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Enterprise Systems Adoption and Firm Performance in Europe: The Role of Innovation

Zand, Fardad; Beers, Cees van - DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of … - 2010

innovation in the process of value creation from ES investments. Empirical data on the adoption of Enterprise Resource Planning … Document Management System (DMS) is used to investigate the effects on product and process innovation, revenue, productivity … show that all ES categories significantly increase the likelihood of product and process innovation. Most of ES categories …

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The Effect of Corporate Environmental Performance on Financial Outcomes – Profits, Revenues and Costs: Evidence from the Czech Transition Economy

Earnhart, Dietrich; Lizal, Ludomir - DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of … - 2010

This empirical study analyzes the effect of corporate environmental performance on financial performance in a transition economy. In particular, it assesses whether good environmental performance affects profits, and if so, in which direction. Then the study decomposes profits into revenues and...

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Mobility of Skills and Ideas

Martiarena, Aloña - DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of … - 2012

This paper examines and tests how the composition of human capital that workers acquire on-the-job determines the decision to found spinoffs and the know-how that entrepreneurs exploit in the new firm. I argue that given the different degree of specialisation in small and large firms,...

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Dynamic Capabilities and their Indirect Impact on Firm Performance

Protogerou, Aimilia; Caloghirou, Yannis; Lioukas, Spyros - DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of … - 2008

This paper investigates the relationship between dynamic capabilities and firm performance. In particular it addresses the question of whether dynamic capabilities impact directly or indirectly on performance. Using data from manufacturing firms, the paper articulates and measures dynamic...

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Do Differences Make a Difference? The Impact of Human Capital Diversity, Experience and Compensation on Firm Performance in Engineering Consulting

Laursen, Keld; Mahnke, Volker; Vejrup-Hansen, Per - DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of … - 2005

The paper investigates the relationship between human capital characteristics and firm performance in engineering consulting. Because general experience, firm-specific human capital and diversity carry specific costs and benefits we hypothesize curvilinear (taking inverted U-shapes) relations to...

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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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