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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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We explore whether the introduction of trust based working hours is related to the subsequent innovation performance of … adoption of trust based working hours and innovation seems to be driven by the degree of control and self-management over …
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Im vorliegenden Bericht werden die Ergebnisse des Teilprojektes "Lokale Strategien für die wirtschaftliche Entwicklung" des europäischen Forschungsprojekts TRUSTEE ("Towards RUral Synergies and Trade-offs between Economic development and Ecosystem services“) beschrieben. Vor dem Hintergrund...
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Social innovation is booming as a political buzzword. However, the concept still lacks scientific analysis, a common … corporate social innovation by detaching the concept from the government and NPO sector. It suggests defining social innovation … by its social means and social ends. The term "social" not only refers to the non-material nature of innovation and its …
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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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This paper compares a firm's innovation and performance with its online Web presence measured through the Web network … centrality of a firm in the Web network and its innovation capability; and significant correlation between betweenness centrality …
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these skills to increase the efficiency of process innovation in the stages of idea generation and implementation of new … schemes ; innovative work behaviour ; user innovation ; organizational learning ; tacit knowledge ; kaizen ; continuous …
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CEOs, managers and non-managerial employees’ ideas enhances small firms’ innovation performance. A Heckman selection model … innovation performance. However, contributions depend heavily on the individuals’ area of expertise and on whether product or … process innovation is desired. Our findings enrich the current view on the entrepreneurial team, but also warn against the …
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important conditions for R&D cooperation and innovation. I begin by providing a "beyond-R&D" definition of absorptive capacity … cooperative R&D on incremental product, process and radical innovation. Employing the IAB Establishment Panel Survey on about 1200 … German innovation-based establishments during 2007-2011, findings demonstrate that adoption of employment practices …
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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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