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Leveraging Resistance to Change and the Skunk Works Model of Innovation

Fosfuri, Andrea; Rønde, Thomas - Centre for Industrial Economics (CIE), Økonomisk Institut - 2005

We study a situation in which an R&D department promotes the introduction of an innovation that results in costly re-adjustments for a production department. In response, the production department tries to resist change by improving the existing technology. We show that firms balancing the...

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Resting on Laurels: A Theory of Inertia in Organizations.

Ruckes, Martin; Rønde, Thomas - Centre for Industrial Economics (CIE), Økonomisk Institut - 2003

We present a model where the employees of a firm have to search for profitable business projects in a changing environment. Employees who have found a successful project in the past period are shown to be reluctant to search for new and better projects leading to corporate inertia. This reduces...

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Broadening monitoring and evaluation within reforming national agricultural research systems

Yawson, Robert M.; Sutherland, Alistair J.; Amoa-Awua, … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2003

practices (frameworks, methods and tools) that would enable research bodies to manage and demonstrate their performance and … experiences from the first phase of a performance measurement action research project within NARS in Ghana and Uganda 2. To raise … performance as an element of demonstrating developmental impact 3. To explore with key stakeholders opportunities for …

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Traduire pour aligner : une analyse par les pratiques de la conduite de projets de reconfigurations de systemes d’information

Renaud, Alexandre - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2012

In information systems (IS) research, there is a solid consensus in acknowledging Henderson’s & Vankatraman’s (1993) concept and model of strategy alignment. It provides a rational technical and managerial standard for optimal choice and management of SI. Paradoxically, many IS...

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Invisible Women: Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Family Firms in France during Early Industrialization

Khan, B. Zorina - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2015

Family firms are typically associated with negative characteristics, including lower tendencies towards innovation, a higher risk of failure, and inefficiencies deriving from nepotism among family members, criticisms which are even greater when the company is handed over to a female relative....

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Sustainable Prosperity in the New Economy? Business Organization and High-Tech Employment in the United States

Lazonick, William - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research

Lazonick explains the origins of the new era of employment insecurity and income inequality, and considers what governments, businesses, and individuals can do about it. He also asks whether the United States can refashion its high-tech business model to generate stable and equitable economic...

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Emergent Innovation and Sustainable Knowledge Co-creation. A Socio-Epistemological Approach to “Innovation from within”

Peschl, Markus F.; Fundneider, Thomas - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

Innovation has become one of the most important issues in modern knowledge society. As opposed to radical innovation this paper introduces the concept of Emergent Innovation: this approach tries to balance and integrate the demand both for radically new knowledge and at the same time for an...

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Designing an Optimal 'Tech Fix' Path to Global Climate Stability: Directed R&D and Embodied Technical Change in a Multi-phase Framework

David, Paul; van Zon, Adriaan - Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research … - 2013

carbon-free technical options requiring physical embodiment in durable production facilities, and having performance …

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Inteligencia estratégica: un sistema para gestionar la innovación

Aguirre, Joao - In: ESTUDIOS GERENCIALES (2015)

La inteligencia estratégica es un concepto tradicionalmente empleado en contextos militares, de defensa e incluso como «secreto gubernamental», aunque existen tímidas aplicaciones de índole académica y administrativa. El presente artículo realiza una propuesta conceptual del término...

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The Organization of the Innovation Industry: Entrepreneurs, Venture Capitalists, and Oligopolists

Norbäck, Pehr-Johan; Persson, Lars - In: Journal of the European Economic Association 7 (2009) 6, pp. 1261-1290

We construct a model where incumbents can either acquire basic innovations from entrepreneurs, or wait and acquire developed innovations from entrepreneurial firms supported by venture capitalists. We show that venture-backed entrepreneurial firms have an incentive to overinvest in development...

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