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Resting on Laurels: A Theory of Inertia in Organizations.
Ruckes, Martin; Rønde, Thomas - Centre for Industrial Economics (CIE), Økonomisk Institut - 2003
We present a model where the employees of a firm have to search for profitable business projects in a changing environment. Employees who have found a successful project in the past period are shown to be reluctant to search for new and better projects leading to corporate inertia. This reduces...
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Motivation and Sorting in Open Source Software Innovation
Belenzon, Sharon; Schankerman, Mark - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008
innovation. We exploit the observed pattern of contributions - the 'revealed preference' of developers - to infer the underlying …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005789146
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Motivation and Sorting in Open Source Software Innovation
Belenzon, Sharon; Schankerman, Mark - Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics … - 2008
innovation. We exploit the observed pattern of contributions - the 'revealed preference' of developers - to infer the underlying …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008838711
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The Harsh Reality of Pursuing Innovations: Emerging Market Perspectives
Vuong, Quan Hoang - Centre Emile Bernheim, Solvay Brussels School of … - 2014
-based Stamford International University (Thailand) on November 1, 2014.Innovation is discussed as the heart of entrepreneurial … underscores economic competitiveness of firms and economies. But the innovation effort and process also face dilemma of … "entrepreneurial curse of innovation". Advantages and disadvantages are weighed for a more balanced view, especially in the context of …
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Trust-Based Work-Time and Product Improvements: Evidence from Firm Level Data
Godart, Olivier; Görg, Holger; Hanley, Aoife - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
We explore whether the introduction of trust based working hours is related to the subsequent innovation performance of … adoption of trust based working hours and innovation seems to be driven by the degree of control and self-management over …
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Out of the Crisis
Deming, W. Edwards - The MIT Press
According to W. Edwards Deming, American companies require nothing less than a transformation of management style and of governmental relations with industry. In Out of the Crisis, originally published in 1982, Deming offers a theory of management based on his famous 14 Points for Management....
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Mitbestimmung und Innovation aus Betriebsratsperspektive. Ergebnisse qualitativer Studien (Co-determination and Innovation from a Works Council Perspective. Some Qualitative Resear...
Stracke, Stefan; Nerdinger, Friedemann W. - In: Industrielle Beziehungen - Zeitschrift fuer Arbeit, … 17 (2010) 1, pp. 30-53
Innovationsprozesse festgelegt werden. (Innovation is seen as an important economic strategy for a company’s management. We discuss the … question how far works councils could positively influence a company’s innovation strategy in the long term and how far they … could encourage workers to participate in innovation processes. The objective of this article is, in particular, to analyse …
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La GRH en temps de crise(s) ? Pour une critique praticable, ouvrir le champ des alternatives
Picard, Hélène - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2013
ressources dont disposent les chercheurs en GRH pour repenser l’innovation managériale et contribuer à la création d …
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Can the Office Environment Stimulate a Manager’s Creativity?
Dul, Jan; Ceylan, Ceylan, C.; Aytac, Aytac, S. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2008
to an organization’s innovation. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010730933
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Harnessing the 'essential tension' of design: The complex relationship between the firm and designer consultants
Filippetti, Andrea - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
confirm that designer consultants can make a substantial contribution in enhancing firms’ innovation capabilities. We show … forward by firms to manage this relationship in order to gain a competitive advantage driven by innovation. Implications …
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