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The effect of regional differences on the performance of software firms in the Netherlands
Boschma, Ron A.; Weterings, Anet - DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of … - 2004
firms. Using regression techniques, the outcomes suggest that spin-offs and firms with organizational capabilities perform …
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Entrepreneurial Founder Effects in the Growth of Regional Clusters How Early Success is a Key Determinant
Dahl, Michael S.; Pedersen, Christian Ø.R.; Dalum, Bent - DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of … - 2005
How can the growth of regional clusters be explained? This paper studies in great detail the growth of the wireless … main driving force behind the generation of new firms that eventually lead to the formation of clusters. The success of the … first firms tends to generate spin-offs, which become successful themselves due to the background of the founders. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005627359
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What Permits Small Firms to Compete in High-Tech Industries? Inter-Organizational Knowledge Creation in the Taiwanese Computer Industry
Ernst, Dieter - DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of … - 1998
This paper addresses a puzzle related to firm size and competition. Since Stephen Hymer´s pioneering contribution (Hymer, 1960/1976), theories of the firm implicitly assume that only large, diversified multinational enterprises can compete in industries that combine high capital intensity, high...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005839228
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Method for Identifying Actors in a Knowledge Based Cluster
Holmén, Magnus; Jacobsson, Staffan A - DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of … - 1998
The objective of the paper is to develop a method through which we can identify the actors (industrial, institutional and individual) who are active in technology development in the same or similar knowledge fields. The paper is, thus, aimed to make a methodological contribution to the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005627349
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Economic Freedom and entrepreneurial Activity Some Cross-Country Evidence
Bjørnskov, Christian; Foss, Nicolai J. - DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of … - 2006
While much attention has been devoted to analyzing how the institutional framework and entrepreneurship impact growth, how economic policy and institutional design affect entrepreneurship appears to be much less analyzed. We try to explain cross-country differences in the level of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005169048
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Analyzing the Distributions of the Stochastic Firm Growth Approach
Reichstein, Toke; Jensen, Morten Berg - DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of … - 2003
Recently there has been a renewed interest in the study of firm size distributions and firm growth rate distributions. The stochastic firm growth approach builds on the assumption that firm growth rates are independent identically distributed and size is determined by a first order...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005627346
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Mobility of Skills and Ideas
Martiarena, Aloña - DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of … - 2012
decision to found spinoffs and the know-how that entrepreneurs exploit in the new firm. I argue that given the different degree … of specialisation in small and large firms, entrepreneurs emerging from small firms transfer knowledge from more diverse … aspects of the business and create spinoffs more related to the main activity of the incumbent firm. Workers in large firms …
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Responses to the Crisis Constraints to a Rapid Trade Adjustment in East Asia´s Electronics Industry
Ernst, Dieter - DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of … - 1999
It has been argued that “… trade adjustment in East Asia…will be rapid and sizable, lifting aggregate growth in these economies even as the domestic non-tradable sectors continue to suffer a decline (as in Mexico)” (World Bank, 1998, p.5). Much hope has been pinned on the electronics...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005260607
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Value-based management in learning organizations through 'hard' and 'soft' managerial approaches: The case of Hewlett-Packard
Nymark, Søren - DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of … - 2000
'Learning organizations' enable companies to remove hierarchical levels and to introduce a flatter organizational structure, which can lead to reduced costs and increased productivity. A recent Danish study has proved coherence between a flat, integrative organizational structure and an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005839221
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Cyclical Dynamics in Three Industries
Tan, Hao; Mathews, John A. - DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of … - 2007
In this paper we offer a procedure to identify the industry cycles, and apply the procedure to the industrial data of three industries, namely semiconductors, PCs and FPDs. The identified cycles enable us to conduct two comparison analyses: (1) comparing the cycles with those suggested by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005839235