Author: jeromekatz

Podcasts : Business : NPR

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Guy Raz dives into the stories behind some of the world’s best known companies. How I Built This weaves a narrative journey about innovators, entrepreneurs and idealists—and the movements they built. The series of broadcasts is titled, “How I Built This.” It is all about entrepreneurs’ stories. So I went to the website: https://ift.tt/2rIRnwh I have found good leads for any number of new vignettes. After selecting each of the broadcasts that seem appropriate, I did a Google search for the entrepreneur’s name and for the company name. So far I have found at least 4 corroborating articles in various publications, such as Inc., Fortune, Entrepreneur, and the City Business Journals for each of the stories that I have considered.

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On the contingent value of IT-based capabilities for the competitive advantage of SMEs: Mechanisms and empirical evidence – ScienceDirect

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This article assesses the value of the capabilities developed through the use of Information Technology (IT) in Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs), by analysing whether these capabilities are a determinant of the intra-industry differential in their performance. Our work makes two principal contributions to the understanding of the value of IT. Differentiates internal IT from external IT capabilities.

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The CAGE around cyberspace? How digital innovations internationalize in a virtual world – ScienceDirect

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This paper analyzes some salient factors affecting the internationalization speed of digital innovations by tracking international penetrations of 127 apps at Apple’s app store. Although apps are globally available via online platforms, their international penetration is still subject to cultural, administrative, geographic, and economic (CAGE) distances that act as user adoption barriers to impede app internationalization.

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