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Organizational and Innovative Flexibility Mechanisms and their Impact upon Organizational Effectiveness
Lund, Reinhard - DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of … - 1998
This paper presents a lexical definition of firms' flexibility and its operationalization as used in the DISKO survey of 1900 Danish private firms. This operationalization is highlighted by data from a highly flexible firm which was visited in 1997 as part of a follow-up upon the questionnaire...
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Organizing Innovation Complementarities between Cross-Functional Teams
Love, James H.; Roper, Stephen; Mangiarotti, Giovanni - DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of … - 2006
Cross-functional teams play a potentially important part in the innovation process enabling knowledge sharing, the … complementarities which may arise when cross-functional teams are used in different elements of the innovation process in UK and German … manufacturing plants. Using optimal combinations of cross-functional teams in the innovation process increases innovation success in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005627323
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Searching Low and High What Types of Firms use Universities as a Source of Innovation?
Laursen, Keld; Salter, Ammon - DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of … - 2003
link between the universities and industrial innovation, and the role of different search strategies in influencing the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005627360
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Persistence of Innovation Stylised Facts and Panel Data Evidence
Peters, Bettina - DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of … - 2006
This paper investigates whether firms innovate persistently or discontinuously over time using an innovation panel data … set on German manufacturing and service firms for the period 1994–2002. It turns out that innovation behaviour is … results show that past innovation experience is an important determinant for manufacturing as well as for service sector firms …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005627371
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A Schumpeterian Perspective on Service Innovation
Drejer, Ina - DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of … - 2002
dominate economic analyses, including innovation studies. As a reaction to this a new strand of service innovation studies has … emerged within the last decade. These studies do not aim to compare innovation in services directly with innovation in … manufacturing, rather they aim a studying distinctive features of service innovation. This has among other things resulted in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005627386
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On the Marshall - Jacobs Controversy It takes two to tango
Panne, Gerben van der; Beers, Cees van - DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of … - 2006
The literature is inconclusive as to whether Marshallian specialization or Jacobian diversification externalities favour regional innovativeness. The specialization argument poses that regional specialization towards a particular industry improves innovativeness in that industry. Regional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005627387
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Organisational Change, Innovation and Human Resource Development as a Response to Increased Competition
Lundvall, Bengt-Åke; Kristensen, Frank Skov - DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of … - 1997
competition is a primary driving force behind organisational change and technical innovation. Firms are divided into three groups …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005169041
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Distance to Frontier and Appropriate Business Strategy
Coad, Alex - DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of … - 2008
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005260601
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Innovation, Learning Organizations and Industrial Relations
Nielsen, Peter; Lundvall, Bengt-Åke - DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of … - 2003
Innovation may be seen as a process of knowledge creation and the speed and direction of knowledge creation reflects … exposed to the need to engage in incremental product and service innovation the economic potential of diffusing good practices … aiming at promoting innovation and knowledge creation. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005260605
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Innovation in Private Infrastructure Development Effects of the Selection Environment and Modularity
Gil, Nuno; Miozzo, Marcela - DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of … - 2007
This study investigates how the selection environment and modularity affect innovation in private infrastructure … innovations. An innovation succeeds contingent upon the capability of the stakeholder groups to develop collectively a plan to … finance and implement the innovation, which reconciles subjective individual assessments. Innovations can be particularly hard …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005273131