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potential suppliers generate and sell the most suitable innovation. Moreover, procurement by public agencies and large firms … the degree of competition between suppliers, as well as other more practical indirect ways to stimulate innovation. We … discuss the effects of standard setting activities by large, often public, procurers on innovation races. We evaluate how …
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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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We analyze the joint dynamics of religious beliefs, scientific progress and coalitional politics along both religious and economic lines. History offers many examples of the recurring tensions between science and organized religion, but as part of the paper’s motivating evidence we also...
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business services (KIBS) as leading vehicles for technological progress, of innovation as well as economic growth, all of which … on knowledge, they are located in urban areas and are considered as an essential element of the innovation system of big … cities. These stand simultaneously as suppliers of innovation capacity for small companies and for those companies where I …
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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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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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This paper investigates the ability of knowledge intensive business firms (KIBS) to engage in co-innovation with client … firms. Co-innovation is related to the competitive advantage of KIBS as knowledge creators and sources of innovation. We … apply a knowledge-based perspective where knowledge-related resources and learning capabilities explain why certain KIBS …
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The aim of our paper is to represent the intermediate research results of the case study of the Ydria Motors LL Company which produces semi products for household appliances. The company is a part of the ebmpapst international group and is opting for the ambitious goal of becoming the competency...
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inclination and learning tendency will determine how they respond to marketing and knowledge about mobile banking. The practical …
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