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, where a non-governmental organization (NGO) rather than a regulator watches over citizens' interests. The innovation … innovation process is considered in terms of a redistribution of profit towards community development, with or without additional … demonstrates that the firm's choice of VA hinges on the tradeoffs between appropriating the full innovation profit and paying a …
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In this paper we model interactions between organizational structures, job stress, emotional contagion and organization performance. An organization is modelled as solving problems or performing tasks. Tasks enter the organization and can be addressed by a subset of its members. Organization...
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This article criticises current BoP approaches for under-appreciating two issues that play vital roles in projects targeting the poor at the BoP: heterogeneity among the poor, and the intricacies of participatory partnerships between TNCs, the non-profit sector (NGOs) and local poor communities...
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This paper makes a case for the value of looking at culture and multinationals from a management and organizational perspective because it is one which could direct greater attention towards culture as a significant factor in future investigation on multinational corporations. We attempt to...
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This chapter attempts a step forward in seeking a richer understanding of the dynamics of strategic alliances, specifically when viewed from a cross-cultural perspective. We report selected materials from a study designed to build a theory of culture and learning in organizations based on...
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about the relationship between the patent system and innovation, in order to draw some tentative conclusions about their …
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Evidence on the "funding gap" for investment innovation is surveyed. The focus is on financial market reasons for …
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This paper studies the dynamic relationship between input and output of innovation in Dutch manufacturing using an … unbalanced panel of enterprise data from five waves of the Community Innovation Survey during 1994-2004. We estimate by maximum … persistence of innovation input and innovation output, a lag effect of the former on the latter and a feedback effect of the …
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This paper addresses the question whether innovation is within reach for small enterprises in developing economies by … starts with reviewing definitions of innovation since Schumpeter. It concludes that newness, value creation and process are … time and again considered as the key-elements of innovation. Innovation, hence, may be summarized as the process of …
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knowledge re-use, adaptation and embedment in many emerging and developing countries involving efforts at local innovation, is … in many ways similar to, and reminiscent of the development of the many innovation policy tools in European countries and … regions. The first policy challenge, we refer to as "recherche sans frontières"; the second one as "innovation for local …
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