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Evaluation of Workflow Management Systems - A Meta Model Approach

Rosemann, Michael - 2012

The automated enactment of processes through the use of workflow management systems enables the outsouring of the control flow from application systems. By now a large number of systems, that follow different workflow paradigms, are available. This leads to the problem of selecting the...

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The Nexus between Labor Diversity and Firm's Innovation

Parrotta, Pierpaolo - 2012

In this paper we investigate the nexus between firm labor diversity and innovation using a linked employer … and demographic characteristics to valuable firm's innovation activity. The latter is measured by: (1) the firm … firm's innovation outcomes …

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Construcción de un Índice de Regionalización Para el Sistema Nacional de Propiedad Industrial (SPI) : Una Aproximación Desde la Metodología de Componentes Principales (Constructing...

Campo Robledo, Jacobo Alberto - 2012

characteristics, generation of technological innovation activities and strategic location are to be the most convenient to locate …

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Numerical Algorithms for Deterministic Impulse Control Models with Applications

Grass, Dieter - 2012

In this paper we describe three different algorithms, from which two (as far as we know) are new in the literature. We take both the size of the jump as the jump times as decision variables. The first (new) algorithm considers an Impulse Control problem as a (multipoint) Boundary Value Problem...

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R&D Investments in Family and Founder Firms : An Agency Perspective

Block, Jörn - 2014

Investments in Ramp;D can influence a firm's ability to develop new products and to create and adopt innovative technologies that may enhance productivity. However, due to uncertainty regarding the outcome, investments in Ramp;D may lead to an agency problem between the owners and the managers...

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For the People and by the People : A New Proposal for Defining Industry Standards in Computer Software

Duane, Matthew John - 2014

My note, titled For the People and by the People: A New Proposal for Defining Industry Standards in Computer Software, focuses on the increasingly contentious world of standard setting organizations (SSOs) in the software and hardware industries, where industry leaders and upstarts alike jostle...

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Cluster Performance Reconsidered : Structure, Linkages and Paths in the German Biotechnology Industry, 1996-2003

Häussler, Carolin - 2014

We examine the evolution of biotechnology clusters in Germany between 1996 and 2003, paying particular attention to their composition in terms of venture capital, basic science institutions, and biotechnology firms. Drawing upon the significance of co-location of quot;money and ideasquot;, the...

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Technology and Real Estate Brokerage Firm Financial Performance

Benjamin, John D. - 2014

This study investigates the impact of Internet usage on the financial performance of residential real estate brokerage firms using a database of over 1,700 observations. Factor loadings and a factor score for Internet usage are developed. The results show that Internet use is positively related...

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Innovation and the Determinants of Firm Survival

Buddelmeyer, Hielke - 2014

-to-the-world innovation is inherently risky and therefore may increase the probability of firm death. However, many existing studies … fail to distinguish between innovation investments and innovation capital. Using an unbalanced panel of over 290 … innovation and survival and find that current innovation investments increase the probability of death while innovation capital …

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Are Scientific Indicators of Patent Quality Useful to Investors?

Hirschey, Mark - 2014

Together with the number of patents and the value of Ramp;D expenditures, scientific measures of patent quality give investors a useful basis upon which to judge the economic merit of the firm's inventive and innovative activity. Especially in the case of small cap and relatively low P/E high...

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