Narrow search
Showing 71 - 80 of 23,466
Cover Image
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010820765
Cover Image
KNOWLEDGE INTEGRATION DYNAMICS:Developing Strategic Innovation Capability
Kodama, Mitsuru - World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.
Since the 1990s, Japanese firms have sought to expand their capacity for innovation by incorporating Western management … successful — Japanese firms are presently at the forefront of technological and service innovation in areas such as digital … features: the vertical value chain model, cross-industry collaboration, dynamic knowledge integration, and strategic innovation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010883053
Cover Image
R&D and Growth at the Industry Level.
Cameron, G. - Economics Group, Nuffield College, University of Oxford - 2000
Although research and development is widely considered to be an important source of growth, relatively little is known about how its effects differ across industries. This is mainly because much reseach on the effect of R&D has used either cross-section or time-series data and the remainder has...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005549200
Cover Image
Why Firms Form Research Joint Ventures: Theory and Evidence
Röller, Lars-Hendrik; Siebert, Ralph; Tombak, Mihkel - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1997
The literature on research joint ventures (RJVs) has emphasized internalizing spillovers and cost-sharing as motives for RJV formation. In this paper we develop two additional explanations: product market complementarities and firm heterogeneity. We analyse a model of RJVs with asymmetric firms...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005662169
Cover Image
U.S. High Technology Clusters
Acs, Zoltan J - Centre for Research into Industry, Enterprise, Finance … - 1993
It is well known that both "Silicon Valley" and "Route 128 Boston" owe much of their success ot the proximity of Stanford University and MIT. Knowledge spillovers from large research universities contribute to increasing returns, resulting in divergent development between clusters. This...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005673164
Cover Image
Virtual marketing in virtual enterprises
Ale Ebrahim, Nader; Fattahi, Hamaid Ali; Golnam, Arash - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
Virtualization caused tremendous evolution in the economics of marketing channels, patterns of physical distribution and the structure of distributors and developed a new concept that is known as virtual marketing (VM). VM combines the powerful technologies of interactive marketing and virtual...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008784629
Cover Image
The Impact of Contestability on Prices in Manufacturing Industries.
Bosman, F. - NEUHUYS - RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR SMALL AND MEDIUM - 2000
The goal of this papr was to investigate whether contestability has an impact on prices in Dutch manufacturing industries. The major finding were: 1- Estimating the price equation in long differences appeared to be the best technique. 2- The variables capital intensity, import penetration and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005474400
Cover Image
Determinants of Manufacturing-R&D Co-location
Ketokivi, Mikko; Ali-Yrkkö, Jyrki - Elinkeinoelämän Tutkimuslaitos (ETLA) - 2007
The phenomenon of physical R&D-manufacturing co-location is interesting, because researchers have made very different observations regarding its prevalence. In some populations co-location of the two functions seems to be the norm; in others, an exception. However, we still do not have an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005749317
Cover Image
Standards, consortia, and innovation
Baron, Justus; Ménière, Yann; Pohlmann, Tim - In: International Journal of Industrial Organization 36 (2014) C, pp. 22-35
The development of formal ICT standards is a challenging form of collaborative innovation, combining consensus decision … panel of standards, we then confirm empirically the prediction that consortia have different effects on innovation under a … Public Good or Rent Seeking regime. Overall, we observe an increase in innovation after a firm joined a consortium. However …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010939744
Cover Image
Motivation and Sorting in Open Source Software Innovation
Belenzon, Sharon; Schankerman, Mark - Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics … - 2008
innovation. We exploit the observed pattern of contributions - the 'revealed preference' of developers - to infer the underlying …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008838711