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Whereas a number of studies have considered the implications of employee mobility, comparatively little research has considered institutional factors governing the ability of employees to move from one firm to another. This paper explores a legal constraint on mobility--employee non-compete...
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This study examines cooperative standard setting in wireless telecommunications. Focusing on the competition among firms to influence formal standardization, the roles of standard-setting committees, private alliances, and industry consortia are highlighted. The empirical context is Third...
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This article provides a personal perspective on the themes and topics that have emerged in research published by the department of organizational behavior, in the first 50 years of Management Science. A review of articles accepted by the department suggests several themes that reflect broad...
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subjects is consistent with the game-theoretic predictions. With the help of the experience-weighted attraction (EWA) learning … model proposed by Camerer and Ho (1999), we show that adaptive learning can account for the investment behavior of our … subjects.We find that the EWA learning model tracks the investment decisions of our subjects well, whether we hold out trials …
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This paper identifies four groups among 113 Fortune 500 manufacturers that approach innovation quite differently. The …. Both product innovation and financial performance differ significantly over the groups, and a group of 42 firms that invest … heavily in innovation perform best financially. A smaller group of firms that are not innovative but which follow a strategy …
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In this paper, we use data from the Carnegie Mellon Survey on industrial R&D to evaluate for the U.S. manufacturing sector the influence of "public"(i.e., university and government R&D lab) research on industrial R&D, the role that public research plays in industrial R&D, and the pathways...
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's "revealed beliefs" about future performance and standard measures of corporate innovation. We begin by developing a career … underestimate the probability of failure, are more likely to pursue innovation, and that this effect is larger in more competitive … their firms in a new technological direction. This paper was accepted by Kamalini Ramdas, entrepreneurship and innovation. …
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(cheaper, faster, and better) and examine the impact of each on the timing of the firm's innovation decision. Contrary to …
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scale intensive than in earlier stages of the innovation process. The UK and Australian economies present an interesting …
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Australia was a latecomer to industrialisation, dependent on the importation of 'foreign' technology to help 'catch up'. While such a strategy can lead to entrenched structural dependence, a dynamic variant of product cycle theory suggests that windows of opportunity for genuine catching up are...
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