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Anti-takeover Provisions as a Source of Innovation and Value Creation

Humphery-Jenner, M. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2011

-creating takeovers and increase innovation and do not induce agency con icts of managerial entrenchment. This implies that for innovative …

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Optimal Cognitive Distance and Absorptive Capacity

Duysters, Geert; Nooteboom, B.; Vanhaverbeke, W.P.M.; … - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2006

In this paper we test the relation between cognitive distance and innovation performance of firms engaged in technology …-based alliances.The key finding is that the hypothesis of an inverted U-shaped effect of cognitive distance on innovation performance …

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Cognitive Distance in and Between COP’s and Firms : Where do Exploitation and Exploration take Place, and How are they Connected?

Nooteboom, B. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2007

This paper contributes to the analysis of where and how both exploitation and exploration may take place inside and between communities and organizations. It connects with the discussion of differences between communities of practice and epistemic communities. The analysis allows for differences...

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Embodied Cognition, Organization and Innovation

Nooteboom, B. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2006

distance between firms for innovation by interaction. …

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Learning and Innovation in Inter-Organizational Relationships and Networks

Nooteboom, B. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2006

This paper gives a survey of insights into inter-firm alliances and networks for innovation, from a constructivist … myopia that, for the sake of innovation, needs to be complemented by means of outside relations with other firms, at larger … cognitive distance. Hence the importance of networks for innovation.On the governance side, the paper gives a review of …

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Service Value Chains and Effects of Scale

Nooteboom, B. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2007

This paper generalizes Porter’s notion of the value chain for the analysis of service industries. The generalization entails that the flow and the physical transformation and assembly of goods that are characteristic of manufacturing are generalized into flows and transformation of data and...

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The Industrial and Social Dynamics of Retailing, and Effects of Opening Hours

Nooteboom, B. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2005

and consequences. Among other things, it includes innovation in the form of the emergence and diffusion of successive … novel types of shop (including self-service), relations between large and small firms in innovation and diffusion, change of …

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Animal Spirits Meets Creative Destruction

Francois, P.; Lloyd-Ellis, H. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2001

We show how a Schumpeterian process of creative destruction can induce coordination in the timing of entrepreneurial activities across diverse sectors of the economy.Consequently, a multi-sector economy, in which sector-specific, productivity improvements are made by independent, profit-seeking...

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Network Embeddedness and the Exploration of Novel Technologies : Technological Distance, Betweenness Centrality and Density

Duysters, Geert; Nooteboom, B.; Gilsing, V.A.; … - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2006

In this paper we analyze the innovative performance of alliance networks as a function of the technological distance between partners, a firm's network position (centrality) and total network density.We study how these three elements of an alliance network, apart and in combination, affect the...

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Strategic Technology Adoptation Taking into Account Future Technological Improvements : A Real Options Approach

Huisman, Kuno; Kort, Peter - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2000

This paper studies a dynamic duopoly in which firms compete in the adoption of new technologies. The innovation process …

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