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Flexible Labor and Innovation Performance: Evidence from Longitudinal Firm-Level Data
Zhou, Zhou, H.; Dekker, Dekker, R.; Kleinknecht, … - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2010
Firms with high shares of workers on fixed-term contracts have significantly higher sales of imitative new products but perform significantly worse on sales of inno¬va¬tive new products (“first on the market”). High functional flexibility in “insider-outsider” la¬bor markets enhances...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010837685
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Knowledge Management as a Strategic Tool to Foster Innovativeness of SMEs
Zhou, Zhou, H.; Uhlaner, Uhlaner, L.M. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2009
medium sized enterprises (SMEs). Our empricial results indicate that external acquisition practices play a key role in … fostering SMEs’ innovativeness while internal sharing practices do not appear to have a significant influence. External … opportunities which in turn may lead to new or improved products or processes. We suggest that owners/entrepreneurs of SMEs and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010730921
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The Impact of Corporate Venturing on a Firm’s Competence Modes
Van Den Bosch, Frans A J; Burgers, Burgers, J.H.; … - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2007
In this conceptual paper we investigate how corporate venturing influences an organization’s competences. The impact of various types of corporate ventures on the portfolio of strategic options of a firm’s competence modes (Sanchez, 2004a; Sanchez and Heene, 2002) will be assessed by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010731240
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A Model for Evaluating Pharmaceutical R&D Investment Projects under Technical and Economic Uncertainties
Pennings, Enrico; Sereno, Sereno, L. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2010
This study sets up a compound option approach for evaluating pharmaceutical R&D investment projects in the presence of technical and economic uncertainties. Technical uncertainty is modeled as a Poisson jump that allows for failure and thus abandonment of the drug development. Economic...
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Flexible Decision Support in Dynamic Interorganizational Networks
Collins, Collins, J.; Ketter, Ketter, W.; Gini, Gini, M. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2008
An effective Decision Support System (DSS) should help its users improve decision-making in complex, information-rich, environments. We present a feature gap analysis that shows that current decision support technologies lack important qualities for a new generation of agile business models that...
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A Matter of Life and Death: Innovation and Firm Survival
Cefis, Cefis, E.; Marsili, Marsili, O. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2004
This paper examines the effects of innovation on the survival of manufacturing firms in the Netherlands. The demographics of firms according to their innovative performance and type of innovation are traced by using the Business Register population of all firms active in the Netherlands and the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010730874
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Human Knowledge Resources and Interorganizational Systems
Ibrahim, Ibrahim, M.K.M.; Ribbers, Ribbers, P.M.A.; … - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2007
This paper analyses how human knowledge resources affect capabilities and subsequently attainment of operational and strategic benefits. We test a conceptual model using data from two qualitative case studies and a quantitative field study. The findings indicate that human knowledge positively...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010730886
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Discovering the Dynamics of Smart Business Networks
Pau, Louis-Francois - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2007
In an earlier paper ,was discussed the necessary evolution from smart business networks, as based on process need satisfaction and governance, into business genetics [1] based on strategic bonds or decay and opportunistic complementarities. This paper will describe an approach and diffusion...
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Using Networks For Changing Innovation Strategy: The Case of IBM
Dittrich, Dittrich, K.; Duysters, Duysters, G.M.; de … - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2004
Large-scale strategic change projects in companies may be supported by using alliance networks. This paper shows that IBM’s change from an exploitation strategy towards an exploration strategy required a radically different network strategy as well. By entering into more non-equity alliances,...
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A Process Model of Locational Change in Entrepreneurial Firms: An Evolutionary Perspective
Stam, Stam, F.C. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2006
How do changes in the spatial organization of entrepreneurial firms come about? This paper provides a conceptualisation of the process of locational change. A process model of locational change is constructed on the basis of an empirical study of 109 locational events during the life course of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010731347