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Value-based management in learning organizations through 'hard' and 'soft' managerial approaches: The case of Hewlett-Packard

Nymark, Søren - DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of … - 2000

'Learning organizations' enable companies to remove hierarchical levels and to introduce a flatter organizational structure, which can lead to reduced costs and increased productivity. A recent Danish study has proved coherence between a flat, integrative organizational structure and an...

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Selective Intervention and Internal HybridsInterpreting and Learning from the Rise and Decline of the Oticon Spaghetti Organization

Foss, Nicolai J. - DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of … - 2001

Infusing hierarchies with elements of market control has become a much-used way of simultaneously increasing entrepreneurialism and motivation in firms. However, this paper argues that such “internal hybrids,” particularly in their radical forms, are inherently hard to successfully design...

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Innovation surveys: A researcher's perspective

Tomlinson, Mark - DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of … - 2000

networks; the problems of service sector innovation and the comparability of services and manufacturing firms; and the problems …An earlier version of this paper was prepared for the joint OECD/Eurostat workshop on innovation surveys, OECD, Paris …, June 30th 1999. The paper addresses some issues about the nature of innovation surveys (particularly the new Community …

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Nascent Entrepreneurs, Innovation and Financing Constraints

Audretsch, David B.; Bönte, Werner; Mahagaonkar, Prashanth - DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of … - 2007

Innovative nascent entrepreneurs face the problem of obtaining finance, mainly due to information problems. We use new data on capital seeking start-ups allowing distinction between planning stage and early stage. Being innovative does not affect the probability of having external finance in the...

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Learning Paths to Offshore Outsourcing - From Cost Reduction to Knowledge Seeking

Maskell, Peter; Pedersen, Torben; Petersen, Bent; … - DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of … - 2005

in which the offshore outsourcing of a corporation goes through a sequence of stages towards sourcing for innovation … low-cost countries: the insourcer/vendor may not only offer cost advantages, but also quality improvement and innovation …

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Interactive Learning Spaces and Development Policies in Latin America

Arocena, Rodrigo; Sutz, Judith - DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of … - 2000

The emergent “learning economy” is truly global in the sense that it deeply affects the whole world. The emergence of “learning societies”, though, is a process that takes place only in some regions, the patterns followed by this highly complex social process being far from converging....

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Lead Users as Facilitators of Knowledge Sharing in Community Setting

Jeppesen, Lars Bo; Laursen, Keld - DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of … - 2007

This paper introduces a model of knowledge sharing of lead users located in a public and unrestricted community of users. While existing literature on knowledge sharing focuses on allocation and collaboration processes inside or among companies we extend this to the community level. We then...

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Making Consumer Knowledge Available and Useful the case of the Computer Games Industry

Jeppesen, Lars Bo - DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of … - 2001

It has been demonstrated that users occasionally innovate. However, it can now be observed that even end-consumers act as a source novel product designs. A case study of a firm, and “its” consumers - from the computer games industry - illustrates how sourcing of consumer knowledge has...

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Diversity of Innovative Strategy as a Source of Technological Performance

Llerena, Patrick; Oltra, Vanessa - DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of … - 2000

This paper explores the impact of diversity of innovative strategies of firms upon the industrial dynamics through a micro-simulation model. We consider two types of firms each one being characterised by a specific innovative strategy. Basically we assume that some cumulative firms adopt an...

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Technology Policy and Co-operative R&D the role of Relational Research Capacity

Cusmano, Lucia - DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of … - 2000

Evolutionary theories of technological change and industrial dynamics give primary importance to interaction between heterogeneous agents, endowed with complementary assets and competencies. Accordingly, support to co-operative R&D is central to technology policy, as a mean for increasing system...

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