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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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Navel Gazing: Academic Inbreeding and Scientific Productivity

Horta, Hugo; Veloso, Francisco M.; Grediaga, Rócio - In: Management Science 56 (2010) 3, pp. 414-429

The practice of having Ph.D. graduates employed by the university that trained them, commonly called "academic inbreeding," has long been suspected to be damaging to scholarly practices and achievement. Despite this perception, existing work on academic inbreeding is scarce and mostly...

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Manpower Flows and the Innovation Process

Ettlie, John E. - In: Management Science 26 (1980) 11, pp. 1086-1095

A model of the causes and impacts of manpower flows in the innovation process is developed in this paper. A review of … appears to be the relationship between information flows, manpower flows, and importance of the innovation (radical vs …

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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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Uncertainty, Social Location and Influence in Decision Making: A Sociometric Analysis

Tushman, Michael L.; Romanelli, Elaine - In: Management Science 29 (1983) 1, pp. 12-23

This research investigates the relative impacts of formal status and informal communication roles on influence in administrative and technical decision making. While external information enters the organization via boundary spanning individuals, the exercise of influence at lower levels of the...

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Conditions That Shape the Learning Curve: Factors That Increase the Ability and Opportunity to Learn

Wiersma, Eelke - In: Management Science 53 (2007) 12, pp. 1903-1915

Prior studies examining factors that influence the learning curve mainly focus on settings in which firms adopt new … they are further down the learning curve. To gain insight into factors that enhance learning in this situation, I examine … variation in tasks, measured by product heterogeneity. In addition, I hypothesize that opportunities for learning are created …

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Forecast Accuracy Uncertainty and Momentum

Han, Bing; Hong, Dong; Warachka, Mitch - In: Management Science 55 (2009) 6, pp. 1035-1046

errors. Momentum arises from the investor gradually learning about the relative accuracy of the information sources and …

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Shared Learning

Adler, Paul S. - In: Management Science 36 (1990) 8, pp. 938-957

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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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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