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speed of accumulation of the acquired scientific knowledge regarding absorptive capacity. To contribute to narrowing this …
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The knowledge spillover theory of entrepreneurship seeks to explain the sources of entrepreneurship and its … consequences with regard to economic performance. This paper extends this theory and links it to innovation performance. We propose … that a high rate of entrepreneurship facilitates the process of turning knowledge into innovative products while it has no …
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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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world in which only a minority with the right knowledge and skills--the right "human capital"--reap the majority of the … vicious one, as a lack of human capital leads to family breakdown, unemployment, dysfunction, and further erosion of knowledge …
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Research evidence confirms that the accumulation of knowledge contributes to the competitive advantage of firms. In the … strategy consulting industry, one of the most knowledge-intensive professional services industries, however, established firms … that exploited their knowledge accumulation by adding exploitative consulting practices have found their performance has …
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Managing through projects has become important for generating new knowledge to cope with technological and market … discontinuities. This paper examines how the fit between the creation of technological and market knowledge and important project … knowledge contributed to the failure of those NBD-projects that required new market knowledge as well. The findings indicate …
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Using two different samples of salespeople, the authors investigate how a combination of general mental ability (GMA) and specific skills and capabilities (social competence and thinking styles) allows salespeople to reach their sales goals. The study finds evidence for an interaction between...
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world in which only a minority with the right knowledge and skills--the right "human capital"--reap the majority of the … vicious one, as a lack of human capital leads to family breakdown, unemployment, dysfunction, and further erosion of knowledge …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010604617
knowledge portal facilitates the diffusion of knowledge among rather loosely coupled and often disconnected innovation projects … product-oriented to a problemoriented innovation structure. The set up of a platform and knowledge portal around agro …This article addresses the emergence of networks of practice and the role of knowledge sharing via knowledge portals …
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Posing a major challenge to economic orthodoxy, <i>Imperfect Knowledge Economics</i> asserts that exact models of … attention to the inherent limits of economists' knowledge, they introduce a new approach to economic analysis: Imperfect … Knowledge Economics (IKE). IKE rejects exact quantitative predictions of individual decisions and market outcomes in favor of …
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