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Can open source projects succeed when the producers are not users? Lessons from the data processing field.
JULLIEN, Nicolas; Roudaut, Karine - HAL - 2012
Free/Libre Open Source Software (FLOSS) proposes an original way to solve the incentive dilemma for the production of 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...
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Differentiated management of GM diffusion in China: Further hampering the self-sufficiency in cereal production?
Fok, Michel; Liang, Weili; Wang, Guiyan; Wu, Yuhong - HAL - 2004
China is a big country in terms of biotech achievements. It is also a rare country demonstrating crop …
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Taux de change réel et productivité en Chine
Jeanneney, Sylviane Guillaumont; Hua, Ping - HAL - 2011
This article investigates the impact that the appreciation and the stability of the real exchange rate in China between … 1993 and 2001 have exerted on productivity growth. We give theoretical arguments explaining the impact of the real exchange … rate on productivity via its effects either on efficiency growth or on technical progress. Then for the twenty-nine Chinese …
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Value indicators and monitoring in innovative PDM: A grounded approach
Hooge, Sophie; Hatchuel, Armand - HAL - 2008
Long-term success of firms depends on the efficiency of their management of R&D projects. However, there is a gap between standard economic and strategic indicators and the high uncertainty, complexity of commitments, and organizational issues that can be observed in the more innovative R&D...
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Virtual Teams for New Product Development: An Innovative Experience for R&D Engineers
Ebrahim, Nader Ale; Ahmed, Shamsuddin; Taha, Zahari - HAL - 2009
New interaction tools such as internet allow companies to gain valuable input from research and development (R&D) engineers via virtual teams. Consequently, engineers also get more expertise in diminutive timeframes. Virtual R&D teams present the key impetus to the technology acquisition...
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SMEs; Virtual research and development (R&D) teams and new product development: A literature review
Ebrahim, Nader Ale; Ahmed, Shamsuddin; Taha, Zahari - HAL - 2010
Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are indeed the engines of global economic growth. Their continued growth is a major subject for the economy and employment of any country. Towards that end, virtual research and development (R&D) could be a viable option to sustain and ease the...
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Exploration and Project Management
Lenfle, Sylvain - HAL - 2008
Project management in academic studies tends to be regarded as an adequate solution to the problems raised by innovation. This paper sets out to question this tendency to equate projects and innovation which, in our view, can lead to the improper use of projects to manage innovation. We argue...
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Creating Products in the Absence of Markets: A Robust Design Approach
Midler, Christophe; Silberzahn, Philippe - HAL - 2008
Purpose - The purpose of this study is to examine how firms deal with a situation of true uncertainty about their potential markets and technologies. Specifically, we ask how firms can create products when the corresponding market does not exist. Design/methodology/approach – This paper is...
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NPD Projects in Search of Top Management Support : The Role of Team Leader Social Capital
Chollet, Barthelemy; Brion, Sébastien; Chauvet, Vincent; … - HAL - 2012
A number of studies have found that the performance of NPD projects greatly depends on the support they get from top management. However, research into why some projects get more support than others has been limited. The present paper takes a political approach to NPD, in which top management...
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“Wir, die wir einen Floh beschlagen haben”. Produktivität und Profit in einem Moskauer Joint Venture
Müller, Birgit; Mechtcherkina, Elena; Levinson, Kirill; … - HAL - 1996
Während sich Moskau im Herbst 1993 unter und Ober der Erde in einen Straßenmarkt verwandelt hatte, waren die Strategien und Perspektiven der russischen Betriebe von der Zerschlagung von Staatsmonopolen, Privatisierungen und Joint Ventures geprägt. Mit welchen Vorstellungen die Beschäftigten...
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