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Helping Small Businesses become more Data-Driven : A Field Experiment on eBay
Bar-Gill, Sagit; Brynjolfsson, Erik; Hak, Nir - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
becoming increasingly important. The adoption of analytics and DDD has been slower in small-to-medium enterprises (SMEs … increases, without increases in average prices. Our results suggest that analytics and DDD help SMEs establish a competitive … supporting the adoption of analytics tools by SMEs. Furthermore, policies supporting small businesses' transition to the data era …
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Gender Differences in Response to Competitive Organization? Differences Across Fields from a Product Development Platform Field Experiment
Boudreau, Kevin; Kaushik, Nilam - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
males and could be more inclined towards collaboration, instead. Were these findings to generalize to adults across the …
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Intangible Marketing Capital
Bronnenberg, Bart J.; Dubé, Jean-Pierre H.; Syverson, Chad - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We present several empirical facts about trends in marketing investment in the US. We also present estimates of the private value of brands to firms and aggregate intangible brand capital stocks created by these investments. These investments include the creation and maintenance of a brand name...
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Equilibrium vs Evolution in the Resource-Based Perspective The Conflicting Legacies of Demsetz and Penrose
Foss, Nicolai J. - DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of … - 1997
This paper argues that not only Edith Penrose, but also Harold Demsetz should be seen as a dominant source of inspiration for RBP scholars, that these two crucial influences hold different and even conflicting views of the economic process, and that they helped found different research areas and...
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The Emerging Knowledge Governance Approach Challenges and Characteristics
Foss, Nicolai J. - DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of … - 2006
The “knowledge governance approach” is characterized as a distinctive, emerging approach that cuts across the fields of knowledge management, organisation studies, strategy, and human resource management. Knowledge governance is taken up with how the deployment of governance mechanisms...
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Restructuring and Embeddeness Of Business Enterprises - Towards An Innovation System Perspective On Diffusion Policy
Teubal, Morris - DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of … - 1997
The paper deals with the policies for an idealized transition of a National System of Innovation (NSI) from a system reflecting a relatively closed industrializing economy to an NSI which reflects the conditions of a well-developed "Information Society" and "Learning Economy". The analysis of...
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Organizational Responses to Product Cycles
Adhvaryu, Achyuta; Bassi, Vittorio; Nyshadham, Anant; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We use daily administrative data from a leading automobile manufacturer to study the organizational impacts of introducing new models to the auto assembly line. We first show that costly defects per vehicle spike when new models are introduced. As a response, the firm trains in problem-solving...
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A Theory of Visionary Disruption
Gans, Joshua - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Exploitation of disruptive technologies often requires resource deployment that creates conflict if there are divergent beliefs regarding the efficacy of a new technology. This arises when a visionary agent has more optimistic beliefs about a technological opportunity. Exploration in the form of...
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The Social Dimension of the Learning Economy
Lundvall, Bengt-Åke - DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of … - 1996
This paper is a slightly revised version of Bengt-Åke Lundvall's Inaugural Lecture, the 10th of November at Department for Business Studies, Aalborg University. The general message is that the growing frequency of so-called paradoxes in economic theory and of unsolved socioeconomic problems...
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Return on Returns : Building Scientific Capacity in AIDS Endemic Countries
Fry, Caroline; Ganguli, Ina - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We estimate spillovers from public funding for health research in the context of the NIH's Fogarty International Center's AIDS International Training and Research Program, which aims to strengthen scientific capacity in AIDS endemic countries by providing African researchers with training...
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