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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 …

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Appropriability in Services

Dolfsma, Wilfred - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2005

paper I take a closer look at one aspect of innovation in services: appropriability. I discuss the different elements that …

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Collective Consuming: Consumers as Subcontractors on Electronic Markets

Dolfsma, Wilfred - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2005

In this article, contrary to popular belief, it is argued on the basis of Transaction Cost Economics that consumers will become dependent subcontractors on electronic markets. Consumers invest time and effort building up a relation with a producer or e-tailer; an investment that is...

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IPRs, Technological Development, and Economic Development

Dolfsma, Wilfred - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2006

circumstances where knowledge & innovation play an increasingly significant role in the economy (Foray & Lundvall 1996, Cowan, David …

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Market and Society: How do they relate, and contribute to welfare?

Dolfsma, Wilfred; Finch, J.; McMaster, R. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2004

This paper discusses how markets and society relate to each other. We present and discuss three views: markets as separate, markets as embedded, and markets as impure. One’s stance on the contribution of markets to welfare hinges on the conceptualization of market and other spheres in society....

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No Black Box and No Black Hole: from Social Capital to Gift Exchange

Dolfsma, Wilfred; van der Eijk, van der Eijk, A.R.; … - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2005

In this paper, we draw on the literature about gift exchange to suggest a conceptualization of the emergence, maintenance and use of social capital (SK). We thus open up the black box of how social relations are established, and are able to indicate what can be meaningfully ascribed to social...

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On and off the beaten path: How individuals broker knowledge through formal and informal networks

Dolfsma, Wilfred; Aalbers, Aalbers, R.; Koppius, … - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2004

Although informal networks are often emphasized as facilitating knowledge transfer, we use network data obtained from a multi-unit high-tech firm to show that the formal network also significantly contributes to inter-unit knowledge transfer. Individuals centrally placed in a network are, in...

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Bridging Structure and Agency: Processes of Institutional Change

Dolfsma, Wilfred; Verburg, Verburg, R.M. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2005

shrift in previous eras (Davis 2003), but at the same time argue that one should not negate the reality of social structure …

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How To Be Better Prepared For A Paradigm Shift In Economic Theory, And Write Better Articles In The Meantime

Dolfsma, Wilfred; Welch, P. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2004

The development of economic thought is not unlike the development of technological knowledge: paradigms can be discerned over time and across the field. Indeed, in its history economics has experienced paradigm shifts. There is no reason why it will not do so again in the future. In technology,...

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The Process of New Service Development: issues of formilization and appropriability

Dolfsma, Wilfred - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2004

Services form an important part of the economy today. Innovation for service firms is as important as for manufacturing …, but the innovation process for service firms is comparatively little studied. In this paper, I review the literature there … is on the innovation process for service firms, and make two suggestions for formalizing that process. The common thought …

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