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Managers often see new organizational design as the solution to many problems. This paper explores the relationship between organization structure (design), functioning of organizations, and effectiveness. A study of 320 companies showed that the structural variable, decentralization, marginally...
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Strong market orientation is essential to firm success. In the diverse and dynamic digital environment, a strong market orientation philosophy is even more important to the digital entrepreneur. We explore the advantages and challenges that the networked world offers the market-oriented digital...
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organization. Finally, we discuss several directions for future research in this increasingly important area of innovation and …
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innovation by enabling firms to invest in promising new R&D projects as soon as they are discovered, or to maintain R&D during … uncertainty, thus driving more commercially valuable innovation. This is one of the few studies providing empirical evidence of …
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Valley, respectively, these IC firms can easily imitate any innovation through the interactions among intra-industry firms …. The contribution of intra-industry innovation development to firms' technological advancement is defined as the "spillover … effect". This paper compares how the innovation characteristics and industrial clustering influence the spillover effects …
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Innovation is of vital importance, not only to commercial companies, but also to governments. For the Dutch, innovation … evaluation of a water innovation program carried out by the Dutch government, using the cyclic innovation model, shows that there … is a broad understanding of innovation, that innovators see innovation as a significant break from the "old" and …
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Higher education and community partnerships have transitioned from casual relationships to more of a mandate with the advancements in technology and globalization. The result of this large-scale change has led to an increase in these efforts, but the relationships are still emerging. Using...
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This paper examines the role of several learning mechanisms for innovation performance, particularly their relevance … for different types of innovation. Although the innovation drivers have been extensively discussed in the literature, more … evidence is needed to verify that specific innovation outputs rely on specific knowledge sources. Based on the European …
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The paper discusses the relationship between learning, innovation and (institutional) reflexivity. It is often held … that reflexivity is a crucial factor for learning and innovation processes. However, a rather formalistic approach to … also inhibit innovation. This is especially the case when reflexive tools are abused to push performance only. In order to …
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This paper studies the impact of the adoption of ICT on the economic performance at the firm level, considering explicitly the interaction of adopting firms within the intermediate input market in Germany. The paper identifies and quantifies the importance of adoption externalities and knowledge...
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