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Formation of a firm's core competence and its development : an analysis with a special reference to North East England firms.

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Seddighi, Hamid and Mathew, Sony (2022) Formation of a firm's core competence and its development : an analysis with a special reference to North East England firms. European Journal Of Management Studies. ISSN 2183-4172

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Abstract

This paper provides remarkable insight into the structural components of a firm's core competence and its development via R&D activities for innovation and exporting activities.
We have used a positivist design and a deductive methodology. We have examined the extant literature developing a theoretical framework to empirically investigate the relationships between a firm's core competence, organisational learning, tacitness, dynamic capability, and R&D activities. To carry out this investigation, we have collected stratified sample data from 330 firms operating in Northeast England, a peripheral region of England.
We have found that there are indeed significant statistical relationships between these structural components, R&D activities and a firm's core competence, and this nexus is pertinent to innovation and exporting. Furthermore, it is found that Northeast England is significantly constrained by the lack of finance, technological capability, experts, and brain drain. Based on these findings, we propose a cooperative R&D framework to narrow down these constraints to assist firms in developing core competencies for innovation and exporting in peripheral regions.
There is an urgent need to investigate the incidence of knowledge-driven activities, R&D, the extent of innovation and exporting activities of firms operating in North East England, a peripheral region of the UK
This study provides an original and systematic investigation of the firm's core competence and its formation via key structural components for innovation and exporting within an empirical framework.

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Depositing User: Hamid Seddighi

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Item ID: 15099
ISSN: 2183-4172
URI: http://sure.sunderland.ac.uk/id/eprint/15099

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ORCID for Hamid Seddighi: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0003-3679-0545

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Date Deposited: 30 Sep 2022 08:41
Last Modified: 30 Sep 2022 08:41

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Author: Hamid Seddighi ORCID iD
Author: Sony Mathew
Author: Hamid Seddighi
Author: Sony Mathew

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Faculty of Business, Law and Tourism

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Business and Management

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