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Sonia Cruz Ros
New knowledge impacts on designing implementable innovative realities in emerging markets
In recent years, numerous studies have highlighted the role of organisational learning and the transfer of knowledge as a source of competitive advantage. Currently, the transfer of knowledge and learning in firms is a topic of utmost relevance. The learning process enables firms to acquire new knowledge and develop new capabilities to maintain their competitive advantage (Benavides-Espinosa and Roig-Dobón, 2011). In management literature, differences in relation to new knowledge provide us with different ways of looking at its relationship with learning.
Ecological signature of the end-Triassic biotic crisis: what do bivalves have to say?
In order to understand the causes underlying the Triassic-Jurassic (T/J) mass extinction, we tested different bivalve features for extinction selectivity, i.e. shell mineralogy, age at the Rhaetian and three main autoecologic traits (feeding mechanism, tiering and motility/attachment). Also, diversity and turnover rates throughout the Triassic and the Early Jurassic were analysed in detail. The dataset employed for this analysis was a precise database at genus level including data from Induan to Sinemurian times. Results point to a true mass extinction for bivalves around the T/J boundary. This extinction was not ageselective at the boundary. Certain analyses suggested that shell mineralogy…
Two Views for Understanding How TQM Fosters Learning and Value Innovation: Absorptive Capabilities and Action-Based Management
In the last decade some frameworks have tried to explain how to devise strategies for innovation in value by determining the needs of customers and non-customers, also creating new industries in which competition becomes irrelevant (Hax, The delta model. Reinventing your business strategy. New York: Springer, 2010; Kim and Mauborgne, Blue ocean strategy. Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 2005; Madhok and Marques 2013). These reference frameworks are based on a common set of principles: Value is created through the relationship with the customer (Priem, Acad Manag Rev 23; 219–235, 2007; Vargo and Lusch 2008); Strategy is considered to be a continuous process of exploring new opportuniti…
The contribution of dynamic marketing capabilities to service innovation and performance
Innovation can become a sustainable competitive advantage for service firms. However, there is lack of empirical research on how marketing capabilities support innovation. This study differentiates between operational and dynamic marketing capabilities, the latter related to strategic marketing, marketing planning and market knowledge skills. Based on a sample of 152 service firms, the results show that operational marketing capabilities influence on those dynamic marketing capabilities. Strategic marketing and marketing planning capabilities impact positively on firm's performance while market knowledge capabilities impact positively on service innovation.
Relación entre el enfoque de gestión de la calidad y el desempeño organizativo. Una aproximación desde la perspectiva basada en los recursos.
Esta tesis doctoral se centra en el estudio de los diferentes enfoques de gestión de la calidad y sus repercusiones sobre el desempeño organizativo tomando como referencia la perspectiva basada en los recursos y capacidades. Se comparan el enfoque de aseguramiento de la calidad y la gestión de la calidad total analizando en profundidad los principios y las técnicas operativas de la calidad que caracterizan a cada uno de estos enfoques. La segunda variable clave objeto de esta investigación es el desempeño organizativo, siendo el principal objetivo de este trabajo determinar si la implantación de un enfoque u otro repercute de manera diferente sobre los resultados empresariales. La principal…
Bivalves and evolutionary resilience: Old skills and new strategies to recover from the P/T and T/J extinction events
Diversity dynamics among bivalves during the Triassic and Early Jurassic provides the opportunity to analyse the recovery patterns after two mass extinctions: Permian/Triassic and Triassic/Jurassic (T/J). The results presented here are based on a newly compiled worldwide genus-level database and are contrasted to the main morphological characters of the different taxonomical (orders and their constituent families and genera) and ecological groups. Many of such morphological characters are innovations appearing during the time span considered. Diversity and evolutionary rates were assessed and compared between these groups. During the Early Triassic there was a slow recovery, dominated by ep…
Coping between crises: Early Triassic–early Jurassic bivalve diversity dynamics
The Triassic is bounded by two of the most severe biotic crises, but nevertheless this time was, for bivalves, both a recovery and a diversification period, and a moment to fully exploit some of their evolutionary novelties. Just how and when this was achieved is analyzed in this paper, which covers Induan to Sinemurian bivalve diversity, based on a newly compiled database. Taxonomic diversity and ecospace dynamics are examined separately. Diversity and evolutionary rates were assessed, extinction selectivity was tested using a resampling algorithm, and cohort analysis was used to study extinction patterns. During the Early Triassic most bivalve genera were survivors from the Permian and th…