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Mobility, Skills, and the Michigan Non-Compete Experiment

Marx, Matt; Strumsky, Deborah; Fleming, Lee - In: Management Science 55 (2009) 6, pp. 875-889

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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Competing Through Cooperation: The Organization of Standard Setting in Wireless Telecommunications

Leiponen, Aija Elina - In: Management Science 54 (2008) 11, pp. 1904-1919

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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Optimal Search for Product Information

Branco, Fernando; Sun, Monic; Villas-Boas, J. Miguel - In: Management Science 58 (2012) 11, pp. 2037-2056

(continuous-time) model of gradual learning, in which consumers incur search costs to learn further product information, and … of the product, heterogeneous importance of attributes, endogenous intensity of search, and social learning. <i …

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50th Anniversary Article: Organizational Behavior, Strategy, Performance, and Design in Management Science

Boudreau, John W. - In: Management Science 50 (2004) 11, pp. 1463-1476

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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Profiles of Product Innovators Among Large U.S. Manufacturers

Capon, Noel; Farley, John U.; Lehmann, Donald R.; … - In: Management Science 38 (1992) 2, pp. 157-169

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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Information Cost and Innovation Adoption Policies

Jensen, Richard - In: Management Science 34 (1988) 2, pp. 230-239

A firm's manager must decide whether to adopt an innovation of uncertain profitability or to obtain some information … and then decide to adopt or reject the innovation. Obtaining information can involve either waiting to receive some …

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Pioneering Strategies and Small Firms, an Australia-UK Comparison

LOWE, JULIAN - In: Prometheus 15 (1997) 1, pp. 125-135

scale intensive than in earlier stages of the innovation process. The UK and Australian economies present an interesting …

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Innovation and the Patent Attorney

MACDONALD, STUART; LEFANG, BERNARD - In: Prometheus 15 (1997) 3, pp. 329-343

quantifiable—innovation, and the competitiveness that is assumed to spring from innovation—on the grounds that these, too, are … outputs of research. The part that patents actually play in innovation has become confused with their representational role … the patent attorney in innovation would seem to be a reasonable measure of the intensification of the patent-innovation …

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