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Design rules, volume 2 : how technology shapes organizations: chapter 13 platform systems vs. step processes - the value of options and the power of modularity
Baldwin, Carliss Y. - 2019
This is the first chapter in Part 3. Its purpose is to contrast the value structure of platform systems with step processes from a technological perspective. I first review the basic technical architecture of computers and argue that every computer is inherently a platform for performing...
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Design rules, volume 2 : how technology shapes organizations: chapter 15 the IBM PC
Baldwin, Carliss Y. - 2019
The IBM PC was the first digital computer platform that was open by as a matter of strategy, not necessity. The purpose of this chapter is to understand the IBM PC as a technical system and set of organization choices in light of the theory of how technology shapes organizations. In Chapter 7, I...
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Design rules, volume 2: how technology shapes organizations : chapter 3 transactions free zones
Baldwin, Carliss Y. - 2020
In Chapter 2 we saw that the most economical locations for transactions in a task network are the so-called thin crossing points—places where transfers are easy to define, count and pay for. However, in many places in the task network, transfers of material, energy, and information are so...
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Design rules, volume 2: how technology shapes organizations : chapter 7 the value structure of technologies, part 2 : strategy without numbers
Baldwin, Carliss Y. - 2020
Functional analysis as set forth in the last chapter decomposes a technical system into functional components that do things to advance the system’s purpose and the goals of its designers. Functional analysis in turn can be used to construct value structure maps of technical systems. Such maps...
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Competitiveness and ecological impacts of green energy technologies : firm-level evidence for the DACH region
Peneder, Michael; Arvanitis, Spyridon; Rammer, Christian; … - 2017
's ecological and economic performance. To identify the causal linkages, we build a system of twelve equations, first tracking the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011742717
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Competitiveness and ecological impacts of green energy technologies : firm-level evidence for the DACH region
Arvanitis, Spyridon; Peneder, Michael; Rammer, Christian; … - 2016
's ecological and economic performance. To identify the causal linkages, we build a system of twelve equations, tracking first the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011573225
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The organization of public-private cooperation for productive development policies
Cornick, Jorge - 2013
Productive development policies (PDPs)-what used to be called industrial policies-are increasingly recognized as an essential part of the development toolkit, and the need for public-private cooperation is increasingly viewed as a key element for the successful design and implementation of such...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011303824
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Varieties of deindustrialization and patterns of diversification : why microchips are not potato chips
Dosi, Giovanni; Riccio, Federico; Virgillito, Maria Enrica - 2020
Contrarily to the notion of a natural tendency of deindustrialization, this paper, documenting the existence of a variety of patterns of deindustrialization, performs a cross-country, long-term analysis. Looking at industrial sectors and their technological characteristics, categorised on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012214803
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The performance effect of environmental innovations
Soltmann, Christian; Stucki, Tobias; Wörter, Martin - 2013
such innovations affect performance. To analyse the relationship between green innovation and performance, new industry … results show that green inventions are U-shape related to performance. However, the turning point is quite high and hence only …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010319715
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Innovation in green energy technologies and the economic performance of firms
Kruse, Jürgen - 2016
on the economic performance of firms. My analysis is conducted on a panel of 8,619 patenting firms including 968 green … energy patenters from 22 European countries over the period 2003 to 2010. I measure economic firm performance in terms of … innovation has a statistically significant negative impact on economic firm performance. In contrast, nongreen energy innovation …
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