Resource Nationalism Specter Hovers Over The Oil Industry: The Transnational Corporate Strategy To Tackle Resource Nationalism Risks

Resource nationalism is building momentum across oil-endowed countries. Transnational corporations (TNCs) have to effectively address the emerging scenarios that are caused by the resurgence in resource nationalism. This is clearly a diserable focus that has received much attention in the literature on government-business relations ever since the oil nationalization of the 1970s. But there is limited literature that provides a synthesized view on the transnational oil companies’ (TNOC) strategies to tackle resource nationalism risk; this leaves a gap in the literature where the paper aims to contribute. The paper explores the exclusive literature on resource nationalism and the activities of TNOCs, and from this literature engages in conceptual development. The paper focuses on the notion of resource nationalism and its implications on TNOCs’ activities in host states. This paper provides policy guidelines, suggesting the ways in which the major TNOCs can respond with robust responsible and sustainable programs to the resource nationalism in the global oil industry.

Does Strategic Alliance Matter In Managing Innovation In China?

Innovation is the route to competitive advantage for a firm. In this regard, strategic alliances, particularly international joint venture (IJV), is an effective vehicle for creating innovation capabilities. This paper attempts to explore innovation activities in IJVs between Chinese and Western companies. China is currently largely an OEM country that supplies the whole world with a wide variety of products. However it still lacks a higher level of innovation. The paper reports a qualitative study conducted at two Sino-Western IJVs about how IJVs can help Chinese companies to become innovative. China has easy access to foreign technology, but is weak in its domestic clustering of technology infrastructure. Sino-Western joint ventures are found useful in creating transferable innovation in China. The paper suggests key success factors for creating innovation capabilities through IJV formation

The Notion of Organizational Knowledge Systems

This research paper aims to explain several concepts(organization learning (OL), knowledge management (KM),talent management (TM) practices and organizationalknowledge systems (OKS) in order to have good understandingof the subject. Using an in-depth analysis of the extantliterature, this paper discusses the TM practices, OL processesand KM. This research offers valuable insights into the notion ofthe OKS that will help potential scholars and practitioners. Thispaper has focused on OKS which has not been addressed in theliterature before. The research paper helps creating a completevision about the OKS and filling the gap in the literature

Modelling the factors that influence the acceptance of digital technologies in e-government services in the UAE: a PLS-SEM approach

The digital technologies such as internet play a crucial role in the management of operations of organizations in both public and private sectors. Such technologies support the implementation of effective digital business strategies. By reviewing the extant literature, this paper aims to identify factors that influence the intention to use digital technologies in order to develop a theoretical model which is then tested empirically using the PLS-SEM approach. While many studies have focused solely on the importance of social influence, perceived usefulness, perceived ease of use, awareness, perceived trust in technology, perceived trust in government, perceived cost, and perceived risk, this article brings them together to explain their linkage, and quantifies the relationship. This study is the first empirical attempt to explore the factors influence e-government services adoption in the UAE. Most specifically, this article emphasizes the role of social influence, perceived ease to use, and perceived trust in technology as the important determinants of the intention to digital technology adoption. The paper expands the traditional discussion by incorporating six variables, in addition to Davis’s (1989) the perceived ease to digital technologies use and perceived usefulness, in a model that acts as facilitator or barrier in the intention to use digital technologies. This article helps practitioners to understand of which factors should be given emphasis in enhancing the intention to use digital technologies. The model developed in this paper is not only a response to the need to understand what causes the variation in the intention to use digital technologies from the operation management perspective, it is also a response to practitioner needs to use an appropriate construct to ensure the effective operation and use of the digital technologies in e-government services. The paper will help to identify the key issues surrounding the digital technologies adoption that may lead the successful operations of e-government

An analytical model of the relationship between product quality and advertising

International audienceThe existing literature debates if the products of better quality are more heavily advertised. This article resolves this contradiction by answering the question of when better quality leads to more advertising. It provides a novel articulation of prior empirical research, modeling the advertising-quality relationship in an optimal control setting. On the supply-side, a firm carries out advertising to promote its product and product innovation policies that improves product quality. On the demand-side, consumers are sensitive to product price, product quality, and advertising expenditure. The paper identifies the conditions that will dictate when the advertising-quality relationship will be positive or negative. The argument is that advertising increases with quality (i.e., positive relationships) if the demand effects (quality and advertising effects on demand) outweigh the supply effect (quality effect on cost). Alternatively, advertising decreases with quality (i.e., negative relationships) if the demand effects are lower than the supply effect. Consequently, despite consumer awareness of quality, a firm may advertise a product of lower quality more to maximize profit

Knowledge transfer frameworks:an extension incorporating knowledge repositories and knowledge administration

While theories abound concerning knowledge transfer in organisations, little empirical work has been undertaken to assess any possible relationship between repositories of knowledge and those responsible for the use of knowledge. This paper develops a knowledge transfer framework based on an empirical analysis of part of the UK operation of a Fortune 100 corporation, which extends existing knowledge transfer theory. The proposed framework integrates knowledge storage and knowledge administration within a model of effective knowledge transfer. This integrated framework encompasses five components: the actors engaged in the transfer of knowledge, the typology of organisational knowledge that is transferred between the actors, the mechanisms by which the knowledge transfer is carried out, the repositories where explicit knowledge is retained and the knowledge administrator equivalent whose function is to manage and maintain knowledge. The paper concludes that a ‘hybridisation’ of knowledge transfer approach, revealed by the framework, offers some promise in organisational applications.<br/