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This paper examines one of the most important marketing strategies by software producers on the Internet. That is whether to offer free samples and if so, whether to list the samples on shareware repositories. I show that firms with higher value products have a greater incentive to offer free...
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performance of eco-innovation while a knowledge augmented production function is used to assess the impact of eco-innovation on … worker as the measure of firm performance. As a result it is not possible to assess the impact of eco-innovation on firm …Abstract Purpose - Recent OECD (2010, 2011) reports argue that eco-innovation is the key to realising growth. The …
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relationship between innovation, intellectual capital and organizational performance. …In a knowledge economy, innovation is the competitiveness key and the acquisition and dissemination of knowledge in … innovative capacity of the organization, but they may improve his performance. Managers can improve the rate and quality of …
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, frequently marked by dynamism, often by uncertainty and risk, sometimes even hostility, depends, crucially, on the innovation … activity. Innovation activity, formation of innovation potential is definitely influenced by motivational politics and the … reward system. The article reflects on the evolution of innovative activity, formation of innovation potential, motivational …
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To examine the productivity, employment and wage effects of ICT, we apply novel occupationbased measures of organisational change within firms. With these measures, we directly address the complementarities between ICT and organisational changes. Our results support the view that organisational...
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output performance. An econometric model is specified and estimated with Community Innovation Survey data for the Netherlands … divesting assets. Third, acquisitions motivated by knowledge barriers in the innovation process affect the probability of … positive innovative sales positively while acquisitions motivated by other reasons than innovation barriers affect this …
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In this paper we formulate a three-sector general equilibrium model where one sector produces a service or good used as an intermediate input in two other sectors. Intermediate input here resembles bureaucratic (in)efficiency/control, red-tapism etc. in light of these concerns we introduce...
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We apply an intermediation game of Townsend (1983) to analyze trade in an exchange economy through endogenous … intermediary will not be active unless some of its customers subsequently choose to trade with it. We introduce an "intermediation … core" and show that the subgame-perfect equilibrium allocations of the intermediation game are contained in the …
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This paper analyzes the behavior of horizontal B2B marketplaces along the supply chain in case a vertical intermediary tries to enter by attracting industry-specific buy-side and sell-side firms. It will be shown that an entrant can only integrate all firms along the vertical production chain in...
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This is a discussion of the manuscript "Local News Online: Aggregators, Geo-Targeting and the Market for Local News" by L. George and C. Hogendorn, presented at the 11th Workshop on Media Economics, which was held at the Recanati Business School, Tel-Aviv University, October 9-10, 2013.
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