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This paper presents a lexical definition of firms' flexibility and its operationalization as used in the DISKO survey … understanding of the firm’s flexibility and its effectiveness and how their explanations draw upon elements from the … conclusions regarding the problem of operationalization of flexibility. Results from the questionnaire survey are given as …
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which classifies the surveyed firms according to smaller and higher degrees of flexibility. The classification reveals a … organisational innovation to a larger extent than the less flexible firms and consequently are more inclined to employ new work … cooperative relationships. Finally, there is a strong positive correlation between increasing degrees of flexibility and …
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flexibility and combine technical and organisational innovation in order to meet this challenge. However, 1/3 of the N …This paper reviews the first results from a large Danish survey on organisational innovation within the private … have undertaken organisational innovation during the period of 1993-95, i.e. innovative Y-firms and non-innovative N …
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, agreement and disagreement between management and employees and their shop stewards regarding flexibility measures, and the shop … flexibility. These confrontations included the change towards wages by results and qualifications, because of disagreements on …
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acquired R&D on innovation inclination. …
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innovation through experimentation. It investigates the internal vs. market economies of scale and scope related to projects, as …-organized innovation projects by virtue of localized project ecologies and local labour markets of leaders and boundary spanners. It …
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Modularization refers to the opportunity for mixing-and-matching of components in a modular product design in which the standard interfaces between components are specified to allow for a range of variation in components to be substituted in a product architecture. It is through...
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The paper analyses the organization of the new product development process at FIAT from a resource-based perspective. The focus is on organizational resources for integrating dispersed specialist knowledge required in the development of complex products. The analysis shows how the application of...
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This paper is an empirical test of the hypothesis that the appropriateness of different business strategies is conditional on the firm’s distance to the industry frontier. We use data on four 2-digit high-tech manufacturing industries in the US over the period 1972-1999, and apply...
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not just innovation, accumulation or distribution, but their structural compatibility over time. Many different growth …
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