Questions from last time

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Questions from last time
Moving to the Next Level A Scoping Study
Finding literature are they by key word searches
or by word of mouth both ways keyword searches
and recommended papers Where are you finding
the literature journal articles principally and
web resources Databases - Emerald, Business
Source Premier (EBSCO host), Proquest, Google
scholar Websites - Dti, AIM, Institute of
development studies and the Institute for
manufacturing Conference papers SMESME and
Euroma 2005
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Questions from last time (cont)
In what way are you finding out if they are
moving up the chain local knowledge of
companies required to identify companies moving
up the value chain Deadlines are very tight, as
they are the end of January 2006 Agreed!
Extended time on literature review with 1st draft
completed end of March 2006
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Big Questions
1) In the case studies how would we separate out
the effect of moving up the value chain from
other variables? 2) Is value add the best measure
to use at the firm level for this study? 3) What
would a good scoping study achieve?