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Progress in our understanding of the role of knowledge in the economy, based on Nelson and Winter's book published in …
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innovation at the sectoral level. Despite considerable interest in David and Foray's (1995) work on the codification of knowledge …This paper explores ongoing debates about the role that codified forms of knowledge play in fostering firms' and … and the changing nature of innovation due to the use of information and communication technologies, there are relatively …
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This paper uses a cognitive theory of firms and organizations, with a focus on learning and innovation.Here, cognition … collaboration between firms, for learning and innovation, in the combination of capabilities between rather than within the firm …
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Persistent productivity gains to rural-urban migrants have been documented by a number of researchers. One interpretation of this result is that individuals learn higher value skills in cities than they would have learned in less dense areas. Another explanation for this result, however, is that...
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. This paper investigates a dual facet of the exploratory component of R&D activities with regards to innovation failures …: while exploration increases firms’ exposure to failure, it also provides learning opportunities to curve down innovation … failures. This paper contributes to organizational learning and innovation management research by proposing that firms …
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The paper analyzes the contemporary organizational restructuring of production and work within firms. We emphasize the shift from a Tayloristic organization of work (characterized by significant specialization by tasks) to a holistic organization (featuring job rotation, integration of tasks and...
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-interest, knowledge, and ideology in public opinion formation? And how do people learn about economic issues? Using a new, specially … important. Knowledge about the economy ranks somewhere in between. …
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I examine the relationship between the characteristics of firm knowledge in terms of capital, diversity and relatedness …, and productivity. Panel data regression models suggest that unlike knowledge diversity, knowledge capital and knowledge … knowledge are more productive than those based on unrelated knowledge because the cost of co-ordinating productive activities …
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Community support services (CSSs) enable persons coping with health or social problems to maintain the highest possible level of social functioning and quality of life. Access to these services is challenging because of the multiplicity of small agencies providing these services and the lack of...
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