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efficiency. Partial integration promotes a more dynamic, open innovation platform and enhances strategic capabilities by linking …
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This paper investigates the relationship between product market competition and innovation. It uses the radical policy … competition and patenting. It then develops an endogenousm growth model with step-by-step innovation that can deliver this … inverted-U pattern.In this model, competition has an ambiguous effect on innovation. On the one hand, it discourages laggard …
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This paper builds on Granovetter's distinction between strong and weak ties and responds to recent calls for a more dynamic, processual and thus comprehensive understanding of knowledge transfer in networks with regard to both the nature of the ties that link firms to novel sources of knowledge...
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This paper considers how ideas from evolutionary theory and the neo-Schumpeterian tradition can be fruitfully combined with ideas from Herbert Simon and the Carnegie tradition on decomposability and cognitive limits. Rather than focusing on any one individual issue, this paper outlines a...
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Recent attention has focused on the UK's productivity gap in the retail sector. A recent paper by Reynolds et al (2005) emphasises that a more thorough understanding of what drives productivity in the retail sector requires a better understanding of the 'complex mix of urban characteristics,...
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management practices and work-life balance practices, surveying 732 medium sized manufacturing firms in the US, France, Germany …
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While scholarly research has produced a great deal of useful knowledge about various forms of innovation, there has … been very little attention given to the dynamics of management innovation - the implementation of a new management practice … nature of management innovation? How can we categorize or make sense of the enormous variety of management innovations that …
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A paradox in innovation management is that firms deploying what is generally recognised 'good practice' can find … to dealing with 'steady state' innovation differ from and may even conflict with those needed to explore and exploit … study firm working in the medical products field. It argues that firms need to learn to manage innovation but that two …
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Despite its importance as a potential source of variation within industries, little is currently known about the antecedents of new business ideas in large, established firms. While a number of organization and management literatures address, tangentially, issues pertaining to this topic, none...
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In spite of the continued importance of an innovation's attributes to research methodologies, and the increasing … mixed-method, exploratory study addressing the question of innovation classification. Data from a rigorous thematic … (innovation attributes). Following operationalization of the framework as a 56-item survey instrument, we conduct a cluster …
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