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Enterprise Search in the European Union: A Techno-Economic Analysis
White, Martin; Nikolov, Stavri G. - Institute for Prospective Technological Studies (IPTS), … - 2012
The term ‘enterprise search’ (ES) refers to the information retrieval applications that use a range of different core technologies to search enterprise repositories. It includes the search of the organisation’s external web site, intranets and other electronic text held by the organisation...
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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 …
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Prospects of Mobile Search
Gómez-Barroso, José Luis; Compañó, Ramón; Feijóo, … - Institute for Prospective Technological Studies (IPTS), … - 2010
Search faces (at least) two major challenges. One is to improve the efficiency of retrieving relevant content for all digital formats (images, audio, video, 3D shapes, etc). The second is to make relevant information retrievable in a range of platforms, particularly in high diffusion ones for...
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Economic Trends in Enterprise Search Solutions
Benghozi, Pierre-Jean; Chamaret, Cécile; Compañó, Ramón - Institute for Prospective Technological Studies (IPTS), … - 2010
Enterprise search technology retrieves information within organizations. This data can be proprietary and public, and access to it may be restricted or not. Enterprise search solutions render business processes more efficient particularly in data-intensive companies. This technology is key to...
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Corporate R&D and firm efficiency: Evidence from Europe’s top R&D investors
Kumbhakar, Subal C.; Ortega-Argilés, Raquel; Potters, … - Institute for Prospective Technological Studies (IPTS), … - 2010
The main objective of this study is to investigate the impact of corporate R&D activities on firm performance, measured …
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The Development of US Policies directed at stimulating Innovation and Entrepreneurship
Audretsch, David; Aldridge, Taylor - Institute for Prospective Technological Studies (IPTS), … - 2014
This report explores how U.S. federal institutions fund and influence innovation in the knowledge economy context and if any agencies or particular policies could be replicated in other countries. Three key U.S. agencies are identified as having significantly contributed to innovation and...
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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...
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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,...
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