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In times of increasing oil prices and a weak dollar, European companies that focus their business on the US market may find themselves in a weak position. While many businesses can hedge this kind of risk by relocating production to the US, or employing financial remedies, these strategies may...
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The delisting of brands is frequently used by retailers to strengthen their negotiating position with the manufacturers and suppliers of their product assortment. However, retailers and manufacturers have to consider the risk of potential reactions when customers are faced with a reduced or...
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Hippel. Today, a concept of a similar basis is known and developed in Europe under the name of User-Driven Innovation (UDI …The importance of users as a source of information for company innovation activity was raised in the 1980s by von …; NORDEN, 2006). Due to the growing significance of users as a source of information for innovation activities it is important …
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Deadlines are common in product development and are often felt to be too harsh - many development efforts are still worth continuing at the time of mandated termination. We examine the value of deadlines from the agency-theoretic perspective. We consider a firm that pays an agent to lead product...
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This article examines the global spill-over of foreign product introductions and takeoffs on a focal country's time-to-takeoff, using a novel data set of penetration data for 8 high tech products across 55 countries. It shows how foreign clout, the susceptibility to foreign influences, and...
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sustainable growth of agricultural systems and innovation rather than simply transfer of exogenously developed technologies … planning for innovation in agriculture …
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Innovation in marketing channels is a theme that has been treated in reference to specific areas of innovation or to … as a whole. This work aims to analyze the theme of innovation in marketing channels with a perspective focused on the … insights can be conducted to capture the extent and effects of the changes that occur, as a result of innovation …
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When an improvable durable good (such as packaged software) saturates the market, the seller could be tempted to release new versions too frequently, hurting her profit. A novel contractual device, which we term as a Free New Version Rights warranty (Free NVR warranty), can help the seller...
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is entrenched with their innovation. As a direct result, consumers tend to undervalue and developers tend to overvalue … such an innovation relative to the existing option. This is the "curse of innovation" and it systematically increases the …
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Marketing researchers often assume that innovation diffusion is affected by social contagion. However, there is …
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