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Profit-sharing and innovation
Aerts, Kris; Kraft, Kornelius; Lang, Julia - 2013
We investigate the effect of profit-sharing on product and process innovation. Profit-sharing is a credible commitment … that the introduction of profit-sharing only spurs product innovation. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010225531
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Profit-Sharing and Innovation
Aerts, Kris - 2014
We investigate the effect of profit-sharing on product and process innovation. Profit-sharing is a credible commitment … that the introduction of profit-sharing only spurs product innovation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013060795
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Allocation of Inventive Effort in Complex Product Systems
Ethiraj, Sendil K. - 2007
The paper examines the allocation of inventive effort in complex product systems. I argue that complex product systems (e.g., personal computers) are distinguished by functional interaction among several components each guided by a relatively autonomous bundle of technical and economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014026570
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Innovation and the international firm structure : theory and evidence from German firm-level data
Hansen, Thorsten - 2010
This paper studies the impact of innovation on the organizational structure. The theoretical framework predicts that a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003952118
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Innovation and the international firm structure : theory and evidence from German firm-level data
Hansen, Thorsten - 2010
This paper studies the impact of innovation on the organizational structure. The theoretical framework predicts that a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003953947
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Organisational change and the productivity effects of green technology adoption
Hottenrott, Hanna; Rexhäuser, Sascha; Veugelers, Reinhilde - 2016 - This version January 2016
This study investigates induced productivity effects of firms introducing new environmental technologies. The literature on within-firm organisational change and productivity suggests that firms can achieve higher productivity gains from adopting new technologies if they adapt their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011411433
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Beyond Product Architecture : Division of Labor and Competence Accumulation in Complex Product Development
Zirpoli, Francesco; Becker, Markus C. - 2009
other hand, firms are often confronted with a trade-off between the benefits of leveraging external sources of innovation … article offers managerial and theoretical implications for organizing the innovation of complex products …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014222516
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Strategic information disclosure and competition for an imperfectly protected innovation
Jansen, Jos - 2009
The imperfect appropriability of revenues from innovation affects the incentives of firms to invest, and to disclose … information about their innovative productivity. It creates a free-rider effect in the competition for the innovation that … strategic disclosure for the firms.profits and the probability of innovation. -- externality ; free-rider effect ; information …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003862257
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Pseudo-NK : an enhanced model of complexity
Valente, Marco - 2008
This paper is based on the acknowledgment that NK models are an extremely useful tool in order to represent and study the complexity stemming from interactions among components of a system. For this reason NK models have been applied in many domains, such as Organizational Sciences and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008729575
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Strategic Information Disclosure and Competition for an Imperfectly Protected Innovation
Jansen, Jos - 2009
The imperfect appropriability of revenues from innovation affects the incentives of firms to invest, and to disclose … information about their innovative productivity. It creates a free-rider effect in the competition for the innovation that … strategic disclosure for the firms' profits and the probability of innovation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012718722