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Organizational barriers to technology adoption : evidence from soccer-ball producers in Pakistan
Atkin, David J.; Chaudhry, Shahid Amjad; Chaudry, Shamyla; … - 2015
This paper studies technology adoption in a cluster of soccer-ball producers in Sialkot, Pakistan. We invented a new …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011307885
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Organizational Barriers to Technology Adoption : Evidence from Soccer-Ball Producers in Pakistan
Atkin, David - 2015
This paper studies technology adoption in a cluster of soccer-ball producers in Sialkot, Pakistan. We invented a new …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013016271
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Business Groups, Innovation and Institutional Voids in Latin America
Fulvio, Castellacci - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
The paper presents an empirical analysis of the innovative activities of business groups in Latin America. It compares the innovativeness of group-affiliated firms (GAFs) and standalone firms (SAFs), and it investigates how country-specific institutional factors – financial, legal, and labor...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011260711
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The ecological system of innovation: A new architectural framework for a functional evidence-based platform for science and innovation policy
Yawson, Robert M. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
Models on innovation, for the most part, do not include a comprehensive and end-to-end view. Most innovation policy attention seems to be focused on the capacity to innovate and on input factors such as R&D investment, scientific institutions, human resources and capital. Such inputs frequently...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009295267
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Institutionalising Performance Management in R&D Organisations: Key Concepts and Aspects
Yawson, Robert M.; Sutherland, Alistair J. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
In an era in which accountability, cost effectiveness and impact orientation are at premium, Research and Technological Organisations are under pressure not only to improve their performance but also to be able to demonstrate this improvement. This pressure is particularly hard-felt by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009295268
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China’s Development Path : Government, Business, and Globalization in an Innovating Economy
Li, Yin; Lazonick, William - 2022
We employ the “social conditions of innovative enterprise” framework to analyze the key determinants of China’s development path from the economic reforms of 1978 to the present. First, we focus on how government investments in human capabilities and physical infrastructure provided...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014077435
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The Demand for Coordination
Dessein, Wouter; Santos, Jesus - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003
This paper endogenizes coordination problems in organizations by allowing for both ex ante coordination of activities … coordination. In particular, specialization is often non-monotonic in the importance of coordination. (ii) Organizations exhibit … specialized task assignments, to very flexible organizations characterized by extensive task-bundling, intensive horizontal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005497860
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Beer, Wood, and Welfare
Grimm, Michael; Peters, Jörg - 2015
Local beer breweries in Burkina Faso absorb a considerable amount of urban woodfuel demand. We assess the woodfuel savings caused by the adoption of improved brewing stoves by these micro-breweries and estimate the implied welfare effects through the woodfuel market on private households as well...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010478869
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Beer, Wood, and Welfare
Grimm, Michael; Peters, Jörg - 2014
Local beer breweries in Burkina Faso absorb a considerable amount of urban woodfuel demand. We assess the woodfuel savings caused by the adoption of improved brewing stoves by these, mostly female owned, small enterprises and estimate the implied welfare effects through the woodfuel market on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010481613