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Beyond Penrose : A Cognitive Theory of the Firm

Nooteboom, B. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2006

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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Language Skills and Labor Market Performance of Immigrants in the Netherlands

van Ours, Jan; Yao, Y. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2015

Many immigrants in the Netherlands have poor Dutch language skills. They face problems in speaking and reading Dutch. Our paper investigates how these prob-<br/>lems affect their labor market performance in terms of employment, hours of work<br/>and wages. We find that for female immigrants language...

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Identification and Estimation of Economic Models of Outmigration using Panel Attrition

Bellemare, C. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2004

Because their departures are difficultly observed, little is known about the performance of immigrants who leave their adoptive homeland.This paper shows conditions under which the (conditional) outmigration probability, work probability and the expected earnings of outmigrants are...

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Derivation of Monotone Decision Models from Non-Monotone Data

Daniëls, H.A.M.; Velikova, M.V. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2003

The objective of data mining is the extraction of knowledge from databases. In practice, one often encounters … difficulties with models that are constructed purely by search, without incorporation of knowledge about the domain of application …

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Integrating Economic Knowledge in Data Mining Algorithms

Daniëls, H.A.M.; Feelders, A.J. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2001

The assessment of knowledge derived from databases depends on many factors. Decision makers often need to convince … others about the correctness and effectiveness of knowledge induced from data.The current data mining techniques do not … contribute much to this process of persuasion.Part of this limitation can be removed by integrating knowledge from experts in the …

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Decentralization, Interdependence and Performance Measurement System Design : Sequences and Priorities

Bouwens, Jan; Abernethy, M.; van Lent, L.A.G.M. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2001

of those choices, namely, subunit interdependencies and knowledge transfer costs.We test our predictions with a …

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The Financing of Innovation : Learning and Stopping

Bergemann, D.; Hege, U. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2001

This paper considers the financing of a research project under uncertainty about the time of completion and the probability of eventual success.The uncertainty about future success gradually diminishes with the arrival of additional funding.The entrepreneur controls the funds and can divert...

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Embodied Cognition, Organization and Innovation

Nooteboom, B. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2006

This chapter explains and employs a constructivist, interactionist theory of knowledge that has come to be known as the … distance between firms for innovation by interaction. …

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Transaction Costs, Innovation and Learning

Nooteboom, B. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2006

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