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The Economic History of Sovereignty: Communal Responsibility, the Extended Family, and the Firm
Börner, Lars; Ritsch, Albrecht - Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung <Zürich>; … - 2008
Economic institutions encompassing increasingly sophisticated concepts of risk-sharing and liability flourished in Europe since the High Middle Ages. These innovations occurred in an environment of fragmented local jurisdictions, not within the framework of the territorial state. In this short...
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Quantifying the Contribution of Technological Change to Economic Growth in Different Eras: A Review of the Evidence
Crafts, Nicholas F. R. - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2003
Most economic historians would surely endorse Paul Romer's view expressed above that technological progress lies at the heart of long run economic growth. Long ago Kuznets identified the epoch of 'modern economic growth' as one where growth came to be driven by scientific and technological...
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Collaborative leadership: new perspectives in leadership development
De Meyer, Arnoud - Judge Business School <Cambridge>
Leadership is often defined as the capability to successfully manage change inorganisations. The way one manages change is to some extent contextual and influenced bythe environment. The environment our future leaders have to operate in is quite differentfrom what we were used to in the previous...
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Labour markets in China: coming to terms with globalisation
Warner, Malcolm - Judge Business School <Cambridge>
the ‘MiddleKingdom’ and was for centuries a model of technological and economic innovation. TheChinese not only introduced …
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Does FDI spur innovation, productivity and knowledge sourcing byincumbent firms? Evidence from manufacturing industry in Estonia
Vahter, Priit - William Davidson Institute <Ann Arbor, Mich.> - 2010
Does FDI affect productivity growth, innovation, and knowledge sourcing activities ofdomestic firms? This study employs …
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Employee Participation and Corporate Culture
Martins, Erko; Pundt, Alexander; Nerdinger, Friedemann W. - Universität <Rostock> / Lehrstuhl für Wirtschafts- … - 2006
Continuous change characterizes current economic practice. Frequently, organizations are facing social, economic, political, technological, and ecological changes (Naisbitt & Aburdene, 1992; Kobi, 1996). To respond to these challenges adequately is essential for continuation and success of every...
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Integration of innovative users as source of service innovations
Skiba, Florian; Herstatt, Cornelius - Institut für Technologie- und Innovationsmanagement … - 2008
importance for radical innovation significantlydetermines both, choice of users integrated as well as choice of integration …
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Open Source Innovation – Characteristics and Applicability Outside the Software Industry
Herstatt, Cornelius; Raasch, Antje-Christina; … - Institut für Technologie- und Innovationsmanagement … - 2008
Motivation of this paper is to discuss that the open source model of innovation does not only seem practical in the … software industry, but also in various other industrial contexts. We develop the concept of Open Source Innovation (OSI) as a … the literature, we conclude that it is an innovation model in its own right, deserving more attention and research. We …
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Enabling and Sustaining Collaborative Innovation
Blecker, Thorsten; Abdelkafi, Nizar; Raasch, Antje-Christina - Institut für Technologie- und Innovationsmanagement … - 2008
the Open Source Innovation (OSI) model. OSI exhibits main differences to other related models and concepts such as the … private-collective model, commons-based peer production, R&D networks and is therefore an innovation model in its own right …
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Innovation via Global Route: Proposing a Reference Model for Chances and Challenges of Global Innovation Activities
Tiwari, Rajnish; Buse, Stephan; Herstatt, Cornelius - Institut für Technologie- und Innovationsmanagement … - 2007
Innovations have acquired a key-role in the growth and competition strategies of firms today.They are regarded as an essential tool to stimulate growth and enable firms to master thecompetition brought about by the forces of globalization. In developed countries they arethought to provide a...
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