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Empirical Tests Of Optimal Cognitive Distance

Nooteboom, Bart; Wuyts, Wuyts, S.H.K.; Colombo, … - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2004

This article provides empirical tests of the hypothesis of ‘optimal cognitive distance’, proposed by Nooteboom (1999, 2000), in two distinct empirical settings. Variety of cognition, needed for learning, has two dimensions: the number of agents with different cognition, and differences in...

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Innovation, learning and cluster dynamics

Nooteboom, Bart - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2004

This chapter offers a theory and method for the analysis of the dynamics, i.e. the development, of clusters for innovation. It employs an analysis of three types of embedding: institutional embedding, which is often localized, structural embedding (network structure), and relational embedding...

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Deviation Among Technology Reviews: An Informative Enrichment of Technology Evolution Theory for Marketing

Stremersch, Stefan; Sood, Sood, A. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2010

customers, and new market leaders. This paper examines the deviation among reviews of a technology’s performance and its …) from 1982 to 2007, the authors find that: (1) there exists vast deviation among reviews of technology performance leading … performance and, (4) both higher technology performance and a higher deviation affect sales positively, also when one controls for …

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The Management of Innovation in Project Based Firms

Keegan, Keegan, A.; Turner, Turner, J.R. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2000

Innovation is an important area of management theory, but there is a paucity of research on innovation in project based firms. Project based firms are simultaneously becoming a more vital and important organisational context, exemplifying many current managerial challenges. In this paper we...

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The Process of New Service Development: issues of formilization and appropriability

Dolfsma, Wilfred - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2004

Services form an important part of the economy today. Innovation for service firms is as important as for manufacturing, but the innovation process for service firms is comparatively little studied. In this paper, I review the literature there is on the innovation process for service firms, and...

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Learning And Governance In Inter-Firm Relations

Nooteboom, Bart - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2004

This article connects theory of learning with theory of governance, in the context of inter-firm relations. It recognizes fundamental criticism of transaction cost economics (TCE), but preserves elements from that theory. Two kinds of relational risk are identified: hold-up and spillover risk....

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Organisational Learning And Multinational Strategy

Nooteboom, Bart - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2004

Increasingly, it has been recognised that in their process of internationalisation multinationals may learn. They may take a strategy not only of exploitation, to leverage existing assets, competencies and products, built up in their home countries, but also, and perhaps even primarily, of...

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Stages Of Discovery And Entrepreneurship

Nooteboom, Bart - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2003

In an attempt at a systematic theory of entrepreneurship, this paper connects various literatures, from economics and business. In economics, there are many notions of entrepreneurship, some of which seem to contradict each other. For example, there are notions of entrepreneurship as an...

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What Turns Knowledge into Innovative Products? The Role of Entrepreneurship and Knowledge Spillovers

Block, Joern H.; Thurik, Roy; Zhou, Zhou, H. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2009

entrepreneurship with respect to economic performance. This paper uses the knowledge spillover theory to explain different innovation …

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A Matter of Life and Death: Innovation and Firm Survival

Cefis, Cefis, E.; Marsili, Marsili, O. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2004

demographics of firms according to their innovative performance and type of innovation are traced by using the Business Register …

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