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We show that increasing the probability of obtaining a job offer through the network should raise the observed mean wage in jobs found through formal (non-network) channels relative to that in jobs found through the network. This prediction also holds at all percentiles of the observed wage...
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This dissertation analyzes why some VC-funded high-tech firms do not generate harvesting events for investors through a lucrative sale, either to another company or on the stock exchange. I investigate the effects of three signals of quality on failure and persistence. In the first essay,...
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Despite all planning efforts improvisation is a necessary, planning supplementing form of decision making, which finds … examined based on literature investigations of musical and organizational improvisation. Improvisation is defined as a … solution form which is necessary for the improvisation, thus this gets a content and time frame, a structure and a goal and …
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varying dyadic compositions are derived. The resulting core category "enriched compensation and improvisation" shows that …
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This paper, building on R&D integration and improvisation literature, explores how firms organize to jointly develop … planned organization did not suffice: interstices between the two firms exist and planning and improvisation are complementary …. Improvisation should be built upon a minimum structure and firms willing to accelerate their integration process can rely upon NPD …
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Academic communities in social sciences are still dominated by neo-positivist paradigm, but communities of practice developing social constructivism have started to redress paradigmatic imbalances. According to the latter man-made organizational reality is processual and saturated with...
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of creativity and improvisation combines with individual meaning-making processes to simultaneously generate innovation …
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Academic communities in social sciences are still dominated by neo-positivist paradigm, but communities of practice developing social constructivism have started to redress paradigmatic imbalances. According to the latter man-made organizational reality is processual and saturated with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010837632
The autotelic capabilities framework based on a multiple-case exploratory research is a first endeavour to describe the nature and dimensions of the entrepreneurial capabilities, necessary for new low-tech but knowledge-intensive ventures to create strong and knowledge-based competitive...
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