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For over a decade, The Wall Street Journal and The Heritage Foundation, Washington's preeminent think tank, have tracked the march of economic freedom around the world with the influential Index of Economic Freedom. Since 1995, the Index has brought Smith's theories about liberty, prosperity and...
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Die Transformation der Industriegesellschaft zur "Wissensgesellschaft" ist ein in vielen Punkten erst noch zu verstehender und zu erforschender Prozess. Man muss sich nicht lange mit der scholastischen Frage aufhalten, ob man aktuelle Umbrüche in Erwerbsarbeit und Gesellschaft unter diesem...
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Die Ressource Wissen als Bestandteil der unternehmerischen Wertschöpfung hat in den letzten Jahren stark an Bedeutung gewonnen. Besonders davon beeinflusst sind Branchen und Geschäftsmodelle, deren Wertschöpfung zu einem Großteil auf Erwerb, Erzeugung und Nutzung von Wissen basiert ...
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This paper analyzes a procurement setting with identical firms and stochastic innovations. In contrast to the previous literature, I show that a procurer who cannot charge entry fees may prefer a fixed-prize tournament to a first-price auction. The reason is that holding an auction may leave...
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For given product specifications by two competing firms the demand levels are determined by a randomly generated ideal composition of aspects. Firms can vary some demand. Although the product space is much too large to be explored systematically, we expect (and test for) rather reasonable...
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In this paper, we report on the results of a large-scale study about typical front-end-related innovation practices in 553 Japanese mechanical and electrical engineering companies. We explore typical activities concerning the generation and assessment of new product ideas, the reduction of...
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