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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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Pioneering Inventors or Thicket Builders: Which U.S. Firms Use Continuations in Patenting?

Hegde, Deepak; Mowery, David C.; Graham, Stuart J. H. - In: Management Science 55 (2009) 7, pp. 1214-1226

Why do firms use continuations in the prosecution of their patents? Motivated by the widespread use of continuations by U.S. firms and the prominence of this procedure in U.S. patent policy debates, we investigate the influence of corporate and patent characteristics on the use of continuations....

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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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Entry and Patenting in the Software Industry

Cockburn, Iain M.; MacGarvie, Megan J. - In: Management Science 57 (2011) 5, pp. 915-933

To what extent are firms kept out of a market by patents covering related technologies? Do patents held by potential entrants make it easier to enter markets? We estimate the empirical relationship between market entry and patents for 27 narrowly defined categories of software products during...

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When Do Employees Become Entrepreneurs?

Hellmann, Thomas - In: Management Science 53 (2007) 6, pp. 919-933

discourage innovation. Firms may reject profitable opportunities that fall outside of their core activities. If employees own the … intellectual property (IP), they may leave to do a start-up. The allocation of IP rights also affects the generation of innovation …. The external entrepreneurial environment is a complement to firm-internal innovation. If the external environment is …

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