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van den Ende, van den Ende, J.C.M. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2008

Innovation offers many opportunities for corporations. That is beyond dispute. The only question is how to make the … most of them. In this lecture, I show what the process of innovation entails; I give examples of successful and failed … management of the innovation process and the organisation of system innovation. Research findings show how companies can improve …

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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

This paper explores whether the manager’s physical office work environment can stimulate the manager’s creativity. A … total of 60 managers from a large manufacturing company participated in the study. They rated the creativity potential and … creativity potential. Compared to offices with low creativity potential, offices with high creativity potential have lower …

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Flexible Labor and Innovation Performance: Evidence from Longitudinal Firm-Level Data

Zhou, Zhou, H.; Dekker, Dekker, R.; Kleinknecht, … - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2010

Firms with high shares of workers on fixed-term contracts have significantly higher sales of imitative new products but perform significantly worse on sales of inno¬va¬tive new products (“first on the market”). High functional flexibility in “insider-outsider” la¬bor markets enhances...

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Science and Technology-based Regional Entrepreneurship in the Netherlands: Building Support Structures for Business Creation and Growth Entrepreneurship

Hulsink, Hulsink, W.; Suddle, Suddle, K.; Hessels, … - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2008

In this contribution we develop a theoretical framework derived from the national system of innovation literature and … the Netherlands. The national system of innovation of the Netherlands, and its specifics and peculiarities, and the …

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Rethinking the Dutch Innovation Agenda: Management and Organization Matter Most

Van Den Bosch, Frans A J; Volberda, Volberda, H.W. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2004

In this essay, we challenge the present dominant emphasis in the Dutch Innovation Debate on the creation of … managerial capabilities and organizing principles for innovation should have a higher priority on the Dutch Innovation Agenda …. Managerial capabilities for innovation deal with cognitive elements such as the capacity to absorb knowledge, create …

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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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Problems and Solutions in Knowledge Transfer

Nooteboom, Bart - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2001

A central feature of innovation systems is that innovation arises from interaction between organizational units. This … systems of innovation. …

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Knowledge Management as a Strategic Tool to Foster Innovativeness of SMEs

Zhou, Zhou, H.; Uhlaner, Uhlaner, L.M. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2009

sharing) and innovation behavior. The concept of absorptive capacity and assumptions from the dynamic capabilities view …

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Measures of Pleasures

Magala, Magala, S.J. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2002

Measuring culture originated in cultural anthropology, but all social sciences contributed to comparative cultural studies. Tracing critical approaches towards a measurement of cultural values one is bound to strip the biases and stereotypes bare and to invade numerous academic fiefs. Hofstede...

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Moving in Social Circles – Social Circle Membership and Performance Implications

Verbeke, Verbeke, W.J.M.I.; Wuyts, Wuyts, S.H.K. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2006

We investigate social circles in intra-firm settings. First, we argue that social circles are inhabited by individuals whose attitudes display fit with the objectives of the social circle rather than more self-centered instrumentalism or calculation. For a test of this hypothesis, we distinguish...

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