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The Organization of New Service Development in the USA and UK
Tidd, Joe; Hull, Frank - Science and Technology Policy Research (SPRU), School … - 2002
We understand a great deal about the organization and management of new product development in the manufacturing sector, but we know relatively little about how applicable this research and practice is to the service sector. In this paper we introduce and test a framework for managing new...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005766963
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The Role of Multi-Level Regulation in the Transition towards Cleaner Production and a Circular Economy in China: The Case of Bao'an District, Shenzhen Under the 11th Five Year Plan
Ely, Adrian; Ping, Li; Kemenes, Fruzsina; Pusheng, Wang - Science and Technology Policy Research (SPRU), School … - 2011
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010612087
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Routines and representations at work - observing the architecture of conceptual design
Hales, Mike; Tidd, Joe - Science and Technology Policy Research (SPRU), School … - 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005588773
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Turbulence, Flexibility and Performance of the Long-lived Small Firm
Power, Bernadette; Reid, Gavin C - Tinbergen Instituut - 2003
in Scotland. New measures of flexibility and turbulence are used to explain the performance of mature small firms. These … depend on our unique body of evidence from interviews with owner managers. Performance is measured using a Likert scale over … performance. This is done in two forms. The first involves generalised least squares estimation (with heteroskedastic adjustment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011257108
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Unraveling the Shift to the Entrepreneurial Economy
Audretsch, D.B.; Thurik, A.R. - Tinbergen Instituut - 2010
significantly increased, and (2) a positive relationship exists between entrepreneurial activity and economic performance. However …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011257351
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Problem solving and the co-ordination of innovative activities
Brusoni, Stefano; Pavitt, Keith - Science and Technology Policy Research (SPRU), School … - 2003
In the context of increasingly globalized markets, ever more complex supply chains and international manufacturing networks, corporate decision-making processes involve more and more actors, variables and criteria. This is a challenge for corporate head quarters. Many have argued that the role...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005824802
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The Knowledge Bases of the World's Largest Pharmaceuticals Groups: what do Patent Citations to Non-Patent Literature Reveal?
Brusoni, Stefano; Criscuolo, Paola; Geuna, Aldo - Science and Technology Policy Research (SPRU), School … - 2003
This paper examines the knowledge bases of the world's largest pharmaceuticals groups by sales. It puts forward the concepts of knowledge breadth and depth as the relevant dimensions along which knowledge bases can be mapped. Breadth is studied by analysing the evolution of specialisation by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005824809
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Can the Large Penrosian Firm cope with the Dynamics of Technology?
Pavitt, Keith - Science and Technology Policy Research (SPRU), School … - 2001
technical performance with potentially disruptive effects on corporate organisation. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005766961
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The ICT Component of Technological Diversification: Is there an underestimation of ICT capabilities among the world's largest companies?
Mendonça, Sandro - Science and Technology Policy Research (SPRU), School … - 2002
This empirical paper analyses the importance of information and communications technologies (ICT) in the technological diversification trend among the world's large industrial firms. The objective of the research is twofold. First, to emphasise the emerging differences among technologies when...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005588790
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Authority in the Age of Modularity
Brusoni, Stefano - Science and Technology Policy Research (SPRU), School … - 2003
This paper builds upon on-going research into the organisational implications of 'modularity'. Advocates of modularity argue that the Invisible Hand of markets is reaching activities previously controlled through the Visible Hand of hierarchies. This paper argues that there are cognitive limits...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005588801