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Innovationsprozesse festgelegt werden. (Innovation is seen as an important economic strategy for a company’s management. We discuss the … question how far works councils could positively influence a company’s innovation strategy in the long term and how far they … could encourage workers to participate in innovation processes. The objective of this article is, in particular, to analyse …
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stock through firm-sponsored training might lead to more innovation. We test this hypothesis using detailed data on firms …' human capital investments and innovation performance, the Canadian longitudinal linked employer-employee data from 1999 … training leads to more product and process innovation, with on-the-job training playing a role that is as important as …
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The article outlines the background and action research strategy followed in a large scale development project in the Telemark region SW of Oslo. The project is a part of a national, tripartite, R&D programme, “Value Creation 2010”, which started in 2000 as a continuation of the series of...
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Innovation processes in organisations are subject to profound changes: For example economisation, standardisation, and … project “Smart Innovation” which studied impediments and promoters of innovation in the mechanical engineering branch. It …
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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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study shows that these social networks are an essential driver of knowledge integration and innovation. …
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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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In recent years, the economics of migration literature has shown a substantial growth in papers exploring host country impacts beyond the labour market. Specifically, researchers have begun to shift their attention from labour market and fiscal changes, towards exploring what we might call 'the...
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010334552
a theorical analysis to identify the practices that facilitate and encourage this sharing. Also, since innovation is … extremely dependent on the availability of knowledge, this article seeks to clarify the role of knowledge transfer in innovation …
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