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We use daily administrative data from a leading automobile manufacturer to study the organizational impacts of introducing new models to the auto assembly line. We first show that costly defects per vehicle spike when new models are introduced. As a response, the firm trains in problem-solving...
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We investigate factors that determine product innovation in network industries. We develop a demand …-pull-technology-push model of enterprise innovation and find that enterprise innovation depends on firm's specific abilities to extend the … industry. Enterprise innovation increases when consumers value the network development more and when consumers are less …
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This paper discusses the role that finance plays in promoting the capital development of the economy, with particular emphasis on the current situation of the United States and the United Kingdom. We define both "finance" and "capital development" very broadly. We begin with the observation that...
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greatest explosion of financial innovation the world had ever seen. Financial fragility grew until the economy collapsed into … the global financial crisis. At the same time, we saw that much (or even most) of the financial innovation was directed … attention to increasing funding of the innovation process. For that reason, we will look not only to Minsky’s ideas on the …
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Department for Human Capital and Innovation. It was completed in June 2014 and accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Department of …
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drive innovation. -- Entrepreneurship ; Development; Stages of Growth ; Globalization ; Innovation ; Index ; Knowledge …
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different innovation outcomes, using a firm-level dataset collected in the Pearl River Delta (PRD) in China. It also … innovation sales and to create new knowledge qualified for patenting. In addition to own R&D activities, they rely on sourcing … knowledge from different sets of sources to support them to carry out the last three types of innovation outcomes. -- Innovation …
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-collectivism. The model predicts that more individualism leads to more innovation because of the social rewards associated with … innovation in an individualist culture. This cultural effect may offset the negative effects of bad institutions on growth … individualism on growth through innovation. Using genetic data as instruments for culture we provide strong evidence of a causal …
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formation in terms of the types of strategy, organization, and finance that innovation requires, and emphasizes the …
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Southern firms in global innovation networks. A complementary exercise uses global bilateral patent data to investigate the … stimulate Southern innovation. …
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