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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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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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Network-Independent Partner Selection and the Evolution of Innovation Networks

Baum, Joel A. C.; Cowan, Robin; Jonard, Nicolas - In: Management Science 56 (2010) 11, pp. 2094-2110

joint learning and innovation to be possible, and thus for an alliance to be feasible. The striking result is that, despite … innovation networks. To marshal evidence in this regard, we design a simple model of partner selection in which firms ally for … the purpose of learning and innovating, and in doing so create an industry network. We abstract completely from network …

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Interfirm Collaboration Networks: The Impact of Large-Scale Network Structure on Firm Innovation

Schilling, Melissa A.; Phelps, Corey C. - In: Management Science 53 (2007) 7, pp. 1113-1126

The structure of alliance networks influences their potential for knowledge creation. Dense local clustering provides information transmission capacity in the network by fostering communication and cooperation. Nonredundant connections contract the distance between firms and give the network...

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Lone Inventors as Sources of Breakthroughs: Myth or Reality?

Singh, Jasjit; Fleming, Lee - In: Management Science 56 (2010) 1, pp. 41-56

Are lone inventors more or less likely to invent breakthroughs? Recent research has attempted to resolve this question by considering the variance of creative outcome distributions. It has implicitly assumed a symmetric thickening or thinning of both tails, i.e., that a greater probability of...

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Bilateral Collaboration and the Emergence of Innovation Networks

Cowan, Robin; Jonard, Nicolas; Zimmermann, Jean-Benoit - In: Management Science 53 (2007) 7, pp. 1051-1067

In this paper, we model the formation of innovation networks as they emerge from bilateral decisions. In contrast to … a bilateral collaboration is determined by cognitive, relational, and structural embeddedness. Innovation results from …). Repeated alliance formation creates a network. Two features are central to the innovation process: how firms pool their …

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