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Product, Process and Organizational Innovation: Drivers, Complementarity and Productivity Effects

Polder, Michael; Leeuwen, George van; Mohnen, Pierre; … - Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des … - 2010

We propose a model where both R&D and ICT investment feed into a system of three innovation output equations (product …, process and organizational innovation), which ultimately feeds into a productivity equation. We find that ICT investment and … usage are important drivers of innovation in both manufacturing and services. Doing more R&D has a positive effect on …

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The Protection of Innovations

Atallah, Gamal - Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des … - 2004

higher levels of innovation and lower levels of secrecy. An increase in the size of the market, a reduction in the cost of … produits est associé avec davantage d'innovation et moins de protection. Une augmentation dans la taille du marché, une …

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Vertical R&D Spillovers, Cooperation, Market Structure, and Innovation

Atallah, Gamal - Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des … - 2000

are taken into account. The paper proposes a theory of innovation and market structure, showing that the relation between … innovation and competition depends on horizontal spillovers, vertical spillovers, and cooperative settings. The private … coopération verticale. Le papier propose une théorie reliant le degré d'innovation à la structure du marché: la relation entre la …

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Innovative Efforts as Determinants of Export Performance: The Case of Specialized Suppliers

Bourgault, Mario; Lefebvre, Élisabeth; Lefebvre, Louis A. - Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des … - 1995

This paper presents empirical evidence on the relationship between innovative efforts and performance on international markets for the specific case of small firms acting as specialized suppliers. In addition to tangible efforts such as R&D expenditures, intangible efforts are also considered....

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Existence and Uniqueness of Cournot Equilibrium: A Contraction Mapping Approach

Long, Ngo Van; Soubeyran, Antoine - Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des … - 1999

We provide sufficient conditions for existence and uniqueness of a Cournot equilibrium. The contraction mapping approach is used. Equilibrium is characterized in terms of marginal costs. The result is useful for applications to two-stage games, where, in the first stage, firms incur costs to...

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The Structure of Incentives in a Major Information Systems Outsourcing Contract: The Case of a North American Public Organization

Aubert, Benoit A.; Patry, Michel; Rivard, Suzanne - Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des … - 1995

We use agency theory to shed light on a complex, multi-year outsourcing contract between an important public organization and three major information services outsourcers. The contractual arrangement shows that innovative contracts can be drawn that reduce the scope of supplier opportunism. Nous...

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Cost Manipulation Games in Oligopoly, with Costs of Manipulating

Long, Ngo Van; Soubeyran, Antoine - Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des … - 1999

This paper analyzes a class of two-stage Cournot games where rival firms, in the first stage, incur real resource costs in jointly manipulating their marginal costs of production, so as to influence the outcome of game they want to play in the second stage. Marginal costs may be manipulated by...

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L'analyse de l'influence de la pression des pairs dans les équipes de travail

Masclet, David - Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des … - 2003

This paper addresses the effects of peer pressure in work teams. Many empirical studies have shed light on the efficiency of peer pressure. Peer pressure can be defined as mechanisms of mutual monitoring and sanction established within a group of agents by the agents themselves in order to...

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Assessing the Risk of IT Outsourcing

Aubert, Benoit A.; Patry, Michel; Rivard, Suzanne - Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des … - 1998

Outsourcing decisions, and contractual arrangements of the type required by an IT outsourcing deal, entail risks. This is not to say that outsourcing is bad in itself. It only means that, as in other risky business ventures such as new product development, capital investments, and IS projects,...

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Fragmentation, Outsourcing and the Service Sector

Long, Ngo Van; Riezman, Ray; Soubeyran, Antoine - Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des … - 2001

We show that the growth of the service sector facilitates outsourcing, or fragmentation of production. Services link production blocks, and allows the breaking up of integrated production. The cost of aggregate service decreases as the number of specialized services increases. A country with a...

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