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The economics of knowledge regulation : an empirical analysis of knowledge flows
Häussler, Carolin - 2009
Successful innovation depends on the management of a firm's knowledge base. This paper empirically investigates the determinants of knowledge regulation. Using a unique survey dataset, the analysis suggests that R&D managers do not leak knowledge randomly, but rather regulate knowledge...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010443165
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The Economics of Knowledge Regulation: An Empirical Analysis of Knowledge Flows
Haeussler, Carolin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
Successful innovation depends on the management of a firm’s knowledge base. This paper empirically investigates the determinants of knowledge regulation. Using a unique survey dataset, the analysis suggests that R&D managers do not leak knowledge randomly, but rather regulate knowledge...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010599190
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Starting Up and Growing Stronger : Life Lessons from a Biotechnology Company
Vissers, Geert - 2013
Biotechnology is widely viewed as a field of economic activity that exemplifies a new (science-based, knowledge … other domains of biotechnology. To sustain this claim, we will describe the birth and early life of an entrepreneurial Dutch … firm in plant biotechnology. It will appear that this firm's biography deviates from the standard picture in many ways. It …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013073464
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Sustainability-oriented cross-functional collaboration to manage trade-offs and interdependencies
Szalavetz, Andrea - In: International journal of management and economics 54 (2018) 1, pp. 3-17
Despite a consensus view in the literature about the importance of cross-functional collaboration (CFC) for corporate environmental performance improvement, there is a dearth of studies that explain how exactly sustainability-oriented CFC can foster this objective. The purpose of this paper is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012027021
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The distinct features of hidden champions in Germany : a dynamic capabilities view
Rammer, Christian; Spielkamp, Alfred - 2019
Hidden Champions (HCs) are firms unknown to the wider public, but global leaders in the niche markets they serve. This paper looks at distinctive features of these firms, focusing on their dynamic capabilities. Employing a unique data base on German firms, we identify a representative sample of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011997801
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Evolutionary analysis of the firm and internal selection.
Jacoby, Nadia - Maison des Sciences Économiques, Université Paris 1 … - 2005
Evolutionary approaches of the firm devote a part of their analysis to firm behavior and to some processes acting inside the firm, however the internal workings of firms are, most of the time, not deeply analyzed. In this perspective, this paper attempts to investigate whether " we can drop...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005797781
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A Model of R&D Capitalization
Atallah, Gamal - Département d'Économie / Department of Economics, … - 2005
The paper studies the decision of firms to expense or capitalize R&D. In a two-period model, a monopolist decides on how much to invest in R&D and how much of that investment to capitalize, and then on each period's output. It is found that the firm has an incentive to mismatch the benefits and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008491445
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Organisation and location of academic sourcing at the firm level
Lhuillery, Stéphane - Chaire en Économie et Management de l'Innovation … - 2005
Thanks to the second French Community Innovation Survey, a measurement of the importance of public research organisations as a useful source of innovation for manufacturing firms is available. We thus provide an exploratory econometric model where the internal R&D organisation and location of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004984620
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Multinational Firms and Innovation: The Role of R&D Collaboration, Markets and Ownership
Lööf, Hans - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2007
In this paper, we examine the relationship between R&D collaboration, corporate ownership, market orientation and innovation. In doing so, we classify a Swedish sample of 1,249 multinational enterprises, MNEs, on the basis of their main market, corporate ownership structure and whether their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005190545
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A Model of R&D Capitalization
Atallah, Gamal; Khazabi, Massoud - In: International Journal of Business and Economics 4 (2005) 2, pp. 107-121
This paper studies the decision of firms to expense or capitalize R&D expenditures. The firm has an incentive to mismatch the benefits and costs of R&D, expensing a larger portion of R&D when the benefits occur in the long-run and capitalizing a larger portion when the benefits occur in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010598993