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organization over time. While learning helps improve the organization's goals it also creates a time-consistency problem. Leader …
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When the mortality rate is high, repeated interaction alone may not sustain cooperation, and religion may play an important role in shaping economic institutions. This insight explains why during the fourteenth century, when plagues decimated populations and the church promoted the doctrine of...
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almost exclusively been introduced through organizational change in existing firms. We show that for the U.S. and global … organizational change is necessary for incumbent firms to remain competitive and, ultimately, to survive. Japan's sharply higher … organizational change/new entry ratio compared to the U.S. during the biotech revolution is related to Japan's relatively compact …
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States during the 1990's, I examine the incidence and intensity of organizational innovation and the factors associated with … investments in organizational innovation. Past profits tend to be positively associated with organizational innovation. Employers … being part of a multi-establishment firm) are more likely to invest in organizational innovation. Investments in human …
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, the forces of innovation and diffusion combine to shape trade substitution patterns. Innovation makes a country … technological similarity and increases head-to-head competition. In the special case of an innovation-only model where countries do … observable trade flows and the dynamics of innovation and knowledge diffusion …
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We study the optimal allocation of R&D resources in an endogenous growth model with an innovation network, through … more R&D toward key sectors that are upstream in the innovation network. Second, we extend to an open-economy setting and … spillovers has less incentive to direct resources toward innovation-upstream sectors, leading to cross-country differences in …
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major changes in the American innovation ecosystem over the past century. The past three decades have been marked by a …
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). We present models in the literature that extend the EK model of trade to innovation, diffusion, and multinational firms …
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Scientific freedom and openness are hallmarks of academia: relative to their counterparts in industry, academics maintain discretion over their research agenda and allow others to build on their discoveries. This paper examines the relationship between openness and freedom, building on recent...
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The development prospects of a poor country depend in part on its capacity for innovation. The productivity of its …
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