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Innovation and R&D Activities in Virtual Team

Ebrahim, Nader Ale; Ahmed, Shamsuddin; Taha, Zahari - HAL - 2009

Innovation plays a central role in economic development, at the regional and national level. In the competitive … innovation and the strategic objectives that have been set, firms will regularly have to modify the way in which their R&D and … innovation are organized. Nowadays, shift from serial to simultaneous and parallel working in innovation has become more …

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Virtual Team Collaboration: A Review of Literature and Perspectives

Karoui, Myriam; Gürkan, Ali; Dudezert, Aurélie - HAL - 2010

Along with the widespread use of information technologies (IT) and the increasing geographical span of tasks held by various organizations, Virtual Teams (VTs) rose as an alternative organizational form which has the potential to deeply change the workplace. This article provides a review of...

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Virtual Teams: a Literature Review

Ebrahim, Nader Ale; Ahmed, Shamsuddin; Taha, Zahari - HAL - 2009

In the competitive market , virtual teams represent a growing response to the need for fasting time-to- market, low-cost and rapid solutions to complex organizational problems. Virtual teams enable organizations to pool the talents and expertise of employees and non-employees by eliminating time...

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Modern Management: Good for the Environment or just Hot Air?

bloom, nicholas; Martin, Ralf; Sadun, Raffaella; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008

We use an innovative methodology to measure management practices in over 300 manufacturing firms in the UK. We then match this management data to production and energy usage information for establishments owned by these firms. We find that establishments in better managed firms are significantly...

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The world upside down

Fabre, Guilhem; Grumbach, Stephane - HAL - 2012

R&D and innovation have become much more strategic than ever before for the growth of China as well as for its global … societal upgrade. The Chinese authorities have designed an innovation strategy to face new economic and social challenges. The …

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Half a Century of Public Software Institutions: Open Source as a Solution to Hold-Up Problem

Schwarz, Michael; Takhteyev, Yuri - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009

We argue that the intrinsic inefficiency of proprietary software has historically created a space for alternative institutions that provide software as a public good. We discuss several sources of such inefficiency, focusing on one that has not been described in the literature: the...

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Toward an Understanding of Learning by Doing: Evidence from an Automobile Assembly Plant

Levitt, Steven; list, john; Syverson, Chad - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012

Productivity improvements within establishments (e.g., factories, mines, or retail stores) are an important source of aggregate productivity growth. Past research has documented that learning by doing-productivity improvements that occur in concert with production increases-is one source of such...

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Learning by Doing in a Multi-Product Manufacturing Environment: Product Variety, Customizations, and Overlapping Product Generations

Egelman, Carolyn D.; Epple, Dennis; Argote, Linda; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013

Extending research on organizational learning to multi-product environments is of particular importance given that the vast majority of products are manufactured in such environments. We investigate learning in a multi-product facility drawing on exceptionally rich data for a manufacturing firm...

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Agglomerative Forces and Cluster Shapes

Kerr, William R.; Kominers, Scott Duke - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010

We model spatial clusters of similar firms. Our model highlights how agglomerative forces lead to localized, individual connections among firms, while interaction costs generate a defined distance over which attraction forces operate. Overlapping firm interactions yield agglomeration clusters...

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Acquisitions, Productivity, and Profitability: Evidence from the Japanese Cotton Spinning Industry

Braguinsky, Serguey; Ohyama, Atsushi; okazaki, tetsuji; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

We explore how changes in ownership and managerial control affect the productivity and profitability of producers. Using detailed operational, financial, and ownership data from the Japanese cotton spinning industry at the turn of the last century, we find a more nuanced picture than the...

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