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Are lone inventors more or less likely to invent breakthroughs? Recent research has attempted to resolve this question by considering the variance of creative outcome distributions. It has implicitly assumed a symmetric thickening or thinning of both tails, i.e., that a greater probability of...
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Today, firms employing two distinct survival strategies---(1) innovation and (2) imitation ---coexist in the U …
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In a wide variety of settings, organizations generate a number of possible solutions to a problem--ideas--and then select a few for further development. We examine the effectiveness of two group structures for such tasks--the team structure, in which the group works together in time and space,...
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actions beforehand). There are two fundamental strategies to manage innovation with unforeseeable uncertainty and complexity …
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Although spillovers are a crucial factor in determining the optimal environment for innovation, there is no consensus … that all innovation within an industry/region contributes to a spillover pool that has a common value for all firms. An …). We characterize and test the functional form of spillover pools for efficiency-enhancing innovation across 50 markets in …
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This paper empirically examines how business unit reorganization affects innovation, and explores how the learning … within a firm. Innovation is radical and involves product market entry by a firm into markets in which it was not previously … innovation to determine whether and how learning occurs in the presence of unit-level structural change. Theoretical support is …
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Innovation is defined as the development and implementation of new ideas by people who over time engage in transactions … framework to guide longitudinal study of the management of innovation. …
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In this paper, we model the formation of innovation networks as they emerge from bilateral decisions. In contrast to … a bilateral collaboration is determined by cognitive, relational, and structural embeddedness. Innovation results from …). Repeated alliance formation creates a network. Two features are central to the innovation process: how firms pool their …
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