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Mixed Source
Casadesus-Masanell, Ramon; Llanes, Gaston - Harvard Business School; Harvard Business School - 2009
We study competitive interaction between profit-maximizing firms thatsell software and complementary goods or services. In addition totactical price competition, we allow firms to compete through businessmodel reconfigurations. We consider three business models: theproprietary model (where all...
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Challenges of open innovation: the paradox of firm investment in open-source software
West, Joel; Gallagher, Scott - 2006
Open innovation is a powerful framework encompassing the generation, capture, and employment of intellectual property at the firm level. We identify three fundamental challenges for firms in applying the concept of open innovation: finding creative ways to exploit internal innovation,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009460930
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Effort Estimation of FLOSS Projects: A Study of the Linux Kernel
Capiluppi, Andrea; Daniel, Izquierdo-Cortazar - 2011
productivity pattern. A further, cross-cutting characterization of developers could be achieved by associating developers with … of evaluating effort,productivity and types of activity globally and around major releases. They enable a comparison of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009463250
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Price response in multiple item choice: spillover effects of reference price
Kwak, Kyuseop - 2007
In this thesis, we develop a SKU level market basket model and apply the model to investigate cross-category reference price effects. This research extends previous work on the category-level multivariate logit model (Russell and Petersen 2000). Our model is a generalization of the multivariate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009466061
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Australia's mining productivity paradox: implications for MFP measurement
Zheng, S.; Bloch, Harry - 2010
This paper investigates the mining industry's poor productivity performance as measured by the conventional multifactor … productivity (MFP) index during the recent mining boom in Australia. We derive a relationship between the measured and 'true' MFP …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009434879
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Growth and productivity in Australia
Agbenyegah, Benjamin K.; Bloch, Harry - 2008
This paper empirically investigates and identifies the main contributing factors to output and productivity growth in … capital and ICT are important drivers of output growth in Australia, so their omission from standard productivity measures …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009434976
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A case study: Integrated work environment and organizational change
Heubach, J.G.; Montgomery, J.C.; Weimer, W.C.; … - 2009
The failure to integrate environmental and organizational interventions may help explain the lack of success of many change efforts. The high rate of failure for change efforts (50% to 90% failure rates) has been noted by many writers. While specific causes of failure are diverse, a common theme...
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Balancing the scales: Data on electricity supply and demand resources
Hirst, E. - 2008
, because of the need to improve economic productivity, and because state regulatory commissions will provide financial …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009435623
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India's cement industry: Productivity, energy efficiency and carbon emissions
Schumacher, Katja; Sathaye, Jayant - 2008
Historical estimates of productivity growth in India's cement sector vary from indicating an improvement to a decline … in the sector's productivity. The variance may be traced to the time period of study, source of data for analysis, and … type of indices and econometric specifications used for reporting productivity growth. Analysis shows that in the twenty …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009435632
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India's pulp and paper industry: Productivity and energy efficiency
Schumacher, Katja - 2008
Historical estimates of productivity growth in India's pulp and paper sector vary from indicating an improvement to a … decline in the sector's productivity. The variance may be traced to the time period of study, source of data for analysis, and … type of indices and econometric specifications used for reporting productivity growth. The authors derive both statistical …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009435633