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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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The Adoption Time Period for Some Transportation Innovations

Ettlie, John E.; Vellenga, David B. - In: Management Science 25 (1979) 5, pp. 429-443

the time lag in decision making over the adoption and implementation stages for innovation. For a sample of 32 innovations … next was the cost of the innovation (R<sup>2</sup> = 0.23, p < 0.01), and a total of four valid predictors (cost …, complexity, of the innovation, organizational risk-taking climate, and union reaction) account for about 42% of the variance (R …

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Erratum to "The Adoption Time Period for Some Transportation Innovations"

Ettlie, John E. - In: Management Science 26 (1980) 12, pp. 1285-1286

Erratum to the author's paper "The Adoption Time Period for Some Transportation Innovations," Management Sci., Vol. 25, No. 5 (1979), pp. 429--443.

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Search Theory and the Manufacturing Progress Function

Muth, John F. - In: Management Science 32 (1986) 8, pp. 948-962

A theory based upon random search within a fixed population of technological possibilities is used to explain the manufacturing progress function. The theory is consistent with the power function relation between unit costs and cumulative output that has frequently been observed. It is also...

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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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The Impact of Information Technology on Academic Scientists' Productivity and Collaboration Patterns

Ding, Waverly W.; Levin, Sharon G.; Stephan, Paula E.; … - In: Management Science 56 (2010) 9, pp. 1439-1461

This study investigates the impact of information technology (IT) on productivity and collaboration patterns in academe. Our data combine information on the diffusion of two noteworthy innovations in IT--BITNET and the Domain Name System (DNS)--with career-history data on research-active life...

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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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