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information goods, based on von ippel's user-as-innovator principle (1988): as users benefit from innovation, they have incentive … to produce it, and as they can expect cumulative innovation on their own proposition, they have incentive to share it …
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The aim of the paper is to characterize innovation with user communities and to explore managerial implications for … digitalization and virtualization of interactions change the ways in which the boundaries between the firm and its user community are … money with innovation. Finally, innovation with user communities may modify the respective identities of firms and …
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This paper analyzes an entry timing game with uncertain entry costs. Two firms receive costless signals about the cost of a new project and decide when to invest. We characterize the equilibrium of the investment timing game with private and public signals. We show that competition leads the two...
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What is the debate on Learning Organizations all about? In this paper we propose to demonstrate that the necessity to … years, makes of learning a condition of survival for any organization, whether individual, company, school or nation. More …-time Learning Organization? How can people forget their stifling Industrial-Era education and recover their natural strive to reach …
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This article is dedicated to the analysis of the first innovation survey of the Tunisian firms. Starting from basic … mechanisms of innovation processes, we test a set of conjectures adapted to a developing country like Tunisia. We analyze the … from external knowledge sources in order to exhibit significant innovation propensities. The large size is also a necessary …
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What is the debate on Learning Organizations all about? In this paper we propose to demonstrate that the necessity to … years, makes of learning a condition of survival for any organization, whether individual, company, school or nation. More …-time Learning Organization? How can people forget their stifling Industrial-Era education and recover their natural strive to reach …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008796094
This case study is made from an action-research intervention in a very huge multinational company of telecommunications. The objectives of the projects were to change the miond (attitudes, behavior and competences) of all these people who work in software development in the company (several...
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dynamics on the micro level. The idea we are defending here is that the "Community" as defined by German sociologist Ferdinand …
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At present, the existing literature shows that the factors which influence the effectiveness of virtual teams for new product development are still ambiguous. To address this problem, a research design was developed, which includes detailed literature review, preliminary model and field survey....
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This paper proposes and empirically investigates two strategies that companies can employ to involve indirect suppliers in new product development (NPD): supply network delegation; and supply network intervention. The implications of the two strategies are explored. The paper brings together the...
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