (1,5 Tesla). Quotienten der Volumina wurden mit Liquordruckwerten korreliert, die intraoperativ oder lumbal bestimmt wurden. Dabei fanden sich deutliche Hinweise auf eine Korrelation zwischen dem Ausmaß der periventrikulären Ödeme und den Liquordruckwerten.For patients with communicating hydrocephalus the implantation of a cardioventricular shunt is mostly an approved therapy. However, indications are frequently problematic and therefore a shunt operation will not be always successful. The proof of periventricular oedemas in addition to clinical signs seems to be a criterion for an indication for implantation and for the selection of a special valve. With the aid of a newly developed computer programme volume estimation of the ventricular system and the periventricular oedemas has been effected for six patients on T2-weighted MR-tomograms (1.5 tesla). Quotients of the different volumina are correlated with cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) pressure obtained during shunt implantation or lumbar measurement. Distinct indications have been found for a correlation between the volume of the periventricular oedemas and the pressure measurements

Thyroid hormone signaling in the Xenopus laevis embryo is functional and susceptible to endocrine disruption

Thyroid hormone (TH) is essential for vertebrate brain development. Most research on TH and neuronal development focuses on late development, mainly the perinatal period in mammals. However, inhumaninfants neuromotor development correlates best with maternal TH levels in the first trimester of pregnancy, suggesting that TH signaling could affect early brain development

A New Research Agenda for the Study of Genetic Ancestry Tests and the Formation of Racial and Ethnic Identities and Ancestries

This paper sets out a new research agenda for the study of family historians’ (referred to as ‘genealogists’) use of genetic ancestry tests in the course of their family history research in postcolonial Britain. My focus is upon the ways in which the use of these tests shapes the formation of genealogists’ ethnic, racial, national, class and gender identities and their ancestries. I argue that, while there is some significant and important work on the ways in which African Americans and white Americans deploy these tests to trace their family histories, there is little comparable work in the context of postcolonial Britain. Drawing on sociological, anthropological and geographical research on identity, genetic ancestry testing and family history research, I set out some of the theoretical issues that research in this area in Britain should address, and outline possible methodologies and methods that will serve to bridge this gap in the current literature on race, ethnicity, identity and genealogy