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Economists studying innovation and technological change have made significant progress toward understanding firms …' profit incentives as drivers of innovation. However, innovative performance in firms should also depend heavily on the …
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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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Every organization is confronted by employee errors. Situational learning orientation may mitigate an employee …'s tendency to err. A situational learning orientation refers to the extent to which employees share the perception that there is … present study suggests that situational learning orientation interacts with two other organizational factors--autonomy and …
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In many settings, firms rely on independent contractors, or freelancers, for the provision of certain services. The benefits of such relationships for both firms and workers are often understood in terms of increased flexibility. Less understood is the impact of freelancing on individual...
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errors. Momentum arises from the investor gradually learning about the relative accuracy of the information sources and …
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Total productivity learning curve results are reported for several departments of an electronic equipment manufacturer … behavioral and cognitive determinants of considerable diversity across departments in learning curve parameters. The field … investigation suggested that three forms of shared learning are critical to manufacturing productivity improvement: (1) sharing …
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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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accepted by Kamalini Ramdas, entrepreneurship and innovation.</i> …
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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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