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B2C eCommerce Strategy and Market Structure: The Survey Based Approach

Schmitz, Stefan W.; Sint, Peter Paul - EconWPA - 2003

This paper follows two objectives: (i) It demonstrates the merits of the survey based approach to B2C eCommerce characteristics and company strategy, and (ii) it presents empirical evidence of the crucial importance of size and marketing investment in B2C eCommerce markets. It presents...

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The strategic value of ergonomics for companies

Dul, Jan - EconWPA - 2005

The discipline of ergonomics studies the interaction between man and the designed technical and organizational environment. In product ergonomics, this knowledge is used to develop user-friendly products and in production ergonomics to design human-friendly (production) processes. Beside social...

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The Statistical Mechanics of Complex Product Development: Empirical and Analytical Results

Braha, Dan; Bar-Yam, Yaneer - EconWPA - 2005

In recent years, understanding the structure and function of complex networks has become the foundation for explaining many different real- world complex biological, technological and informal social phenomena. Techniques from statistical physics have been successfully applied to the analysis of...

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Delayed Product Introduction

Hui, Kai-Lung; Wang, Qiu-Hong - EconWPA - 2005

We investigate the incentives of a monopolistic seller to delay the introduction of a new and improved version of his product. By analyzing a three-period model, we show that the seller may prefer to delay introducing a new product, even though the enabling technologies for the product are...

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Adoption of Product and Process Innovations in Differentiated

Weiss, Pia - EconWPA - 2002

products. Firms' weakly favour a process innovation if the degree of product differentiation (competition) is high (low). In … product innovation are found to be the critical assumptions in the sense of Milgrom and Roberts (1994). …

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Product and Process Innovations in a Horizontally Differentiated Product Market

Weiss, Pia - EconWPA - 2002

firm’s decision between a product and process innovation. When firms have to choose between the two types of innovation, it … is demonstrated that both firms undertake the product innovation when the competi-tion is intense. For intermediate … depending on the innovation cost structure. Again, the firms are willing to incur higher costs into product innovations, when …

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accelereting new product development by overcoming complexity constraints

vassilakis, spyros - EconWPA - 2003

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NEW PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT & MANAGEMENT OF KNOWLEDGE IN PORTUGUESE HIGHER EDUCATION

Batiz-Lazo, Bernardo; Gomes, Jorge; Mendes, Maria - EconWPA - 2002

This chapter uses key concepts in the knowledge management literature to analyse the procedures and practices used by a project management team to identify, create, store, disseminate, and apply knowledge management systems for successful project completion. This project allowed a long...

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R&D and Subsidies at the Firm Level: An Application of Parametric and Semi-Parametric Two-Step Selection Models

Hussinger, Katrin - EconWPA - 2004

This paper analyzes the effects of public subsidies on R&D expenditure in the German manufacturing sector. The focus is on the question whether public R&D funding stimulates or crowds out private investment. Cross sectional data at the firm level is used. By applying parametric and...

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VERTICAL R&D SPILLOVERS, COOPERATION, MARKET STRUCTURE, AND INNOVATION

Atallah, Gamal - EconWPA - 2000

are taken into account. The paper proposes a theory of innovation and market structure, showing that the relation between … innovation and competition depends on horizontal spillovers, vertical spillovers, and cooperative settings. The private …

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