Technological Innovation and International Competitiveness for Business Growth: Challenges and Oppor

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Chapter 1:

Technological Innovation and International Competitiveness for Business Growth: State-of-the-art

 

João J. Ferreira

jjmf@doe.upv.es

University of Beira Interior, Portugal

 

Sérgio J. Teixeira

jesusteixeira1984@gmail.com

University of Madeira, Portugal

 

  Hussain G. Rammal

hrammal@gmail.com

  University of Technology Sydney, Australia

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Chapter 2:

Cross-national teams and the remote management of team members in Indian IT MNCs: The onsite-offshore phenomenon

 

 

Parth Patel

parth.patel@ncl.ac.uk

Newcastle University Business School, UK

 

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Chapter 3:

Brazilian National Development Bank' impact on the steel industry's efficiency: a two-stage Malmquist model usage

 

 

 Ricardo Kalil Moraes

ricardo.kalil@coppead.ufrj.br

Rio de Janeiro Federal University, Brazil

 

Peter Fernandes Wanke

peter@coppead.ufrj.br

Rio de Janeiro Federal University, Brazil

 

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Chapter 4:

New approaches to the analysis of competitiveness in the tourism sector. The necessary balance between growth and respect for the locals

José María Martín Martín

josemaria.martin@unir.net

University of La Rioja, Spain

José Manuel Guaita Martinez

josemanuel.guaita@campusviu.es

Valencian International University, Spain

 

José Antonio Salinas Fernández

jasalinas@ugr.es

University of Granada, Spain

 

Domingo Enrique Ribeiro Soriano
domingo.ribeiro@uv.es

Universitat de València, Spain

 

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Chapter 5:

Internal Barriers to the Brazilian Economy Achieving External Competitiveness

 

Arilda M. C. Teixeira

arilda@fucape.br

Fucape Business School - Brazil

 

Emerson Wagner Mainardes

emerson@fucape.br

Fucape Business School - Brazil

 

 

Chapter 6:

Technological Innovation and Exports: Effects on Firm Growth

 

María Jesús Rodríguez-Gulías

maria.gulias@udc.es

Universidade da Coruña, Spain

 

Sara Fernández-López

sara.fernandez.lopez@usc.es

Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Spain

 

 

David Rodeiro-Pazos

david.rodeiro@usc.es

Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Spain

 

 

Chapter 7:

Service Business Growth: A Spinner Model application

 

 

Bouchaib Bahli

bahli@ryerson.ca

Ryerson University, Canada

 

 

 

 

Ronnie Figueiredo

ronnie.andrade@ubi.pt

Research Unit in Business Sciences (NECE), University if Beira Interior, Portugal

 

 

 

 

 

 

Chapter descriptions (Short Abstract)

 

Chapter 1: Knowledge, innovation and sustainable development in organizations: State-of-the-art

The concept of technology and innovation ecosystem is receiving increasing attention worldwide. Governments and academics are keen to foster innovation ecosystems to systematically cultivate favorable environments and encourage companies to create knowledge and competitive advantage to leverage growth and business value. This chapter attempts to examine the current paradigms, theories and frameworks contributing for our understanding of the technology-innovation-competitiveness linkages of business growth.

Chapter 2: Cross-national teams and the remote management of team members in Indian IT MNCs: The onsite-offshore phenomenon

 

There is a substantial body of research that has looked at multinational corporations (MNCs) and their evolution into globally integrated networks (Salk and Brannen, 2000) with distributed and transnational teams spanning across multiple geographic, physical, and cultural boundaries (Connaughton and Shuffler, 2007; Earley and Gibson, 2002; Lagerstrom and Andersson, 2003; Schweiger, Atamer and Calori, 2003; Snow, Snell, Davison and Hambrick, 1996). Given this backdrop, there is growing academic interest on learning about the MNC's use of globally distributed network (GDNs) using cross-national (CNTs) and remote teams (RTs) to manage their foreign operations in host countries (Goodall and Roberts, 2003; Hinds, Liu and Lyon, 2011). However, despite the growing scholarly interest, our understanding of how MNC's use distributed work (GDW) and cross-national teams has remained very limited due to a lack of contextualised understanding surrounding this issue. This chapter will explore the role of globally distributed work and cross-national teams in a rare breed of MNCs originating from India and operating in the information technology (IT) industry. More particularly, this chapter will examine how Indian MNCs operating in the IT sector use their "onsite-offshore" business model to manage cross-national remote teams within their global network of subsidiaries to achieve international competitiveness. Based on in-depth interviews from senior directors based in the Australian subsidiaries of top five Indian IT MNCs, the findings suggest that Indian MNCs are born-global firms that effectively use their highly skilled, flexible and low-cost talented labour pool available in their home country, and combine it with their "onsite-offshore" business model to achieve international competitive advantage for business growth. The implications of this finding for MNC's use of CNTs and GDW are further discussed.

 

Chapter 3: Brazilian National Development Bank' impact on the steel industry's efficiency: a two-stage Malmquist model usage

Using a two-stage Malmquist Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA), this
paper aims to evaluate how the Brazilian National Development Bank
(BNDES) impacts the steel industry financial performance, as part of a industrial policy focused on fostering business competitiviness. To do so, a Malmquist Index decomposition and non-linear robust regression is carried out to test the impact from the contextual variables considered. At this index decomposition, technological

innovation can be evaluated by the frontier shift effect. In addition, the catching-up effect shows how fast firms are reducing their technology gap. The research hypothesis of a positive impact on the steel industry performance cannot be supported by the model results, which suggest a negative coefficient on the catching-up effect. A few examples of quantitative research on this theme can be found, but most have a theoretical and qualitative focus.  This paper contributes to this field of research by using a settled methodology to identify and measure the efficiency performance of the firms.

 

Chapter 4: New approaches to the analysis of competitiveness in the tourism sector. The necessary balance between growth and respect for the locals

The tourism industry represents for many countries a key sector in its economic growth. The achievements obtained after years of impulse policies have been very different, and in many occasions, the result is not compatible with the environmental and social sustainability of the environment. In fact, some destinations are beginning to suffer problems arising from the success of policies that have taken precedence over the growth of arrivals. In this context, this chapter reflects on the conditioning factors of competitiveness in the tourism sector. As a novelty, it is proposed to include as a competitiveness factor the social sustainability of tourism development and the commitment of the locals. Without sustainability, there is no long-term project, and within sustainability in the tourism sector, the social aspect has been neglected. As a consequence, competitiveness contributes to business growth in a sustained manner under pillars of innovation.

 

 

Chapter 5: Internal Barriers to the Brazilian Economy Achieving External Competitiveness

The Brazilian economy has been stagnant competitive and technologically for at least 30 years because she underestimated: (i) the role of the necessary prerequisites for an innovative environment - quality basic education system; tax and regulatory legislation without restrict the animal spirit of the entrepreneurs; R&D for generation and dissemination of the technical progress, and openness to the foreign market that allows she to complete domestic supply and learn to compete; (ii) the impact of interaction between them to promote a dynamic and thriving business environment. In this sense, it has built an internal environment that is refractory to efficiency, productivity and innovation. The aim of the paper is to point out how it came to this situation, and how the internal factors are inhibiting the constitution of an environment favorable to the technical progress and its immediate by product that is innovation. It will assume both as prerequisites for an economy to achieve the level of efficiency necessary to be competitive in her domestic Market and abroad markets, because competitiveness is the result of a continuous process of structural change; and to accommodate it the markets must meet structural and institutional conditions. It will show that availability of resources is not a sufficient condition for an economy to be developed; and that technological backwardness and competitive deficiency are a matter of choice.

 

Chapter 6: Technological Innovation and Exports: Effects on Firm Growth

It has been acknowledged that exporting and innovation activities become key performance drivers of firm growth. However, previous research has often neglected the perils of simultaneously developing both activities for resource-constrained firms. In this chapter, using a sample of 3,267 Spanish manufacturing firms over the period 2004 to 2014, we explore whether the effect of exports and technological innovation on firm growth differs depending on firm size.

 

Chapter 7: Service Business Growth: A Spinner Model application

In general, innovation and technology services are the key factor for business growth.  In service innovation, Knowledge-Intensive Business Services (KIBS) develop organizational competencies, creating and transferring knowledge intensive, which is crucial for survival and maintaining competitiveness in the rapid global growth. In this chapter, the effective factor of KIBS in service innovation has been introduced and two economies have been compared. This is a qualitative and quantitative research, using data collected from Web of Science (WOS) and Scopus data bases. The authors conducted an analysis applying the Spinner Model (2019) in an emerging in comparison to a developed country, Brazil and Canada, comparing the three dimensions: knowledge create, knowledge transfer and innovation for business growth. We expect that results can contribute for practitioners and researchers to support business growth using knowledge intensive services.