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Learning and Collusion in New Markets with Uncertain Entry Costs
Bloch, Francis; Fabrizi, Simona; Lippert, Steffen - HAL - 2011
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009368492
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THE ROLE OF LEARNING ORGANIZATIONS IN THE GROWING DISCUSSION ON SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY
Esposito, Mark - HAL - 2010
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/10010549161
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Determinants of the Innovation Propensity in Tunisia: the Central Role of External Knowledge Sources
Ayadi, Mohamed; Rahmouni, Mohieddine; Yildizoglu, Murat - HAL - 2009
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008793447
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THE ROLE OF LEARNING ORGANIZATIONS IN THE GROWING DISCUSSION ON SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY
Esposito, Mark - HAL - 2010
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
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Beyond Being There: The Symbolic Role of Communication and Identification in the Emergence of Perceived Proximity in Geographically Dispersed Work
O'leary, Michael Boyer; Metiu, Anca; Wilson, Jeanne M. - HAL - 2011
We develop the concept of perceived proximity, understood as a symbolic representation of one's faraway coworkers. We build on Wilson et al. (2008), present new validated measures of perceived proximity, and compare how perceived proximity and objective distance relate to relationship outcomes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009422122
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Does team competition eliminate the gender gap in entry in competitive environments ?
Dargnies, Marie-Pierre - HAL - 2009
This paper studies the impact of the possibility to enter a tournament as a team on the gender gap in tournament entry. While a large and significant gender gap in entry in the individual tournament is found in line with the literature, no gender gap is found in entry in the team tournament....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010738631
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Technology and the defense industry: real threats, bad habits, or new (market) opportunities?
Bellais, Renaud - HAL - 2013
Technology has been playing a central role in defense spending or arms-producing countries since World War II. Although … well as public R&D. This technology-centric paradigm results from uncertainties surrounding defense matters and the need to … launching new programs, hence a high level of defense R&D. This explains both an overinvestment in technology, resulting in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010899173
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Aligning modes of organization with technology: Critical transactions in the reform of infrastructures
Kunneke, Rolf; Groenewegen, John; Ménard, Claude - HAL - 2010
This paper is about the alignment of technology and modes of organization in infrastructures in the context of their … determine the alignment between organization and technology and should be taken explicitly into account when reforming …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010635052
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New technologies, workplace organisation and the age structure of the workforce: Firm-level evidence
Aubert, Patrick; Caroli, Eve; Roger, Muriel - HAL - 2005
This paper investigates the relationships between new technologies, innovative workplace practices and the age structure of the workforce in a sample of French manufacturing firms. We find evidence that the wage-bill share of older workers is lower in innovative firms and that the opposite holds...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010739100
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Inequality in Emerging Countries
Chusseau, Nathalie; Hellier, Joël - HAL - 2012
We review the theoretical and empirical economic literature upon income inequality in emerging countries. We firstly describe the main observed de velopments and show that these are rather diverse across countries and developing regions. We subsequently expose the main theoretical mechanisms. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010821406