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This article investigates the role of industry driven coordination mechanisms such as consortia and patent pools in the … international Standard Development Organizations (SDO), we investigate how informal standardization consortia and patent pools … influence the number and timing of patent declarations to formal SDOs. In spite of the increasing problems raised by the high …
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rely for employment have generated anemic productivity growth. Stable and equitable growth requires innovative enterprise … resource-allocation regime, unstable employment, inequitable income, and sagging productivity have characterized the U …
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This is the first chapter in Part 3. Its purpose is to contrast the value structure of platform systems with step processes from a technological perspective. I first review the basic technical architecture of computers and argue that every computer is inherently a platform for performing...
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The IBM PC was the first digital computer platform that was open by as a matter of strategy, not necessity. The purpose of this chapter is to understand the IBM PC as a technical system and set of organization choices in light of the theory of how technology shapes organizations. In Chapter 7, I...
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This paper examines the evolution of firm mark-ups across 26 countries for the period 2001-14. It also discusses and investigates empirically how this can be related to the degree of digital transformation in sectors. Four main facts emerge: i) mark-ups are increasing over the period, on average...
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A recent literature has emerged providing compelling evidence that a major shift in the organization of the developed economies has been taking place: away from what has been characterized as the managed economy towards the entrepreneurial economy. In particular, the empirical evidence provides...
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In Chapter 2 we saw that the most economical locations for transactions in a task network are the so-called thin crossing points—places where transfers are easy to define, count and pay for. However, in many places in the task network, transfers of material, energy, and information are so...
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