Showing 1 - 10 of 13
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009218273
actions beforehand). There are two fundamental strategies to manage innovation with unforeseeable uncertainty and complexity …: trial and error learning and selectionism. Trial and error learning involves a flexible (unplanned) adjustment of the … a rugged landscape. We compare the project payoff performance under trial and error learning and selectionism, based on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009197959
The results of an empirical study on the current usage of quantitative techniques for R&D project management in "Fortune 500" industrial firms are presented. A nonrandom sample of 40 respondents from 29 firms were selected to represent a mix of industrial sectors and geographic regions. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009218374
This study examined the relationship between communication and technological innovation. It focused on the patterns of … technological innovation. The objectives were to: (1) investigate the effects of communication on technological innovation at an … individual level, and (2) study the effects of interorganizational communication on technological innovation. Data were gathered …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009203805
Application of heuristic solution procedures to the practical problem of project scheduling has previously been studied by numerous researchers. However, there is little consensus about their findings, and the practicing manager is currently at a loss as to which scheduling rule to use....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009208460
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009208643
Antecedents of collaborative problem solving in R&D teams have received little attention. Furthermore, the relationship between this form of problem solving and R&D team productivity remains unarticulated. This lacuna is addressed in the present study be analyzing the relationships between task...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009197700
errors. Momentum arises from the investor gradually learning about the relative accuracy of the information sources and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009204338
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009208530
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009197792