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The Role of Reciprocation in Social Network Formation, With an Application to Blogging

Gaudeul, Alexia; Giannetti, Caterina - 2014

This paper deals with the role of reciprocation in the formation of individuals' social networks, that is to what extent initiating a relation brings about its reciprocation. Following the activity of a panel of bloggers over more than a year, we seek to establish whether bloggers are mainly...

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The Role of Reciprocation in Social Network Formation, with an Application to Blogging

Gaudeul, Alexia; Giannetti, Caterina - 2013

This paper deals with the role of reciprocation in the formation of individuals' social networks. We follow the activity of a panel of bloggers over more than a year and investigate the extent to which initiating a relation brings about its reciprocation. We adapt a standard capital investment...

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A strategic selection procedure

Suzuki, Toru - 2011

voluntary testing. That is, unlike statistical selection procedures, the signal generating process is endogenous. Then, the …

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A Strategic Selection Procedure

Suzuki, Toru - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

voluntary testing. That is, unlike statistical selection procedures, the signal generating process is endogenous. Then, the …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008862307

Competition in product design: an experiment exploring innovation behavior

Cantner, Uwe; Güth, Werner; Nicklisch, Andreas; … - 2007

We experimentally investigate competition in innovation in a patent race scenario. Pairs of subjects compete as seller … firms on a duopoly market, engaging in risky search investments. Successful innovation is rewarded through temporary …

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Innovation networks of high tech SMES: creation of knowledge but no creation of value

Winters, Rob; Stam, Erik - 2007

This paper analyses the effects of innovation networks on product and pro-cess innovation and sales growth of high … technology SMEs. Innovation net-works are positively related to both product and process innovation, i.e. know-ledge creation …. One exception is the negative effect of innovation networks with suppliers on product innovation. Older SMEs are more …

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Functional chains of knowledge management: effects on firms' innovative performance

Cantner, Uwe; Joel, Kristin - 2007

The aim of this paper is to investigate the role of Knowledge Management (KM) for the innovation success of firms. It … recombination of internal and external knowledge assets. To analyse the embedding of KM in a firm's internal system of innovation we …. Using data on KM and innovation success of 351 German firms of the manufacturing sector and knowledge-intensive services …

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Beyond the knowledge production function: the role of R&D in a multi-faceted innovative process

Catozzella, Alessandra; Vivarelli, Marco - 2007

innovative inputs on a sample of 3045 manufacturing firms drawn from the third Italian Community Innovation Survey (1998 …-2000). The interactions between four different sources of innovation – internal and external R&D, embodied and disembodied … technological acquisitions – have been simultaneously explo-red through the two (direct and indirect) testing frameworks for …

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Creating strategic advantage through entrepreneurial governance in new ventures

Audretsch, David B.; Lehmann, Erik E.; Plummer, Lawrence A. - 2007

An important literature has made a fundamental link between corporate governance and corporate strategy. According to agency theory, assigning managers stock options aligns their interests with the interests of the owners of the firm. This paper suggests that this may not apply in the context of...

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The use of knowledge management by innovators: empirical evidence for Germany

Cantner, Uwe; Joel, Kristin; Schmidt, Tobias - 2008

focus is on knowledge management practices implemented to increase collaboration between actors within a firm on innovation … innovation strategy targeted at consumers and continuous R&D activities is positively related to KM usage. In addition, more …

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