A multi-level study of competitiveness, comparative advantage and intermediary functions : a case study of the South Australian Medical Devices Industry Sector /
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2021
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Vnuk, Rowena
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An alliance may be understood as ‘specialist’ intermediary organisations (IOs) capable of brokering key relationships between two or more parties. Yet intermediary organisations must achieve entrepreneurial outcomes under economic uncertainty and are known to be ambiguous with low goal convergence. Despite high expectations of IOs/SIOs as change agents, little is known about how (and why) SIOs contribute to, and participate in, a transitioning industry sector as real-world phenomena and how (and in what ways) SIOs involve and innovate themselves under uncertain conditions. Critical realist illuminative evaluation findings indicate that a multi-level understanding of competitiveness and comparative advantage as real, actual and contingent abstract concepts coupled with dynamic characteristics enables better understanding of SIOs and their contributions to a transitioning industry sector.
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University of South Australia. UniSA Business.
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Thesis (PhD(Business and Management))--University of South Australia, 2021.
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Copyright 2021 Rowena Vnuk
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1 ethesis ([330] pages) :
colour illustrations.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 266-277)
colour illustrations.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 266-277)
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