Month: July 2023

Handbook on China and Globalization

Handbook on China and Globalization

The Handbook on China and Globalization is an excellent guide for understanding the trends, challenges and opportunities facing China through globalization, this Handbook answers the pertinent questions regarding the globalization process and China’s influence on the world.

Enrique co-authored Chapter 3 (Chinese innovation and entrepreneurship going abroad: from counterfeits and copycats to innovation exporters) with Dickie Liang-Hong Ke.

  • Publication Date: 22/02/2019
  • Language: English
  • Pages: 520
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Creating a Cluster around a Clown: The Montreal Circus Cluster

Creating a Cluster around a Clown: The Montreal Circus Cluster

The case examines the situation of Cirque du Soleil in its early years. Despite initial success, Guy Laliberté, founder and CEO of Cirque du Soleil, is facing a number of challenges, including aspects such as increasing competition, access to the pool of talent, location and growth. All of these elements are in Laliberté’s mind just before meeting with Jean Doré, the mayor of Montreal. Laliberté thinks that it will be a great opportunity to ask for support, but he doesn’t know exactly what to ask for. At the same time, Doré is preparing the city’s strategic plan and is wondering whether Montreal could benefit from Cirque du Soleil’s image and success. He does, however, have some lingering concerns.

  • Publication Date: 13/09/2019
  • Language: English
  • Pages: 14
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The Kind of Creative Thinking That Fueled WeChat’s Success

The Kind of Creative Thinking That Fueled WeChat’s Success

WeChat, the messaging app, dominates daily life in China. We conducted an in-depth study of the company, through exclusive interviews with 15 executives, including founder Allen Zhang. We argue that WeChat’s success wasn’t achieved through technological superiority, but through the vision – or grand design – of Zhang. We explore how the grand design approach to innovation – where a new product or service emerges fully-formed in the mind’s eye of the innovator before it is developed and commercialized – can be more effective than design thinking under certain circumstances, most notably when a market is in its early formative stage of development

  • Publication Date: 29/10/2019
  • Language: English
  • Pages: N/A
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Mapping research trends on strategic agility over the past 25 years: insights from a bibliometric approach

Mapping research trends on strategic agility over the past 25 years: insights from a bibliometric approach

This article studies what had been published on the topic of strategic agility, providing an understanding of where the topic sat and what key gaps existed. The article shows that strategic agility is a concept that had not reached maturity nor consensus.

  • Publication Date: 23/04/2021
  • Language: English
  • Pages: 20
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