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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

A corporation’s offshore outsourcing may be seen as the result of a discrete, strategic decision taken in response to an increasing pressure from worldwide competition. However, empirical evidence of a representative cross-sector sample of international Danish firms indicates that offshore...

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The Structure of Cluster Knowledge Networks Uneven, not Pervasive and Collective

Giuliani, Elisa - DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of … - 2005

by showing two empirical properties of the cluster learning process: first, that the structure of the knowledge network … in a cluster is related with the heterogeneous distribution of firm knowledge bases and, second, that business … interactions and inter-firm knowledge flows are not highly co-occurring phenomena. In particular, this paper highlights how the …

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Multilevel Population Thinking The History and the Use of the Concept in Economics

Zinovyeva, Natalia - DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of … - 2004

The concept of multilevel population thinking suggests looking at evolution of any system of entities as at a multilevel process with selection forces operating on populations of units as well as on populations of groups of these units. The concept has allowed explaining some phenomena in...

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How Journal Rankings can suppress Interdisciplinary Research – A Comparison between Innovation Studies and Business & Management

Rafols, Ismael; Leydesdorff, Loet; O'Hare, Alice; … - DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of … - 2011

This study provides new quantitative evidence on how journal rankings can disadvantage interdisciplinary research during research evaluations. Using publication data, it compares the degree of interdisciplinarity and the research performance of innovation studies units with business and...

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Alignment of Innovation Policy Objectives: a demand side perspective

Freitas, Isabel Maria Bodas; Tunzelmann, Nick von - DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of … - 2013

This study is aimed at a better understanding of the interaction between design of public support for innovation at different levels of policy-making, and firms’ innovation activities. How do firms respond to the incentives offered by various policies? We propose an analytical framework to...

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Fundamental Fields of: Post-Schumpeterian Evolutionary Economics

Andersen, Esben Sloth - DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of … - 2008

Although the branch of economics that deals with economic evolution has become established during the last couple of decades, its aims and potentials can most easily be understood on the background of the work of early pioneers. Joseph A. Schumpeter’s contribution not only analysed capitalist...

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Proximities and Innovation Evidence from the Indian IT Industry in Bangalore

Taeube, Florian Arun - DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of … - 2004

Much has been written on the success of the Indian software industry, enumerating systemic factors like first-class higher education and research institutions, both public and private; low labour costs, stimulating (state) policies etc. However, although most studies analysing the ‘Indian’...

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Population Thinking and Evolutionary Economic Analysis: Exploring Marshall's Fable of the Trees

Andersen, Esben Sloth - DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of … - 2004

It is increasingly recognised that population thinking is a basic characteristic of evolutionary economics. By taking its starting point in what is here called Marshall's fable of the trees, the paper demonstrates that there are several forms of population thinking. The most basic form is...

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The Flexible Company Innovation, Work Organisation and Human Ressource Management

Lund, Reinhard; Gjerding, Allan Næs - DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of … - 1996

This paper analyses the DISKO survey data on 1,900 firms within the Danish private business sector in terms of an index which classifies the surveyed firms according to smaller and higher degrees of flexibility. The classification reveals a number of important differences between more or less...

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Organisational Innovation in the Danish Private Business Sector

Gjerding, Allan Næs - DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of … - 1996

This paper reviews the first results from a large Danish survey on organisational innovation within the private business sector. The 1,900 surveyed firms are divided in two groups of an almost equal size according to whether or not they have undertaken organisational innovation during the period...

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