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Organizations that can successfully develop both radical and incremental innovations positively impact sustained competitive advantage, dramatically improving their chances of survival and success in both dynamic and stable environments (Han et al. 2001; Tushman and O'Reilly 1996). Experimentation...
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This dissertation is a collection of four research papers written during my doctoral studies at the University of Konstanz between October 2004 and November 2008. These papers are empirical studies dealing with different aspects in the field of university economics. The focus of the first two...
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I explore patterns in regard to community based Research and Development in the Water Supply and Sanitation sector. I set a bibliometric analysis, covering the 1998-2008 period, by means of applying a framework based on three factors: productivity, collaboration, and research topics, which are...
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The goal of this research is to elucidate the idea of integrated thinking, which was introduced in the Integrated Reporting (IR) initiative for the disclosure of non-financial data, because it has not been thoroughly studied and there is no consensus on its meaning. The literature on integrated...
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Teleworking is a form of organising and performing work, by which the employee works in another place than the work place organised by the employer and uses information and communication technology. The purpose of this paper is mapping the research trends of teleworking. For this, we conducted a...
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"The common-property literature has often focused on the question of efficiency. Here we consider distributional issues instead. How should the benefits of the commons (say, a fishery) be distributed? We approach the question from the viewpoint of ownership rather than income redistribution. "A...
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"Institutional approaches to social dilemmas have so far focused on how to create incentive structures that channel individuals' behavior into socially desirable outcomes assuming that everyone is selfish. However, the presumption of universal selfishness is not only empirically invalid but may...
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of the commons.' This dissertation combines the tools of game theory and experimental methods to gain a broader …
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"In this study, individual level behavior is investigated in the context of computer assisted voluntary contribution mechanism public good (VCM) provision experiments and common pool resource (CPR) appropriation experiments. Previous studies of these environments have concentrated on aggregate...
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"In past contributions to CPR theory, the issue of salience/dependence on a resource has been flagged up as a one of a … high. However, cases do exist of CPRs in which this assumption does not hold, and consequently, related theory proves to be … into question the possibility and utility of constructing a coherent CPR meta-theory." …
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