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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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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 …
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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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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...
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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 …
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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 …
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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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We present a taxonomy of myopic stability concepts for hedonic games in terms of deviations, and discuss the status of the existence problems of stable coalition structures. In particular, we show that contractual strictly core stable coalition structures always exist, and provide sufficient...
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This paper studies whether structural properties of friendship networks affect individual outcomes in education. We first develop a model that shows that, at the Nash equilibrium, the outcome of each individual embedded in a network is proportional to her Katz-Bonacich centrality measure. This...
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We develop a model in which non-white individuals are defined with respect to their social environment (family, friends, neighbors) and their attachments to their culture of origin (religion, language), and in which jobs are mainly found through social networks. We find that, depending on how...
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