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Managing Supplier Involvement in New Product Development: A Multiple-Case Study
van Echtelt, van Echtelt, F.E.A.; Wynstra, Wynstra, J.Y.F. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2006
Existing studies of supplier involvement in new product development have mainly focused on project-related short-term processes and success-factors. This study validates and extends an existing exploratory framework, which comprises both long-term strategic processes and short-term operational...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010731097
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The impact on innovation off-shoring on organizational adaptability
Baier, Elisabeth; Rammer, Christian; Schuber, Torben - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2013
We analyze the effects of captive off-shoring of innovation activities on the firms' ability to adapt their … Community Innovation Survey to test our hypotheses. We find an inverted u-shape of innovation off-shoring on the effectiveness … of organizational adaptability, implying an optimal threshold value of innovation off-shoring. This value is 11% for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010957583
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Profit-sharing and innovation
Aerts, Kris; Kraft, Kornelius; Lang, Julia - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2013
We investigate the effect of profit-sharing on product and process innovation. Profit-sharing is a credible commitment … that the introduction of profit-sharing only spurs product innovation. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010957731
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Ergonomics Contributions to Company Strategies
Dul, Jan; Neumann, Neumann, W.P. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2008
Managers usually associate ergonomics with occupational health and safety and related legislation, not with business performance. In many companies, these decision makers seem not to be positively motivated to apply ergonomics for reasons of improving health and safety. In order to strengthen...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010731140
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Human Factors: Spanning the Gap between OM & HRM
Dul, Jan; Neumann, Neumann, W.P. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2010
Purpose: This paper examines the claim that the application of human factors (HF) knowledge can improve both human well-being and operations system performance. Methodology: A systematic review was conducted using a general and two specialist databases to identify empirical studies addressing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010731109
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Can the Office Environment Stimulate a Manager’s Creativity?
Dul, Jan; Ceylan, Ceylan, C.; Aytac, Aytac, S. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2008
to an organization’s innovation. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010730933
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Currents and Sub-currents in the River of Innovations - Explaining Innovativeness using New-Product Announcements
Dolfsma, Wilfred; van der Panne, G. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2006
In their seminal paper, Acs and Audretsch (1988) analyze innovation patterns across industries and identify several … innovation; industries characterized by increased shares of skilled labor and large firms provide favorable conditions for … innovation. By analyzing a new and more consciously compiled database, we re-examine their original claims. Our results largely …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010731228
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Strategic and Operational Management of Supplier Involvement in New Product Development: a Contingency Perspective
van Echtelt, van Echtelt, F.E.A.; Wynstra, Wynstra, J.Y.F. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2007
This paper examines how firms succeed to leverage supplier involvement in product development. The paper extends earlier work on managing supplier involvement by providing an integrated analysis of results, processes and conditions both at the level of individual development projects and the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010731502
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Green innovations and organizational change: Making better use of environmental technology
Hottenrott, Hanna; Rexhäuser, Sascha; Veugelers, Reinhilde - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2012
The literature on within-firm organizational change and productivity suggests that firms can make more efficient use of certain technologies if complementary forms of organization are adopted. This issue may be of even greater importance for the case of greenhouse gas (GHG) abatement...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010985629
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Intermediate input markets, ICT and innovation in Germany: A firm level analysis
Cerquera, Daniel; Klein, Gordon J. - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2013
explicitly the interaction of adopting firms within the intermediate input market in Germany. The paper identifies and quantifies …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010957582