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Knowledge Management in the SME and its Relationship to Strategy, Family Orientation and Organization Learning
Zhou, Haibo - 2010
In this study, we examine the prevalence of different KM practices and the organizational determinants of KM among SMEs … by conducting a quantitative study of empirical data from nearly 500 Dutch SMEs. Our empirical results show that … knowledge is managed in a people-based approach in SMEs. SMEs are most likely to acquire knowledge by staying in touch with …
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Firms, Crowds, and Innovation
Felin, Teppo - 2017
The purpose of this article is to suggest a (preliminary) taxonomy and research agenda for the topic of “firms, crowds, and innovation” and to provide an introduction to the associated special issue. We specifically discuss how various crowd-related phenomena and practices — for example,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012945789
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The dynamics of resource allocation in research organizations
Filson, Darren - 2000
As a first step towards understanding the evolution of small groups in firms, this paper develops and tests a simple decision-theoretical model of research-unit evolution in which, as managers resolve their uncertainty over time, they shut down under-performing units and remove under-performing...
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Small firm innovation performance and employee involvement
Andries, Petra; Czarnitzki, Dirk - 2012
It is known that small firms rely mainly on the CEO’s individual knowledge for developing innovations. Recent work suggests that this approach is inefficient since it underutilizes other employees’ knowledge. We study to which extent using CEOs, managers and non-managerial employees’ ideas...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009509658
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Small Firm Innovation Performance and Employee Involvement
Andries, Petra - 2012
It is known that small firms rely mainly on the CEO's individual knowledge for developing innovations. Recent work suggests that this approach is inefficient since it under-utilizes other employees' knowledge. We study to which extent using CEOs, managers and non-managerial employees' ideas...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013103685
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Small Firm Innovation Performance and Employee Involvement
Andries, Petra - 2013
It is known that small firms rely mainly on the CEO's individual knowledge for developing innovations. Recent work suggests that this approach is inefficient since it underutilizes other employees' knowledge. We study to which extent using CEOs, managers and non-managerial employees' ideas...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013091490
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A Real Options Approach to Project Selection and its Application to NASA’s Small Business Innovation Research Program
Belz, Andrea; Eckhause, Jeremy; Terrile, Richard; … - 2021
We consider an important class of research and development (R&D) investments in public and private entities that require selection from a large number of proposals such that: (1) the potential monetary value of the proposals is not a first-order factor in the selection; and (2) the investments...
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Opening Up for Competitive Advantage – How Deutsche Telekom Creates an Open Innovation Ecosystem
Rohrbeck, René; Hölzle, Katharina; Gemünden, Hans Georg - 2014
When, on 21st September 2006, 'The Economist' compared incumbent telecommunication operators with dinosaurs that could soon face extinction, most readers were ready to agree. The mixture of declining revenues and fierce competition was believed to shake the market and soon to dethrone former...
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Determinants of propensity vs. intensity of innovation co-operation for SMEs
Cloutier, Amelie; Amara, Nabil - In: International journal of innovation management 22 (2018) 5, pp. 1840004-1-31
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Subsidized R&D collaboration : the causal effect of innovation vouchers on innovation outcomes
Kleine, Marco; Heite, Jonas; Rosendahl Huber, Laura - In: Research policy : policy, management and economic … 51 (2022) 6, pp. 1-24
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