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Effective Virtual Teams for New Product Development
Ale Ebrahim, Nader; Abdul Rashid, Salwa Hanim; Taha, Zahari - In: Scientific Research and Essay 7 (2012) 21, pp. 1971-1985
At present, the existing literature shows that the factors which influence the effectiveness of virtual teams for new product development are still ambiguous. To address this problem, a research design was developed, which includes detailed literature review, preliminary model and field survey....
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Dynamic incentives in organizations: Success and inertia
Ruckes, Martin; Rønde, Thomas - 2010
We present a dynamic model in which an employee of a firm searches for business projects in a changing environment. It is costly to induce the employee who found a successful project in the past period to search for a new project. Past success can therefore result in profitreducing corporate...
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Innovation Activities Abroad and the Effects of Liability of Foreignness: Where it Hurts
Sofka, Wolfgang - 2006
The innovation activities of foreign subsidiaries have been identified as an important source of competitive advantage … foreignness). We derive potential stumbling blocks in the innovation process theoretically and argue that these materialize as … innovation activities in Germany from various sectors. We find that foreign-controlled firms are not challenged by liability of …
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Specialized search and innovation performance: evidence across Europe
Sofka, Wolfgang; Grimpe, Christoph - 2009
known about how the direction of search strategies influences innovation performance. In this paper, we argue that firms … that being open for innovation generally pays off. However, both moderating factors have a crucial role to play: On the one … novel knowledge and to enhance innovation performance. We develop targeted management recommendations based on these results. …
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Resource allocation flexibility for innovation performance: The effects of breadth, uncertainty, and selectiveness
Klingebiel, Ronald; Rammer, Christian - 2011
Our study shows empirically that the choice of resource allocation strategy affects innovation performance. A policy of … allocating resources to a broader range of innovation projects increases sales of new products, especially if these are truly … stronger for firms that allocate resources more selectively at later stages of the innovation process. Based on these results …
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Virtual Assisted Self Interviewing (VASI): An Expansion of Survey Data Collection Methods to the Virtual Worlds by Means of VDCI
Bell, Mark W.; Castronova, Edward; Wagner, Gert G. - 2008
Changes in communication technology have allowed for the expansion of data collection modes in survey research. The proliferation of the computer has allowed the creation of web and computer assisted auto-interview data collection modes. Virtual worlds are a new application of computer...
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Share to scare: technology sharing in the absence of intellectual property rights
Jansen, Jos - 2009
I study the incentives of Cournot duopolists to share their technologies with their competitor in markets where intellectual property rights are absent and imitation is costless. The trade-off between a signaling effect and an expropriation effect determines the technology-sharing incentives. In...
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Consumers activism: The Facebook boycott of cottage cheese
Hendel, Igal; Lach, Saul; Spiegel, Yossi - 2015
We study a consumer boycott on cottage cheese that was organized in Israel on Facebook in the summer of 2011 following a steep increase in prices after price controls were lifted in 2006. The boycott led to an immediate decline in prices which stayed low more than three years after the boycott....
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Social Media im Recruiting
Schwarz, Annika; Botzenhardt, Florian; Pätzmann, Jens U. - In: Markenbrand (2012) 1/2012, pp. 6-12
Die Autoren untersuchen im vorliegenden Artikel den Einfluss der zunehmenden Nutzung von Social Media auf das Personalmanagement. Dabei liegt der Fokus vor allem auf dem Bereich Employer Branding, weil die Veränderungen des Medienkonsums und Kommunikationsverhalten, die durch die Nutzung von...
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The effects of knowledge management on innovative success: an empirical analysis of German firms
Cantner, Uwe; Joel, Kristin; Schmidt, Tobias - 2009
The aim of this paper is to analyse the effects of knowledge management on the innovation success of firms in Germany …. Using a matching procedure on data from the German Innovation Survey of 2003 (“Mannheim Innovation Panel”), we pair firms … management on the share of cost reductions with process innovation. …
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