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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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Retaining through Training; Even for OlderWorkers

van Ours, Jan; Picchio, M. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2011

This paper investigates whether on-the-job training has an effect on the employability of workers. Using data from the Netherlands we disentangle the true effect of training incidence from the spurious one determined by unobserved individual heterogeneity. We also take into account that there...

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Performance Pay, Training and Labor Mobility

Gielen, A. C. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2007

Market imperfections may cause firms and workers to under-invest in specific training. This paper shows that profit sharing may be a suitable instrument to enhance specific training investments, either by enhancing wage °exibility or by increasing the returns to training. As a result, profit...

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School Quality, Exam Performance and Career Choice

van soest, arthur; Dustmann, C.; Rajah, N. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 1998

The purpose of this paper is to examine the effects of school quality on performance in national exams and the career decision at age 16. We use micro data for the UK, which provides a rich set of variables on parental background, previous achievements, and community variables. We find that,...

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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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