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Trading places: employers, unions and the manufacture of voice
Bryson, Alex; Gomez, Rafael; Willman, Paul - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2008
– especially union-only voice – has been associated with poorer climate, more industrial action, poorer financial performance and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011071128
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Participation in organisations: economic approaches
Marsden, David; Cañibano, Almudena - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2009
Under the auspices of the debate about high performance work systems, it has been suggested that the evidence of … economics broadly understood. It includes a meta-survey of research on the effects of participation on performance since the … argued that this is due in part to consideration of a wider range of performance outcomes, improved data and methods, and to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011071550
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Do Technology Diffusion Theories Explain the OSS Business Model Adoption Patterns ?
Koski, Heli - Elinkeinoelämän Tutkimuslaitos (ETLA) - 2007
This paper addresses the question of the software companies timing of adoption of the open source software (OSS) business models comprising the supply of OSS products and/or services. The game-theoretic technology adoption models do not explain well the observed diffusion patterns of the OSS...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005818351
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Mobility of ideas for innovation: The role of inventor-specific knowledge flows
Koski, Heli; Pajarinen, Mika - Elinkeinoelämän Tutkimuslaitos (ETLA) - 2015
words, the larger the knowledge pool of an inventor entering (leaving) the firm, the more the firm’s innovation performance … pharmaceuticals and mechanical engineering such that the mobility of an inventor to a firm increases its innovation performance but … the mobility of an inventor from a firm does not affect its innovation performance. We further find that particularly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011115239
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Knowledge Complementarity of a Firm’s Internal and External R&D Capabilities
Koski, Heli; Svento, Rauli - Elinkeinoelämän Tutkimuslaitos (ETLA) - 2014
We use data from over 1500 Finnish companies for the years 2006-2008 and 2008-2010 to explore complementarity of a firm’s R&D strategy with its external knowledge acquisition and innovation collaboration strategies. We define knowledge complementarity (tacit knowledge complementarity) of R&D...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010987362
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The Impact of Technological and Non-Technological Innovations on Firm Growth
Ali-Yrkkö, Jyrki; Martikainen, Olli - Elinkeinoelämän Tutkimuslaitos (ETLA) - 2008
This study investigates the relationship between innovations and firm growth, based on the data of Finnish firms operating in the software industry. We find that in terms of turnover and employment, firms with only technological innovations do not grow more rapidly than other firms. However,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005566055
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Interoperability and market foreclosure in the European Microsoft case
Kuhn, Kai Uwe; Van Reenen, John - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2008
In this paper we discuss some of the most important economic issues raised in European Commission vs. Microsoft (2004) concerning the market for work group servers. In our view, the most important economic issues relate to (a) foreclosure incentives and (b) innovation effects of the proposed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010746007
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Is there a market for work group servers? Evaluating market level demand elasticities using micro and macro models
Van Reenen, John - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2004
This paper contains an empirical analysis demand for “work-group” (or low-end) servers. Servers are at the centre of many US and EU anti-trust debates, including the Hewlett-Packard/Compaq merger and investigations into the activities of Microsoft. One question in these policy decisions is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011071318
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The growth of network computing : quality adjusted price changes for network servers
Van Reenen, John - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2005
In this paper we investigate the evolution of quality adjusted prices for servers motivated by two facts. First, the productivity acceleration in the US economy since the mid 1990s is closely linked to spread of information technology of which networked computing is a large component. Second,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011071546
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Do private equity owned firms have better management practices?
Bloom, Nick; Sadun, Raffaella; Van Reenen, John - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2009
across Asia, Europe and the US. These measures of managerial practice are strongly associated with firm-level performance (e … associated with broad based operational improvement in management rather than just stronger performance incentives. Finally …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010745737