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The dynamics of resource allocation in research organizations
Filson, Darren - 2000
As a first step towards understanding the evolution of small groups in firms, this paper develops and tests a simple decision-theoretical model of research-unit evolution in which, as managers resolve their uncertainty over time, they shut down under-performing units and remove under-performing...
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Recombination of Ideas and Direction of Inventive Activity in Economic Growth Research : Evidence from the Journal of Economic Growth
Heikkilä, Jussi - 2022
We explore the inventive activity and recombinant ideas in the field of economic growth research by analyzing the Journal of Economic Literature (JEL) classification codes assigned to articles published in the Journal of Economic Growth. The average number of JEL codes, authors, keywords, pages...
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Non-technological and non-economic innovations : contributions to a theory of robust innovation
Roth, Steffen - 2015 - 2., überarb. Aufl.
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Non-technological and non-economic innovations : contributions to a theory of robust innovation
Roth, Steffen (contributor) - 2015
Although the label innovation is applied to almost everything, with even the diffusion of innovations to society being … called innovation, innovation research remains focused on bringing technology to the economic market. This dissonance … provoked the central questions discussed at the 2nd International Conference on Indicators and Concepts of Innovation (ICICI …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010532613
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Dynamic incentives in organizations: Success and inertia
Ruckes, Martin; Rønde, Thomas - 2010
We present a dynamic model in which an employee of a firm searches for business projects in a changing environment. It is costly to induce the employee who found a successful project in the past period to search for a new project. Past success can therefore result in profitreducing corporate...
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Coordination under the shadow of career concerns
Koch, Alexander K.; Morgenstern, Albrecht - 2009
To innovate, employees need to develop novel ideas and coordinate with each other to turn these ideas into better products and services. Work outcomes provide signals about employees' abilities to the labor market, and therefore career concerns arise. These can both be 'good' (enhancing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271239
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Coordination under the shadow of career concerns
Koch, Alexander K.; Morgenstern, Albrecht - 2009
To innovate, employees need to develop novel ideas and coordinate with each other to turn these ideas into better products and services. Work outcomes provide signals about employees' abilities to the labor market, and therefore career concerns arise. These can both be 'good' (enhancing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003816581
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Knowledge Flows Percolation Model – A New Model for the Relation Between Knowledge and Innovation
Popescul, Daniela - 2013
The present paper proposes a new way of thinking regarding the relation between innovation and knowledge using a … order to be transformed in technological innovation. In the Knowledge Flow Percolation Model center, human beings are seen … importance of knowledge flows in innovation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013074128
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Self-Sustaining Innovation Through Intrinsic Motivation
Molodchik, Mariya; Molodchik, Anatoliy - 2014
regarding the organizational design aimed at accomplishing self-sustaining innovation through behavior-based management. Using … case-study method the authors analyze the 20-years experience of successful sustainable innovation practice of the Regional … mechanisms of individual tension, knowledge transfer and retention. The entry to the innovation environment should be free and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014173206
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Innovations and Intangible-Work Biased Technological Change As Drivers of Productivity
Piekkola, Hannu - 2022
The paper analyses productivity driven by product-innovation duration, business (organizational and marketing …) innovation, and intangible-work biased technological change (IBTC) using a full register-based employer-employee dataset of … Finnish firms for the period 2000–2018 linked to Community innovation surveys (CIS). Innovations use as input occupational …
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