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We examine three theories of caste and community using new data on social networks among residents of a south Indian village. The first theory treats individual caste groups as separated communities driven by the Brahmanical ideology of hierarchy based on purity and pollution. The second theory...
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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 … ways than one. This paper is based on selected materials from a qualitative study of culture and learning in organizations …
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culture and learning in organizations based on observations of and open-ended interviews with Dutch and Thai employees working …, became its indispensible trademark. The case illustrates how the three levels of culture – national, organizational, and … on how this case and our interpretation of it illuminate the complex role culture can play in the dynamics of strategic …
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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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be the expression of an outdated and wasteful research nationalism. On the other hand, the growing need for local … 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 …
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This paper analyzes the consequences for financial performance of technology strategies categorized along two dimensions: (1) explorative versus exploitative and (2) solitary versus collaborative. The financial performance implications of firms’ positioning along these two dimensions has...
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We review the econometric literature on measuring the returns to R&D. The theoretical frameworks that have been used are outlined, followed by an extensive discussion of measurement and econometric issues that arise when estimating the models. We then provide a series of tables summarizing the...
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