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Why New Business Development Projects Fail: Coping with the Differences of Technological versus Market Knowledge
Van Den Bosch, Frans A J; Burgers, Burgers, J.H.; … - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2007
Managing through projects has become important for generating new knowledge to cope with technological and market … discontinuities. This paper examines how the fit between the creation of technological and market knowledge and important project … knowledge contributed to the failure of those NBD-projects that required new market knowledge as well. The findings indicate …
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Measures of Pleasures
Magala, Magala, S.J. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2002
) we end up measuring values and competence in management of knowledge and skills, of norms and behaviours, cutting many …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010731100
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Risk Perception and Decision-Making by the Corporate Elite: Empirical Evidence for Netherlands-based Companies
Segers, Rene; Franses, Philip Hans; de Groot, de Groot, E.A. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2012
We study risk perception and actual decision-making by the corporate elite, where we consider CEOs, CFOs and non-executives. We collect data for many members of the elite for Netherlands-based companies using the vignettes method. We find that CEOs are more risk tolerant but do not act...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010730971
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The Strawberry Growth Underneath the Nettle: the emergence of entrepreneurs in China
Krug, Krug, B.; Polos, Polos, L. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2000
Chinese entrepreneurs innovatively manage organisations in the absence of strong economic institutions, under conditions of high environmental and technological uncertainty. This paper presents the findings of an empirical study designed to investigate how Chinese entrepreneurs can be successful...
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Performance Management: A model and research agenda
den Hartog, den Hartog, D.N.; Boselie, Boselie, J.P.P.E.F. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2004
Performance Management deals with the challenge organizations face in defining, measuring and stimulating employee performance with the ultimate goal to improve organizational performance. Thus, Performance Management involves multiple levels of analysis and is clearly linked to the topics...
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The Optimal Prediction Simultaneous Equations Selection
Gorobets, Gorobets, A. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2004
This paper presents a method for selection of the optimal simultaneous equation system from a set of nested models under the condition of a small sample. The purpose of selection is to identify a model with the best prognostic possibilities. Multivariate AIC, BIC and AICC are used as the...
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Learning by Experience in the Project-Bases Organization
Turner, Turner, J.R.; Keegan, Keegan, A.; Crawford, L. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2000
This paper describes how project-based organizations use structured experience to aid the learning and development of individuals, and how they capture their experience of projects to feed that back into the improved management of future projects and the experiential learning of individuals. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010837518
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Towards a Dynamic (Schumpeterian) Welfare Economics
Dolfsma, Wilfred - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2004
For an economy where knowledge plays an increasingly important role in shaping its dynamics, economics needs a dynamic … (Schumpeterian) welfare theory. This paper sketches the role of knowledge in an economy and argues that a static Paretian welfare … economics acknowledges the role of knowledge. In a dynamic welfare economics, I suggest, different costs of communication are …
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A Managerial Perspective on the Logic of Increasing Returns
den Hartigh, E.; Langerak, Langerak, F.; Commandeur, … - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2000
increasing returns as the information and knowledge intensity of their transformation processes rises. Dealing with these … transformation processes (old economy) to information and knowledge intensive transformation processes (new economy). For these …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010837526
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The Practice of Investment Appraisal
Akalu, M.M.; Turner, Turner, J.R. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2001
This case study examines the capital budgeting practices of four companies operating in different industry. The findings indicate that most companies follow decentralised project decision-making. Despite the use of DCF techniques, there is a tendency to combine with the newly crafted value...
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