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their innovation activities in response to the potential entry of direct competitors. We then examine a legal ruling that … firms increased their net innovation activities in response to competitive entry. These effects center on firms with … innovation by new entrants after the ruling in response to increased competition. Overall, these results are consistent with …
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This paper introduces a 2018 innovation survey of 300 large firms sampled to be representative of corporate innovation … in 8 countries from around the world. Senior innovation leaders at these large companies were asked more than 100 … questions about how they innovate and which internal and external innovation sources they use. These questions also gathered …
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Building on prior research on distributed teams that has identified physical and temporal distance as impediments to collaboration and relationship development, this paper explores how and why we treat geographically distant others differently from those who are proximal. According to construal...
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Virtual teams are essential to the functioning of an increasing number of organizations. They have been the subject of much research, resulting in a growing body of literature on the topic. Nevertheless, we still lack an integrated understanding of what drives virtual team dynamics and...
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While argumentation tools represent a promising avenue for exploiting the Internet's vast potential for enabling collective intelligence, they have to date been applied almost exclusively to small-scale, usually centrally facilitated, groups. This paper explores some of the issues and design...
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Firms increasingly look outside their organizational boundaries to identify partners that can improve the effectiveness of R&D projects. The strategy for using partners, however, varies significantly across projects. In some, partners are used primarily to lower development costs and/or...
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We develop a simple theoretical framework for thinking about how geographic frictions, and in particular travel costs, shape scientists' collaboration decisions and the types of projects that are developed locally versus over distance. We then take advantage of a quasi-experiment - the...
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