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Since the 1990s, Japanese firms have sought to expand their capacity for innovation by incorporating Western management … successful — Japanese firms are presently at the forefront of technological and service innovation in areas such as digital … features: the vertical value chain model, cross-industry collaboration, dynamic knowledge integration, and strategic innovation …
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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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While search is normally modelled by economists purely in terms of decisions over making observations, this paper models it as a process in which information is gained through feedback from innovatory product launches. The information gained can then be used to decide whether to exercise real...
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Entrepreneurship involves innovation and uncertainty. We outline a theory of entrepreneurship, which highlights the … importance of social networks in promoting innovation and reducing uncertainty. Our findings suggest that this “social” aspect of …
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state of long-term expectations that drive firms’ decisions to search for innovation and to investment in R&D. The paper … takes the post-Keynesian theory as reference, associating it with the neo-Schumpeterian analysis of innovation dynamics … type of innovation, while incremental innovations are more dependent on tacit knowledge about the current market conditions …
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Many papers have been written about the effect of firm size on innovativeness, revealing a positive, a negative or a mixed impact. To this day, the so-called Schumpeterian hypothesis of the above-average innovativeness of large firms has neither been confirmed nor rejected, often because of...
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The main purpose of this study is to examine the impact of strategic alliances on shareholder wealth while also considering the role of firm growth opportunity. By focusing on Taiwan Stock Exchange-listed firms that announced the formation of such alliances from 1996 to 2000, a sample of 140...
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As a consequence of economic reforms, the Indian manufacturing sector faces a variety of technology related challenges. It not only has to quickly develop world-class manufacturing capabilities, but also gear up to develop new products and processes. In this paper we analyse the technology...
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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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