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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 4 the mirroring hypothesis : linkages inside and across transaction free zones

Baldwin, Carliss Y. - 2020

A technology is a specific way to achieve a material goal. It describes a feasible path—a recipe—by which a group of people can arrive at a goal that none could achieve individually. Technical recipes thus require linkages between and among the various contributors to the technical...

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Design rules, volume 2: how technology shapes organizations : chapter 5 ecosystems and complementarities

Baldwin, Carliss Y. - 2020

The purpose of this chapter is to introduce two new building blocks to the theory of how technology shapes organizations. The first is a new layer of organization structure: a business “ecosystem.” The second is the economic concept of “complementarity.” Ecosystems are groups of...

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Design rules, volume 2: how technology shapes organizations : chapter 6 the value structure of technologies, part 1 : mapping functional relationships

Baldwin, Carliss Y. - 2020

Organizations are formed in a free economy because an individual or group perceives value in carrying out a technical recipe that is beyond the capacity of a single person. Technology specifies what must be done, what resources must be assembled, what actions taken in order to convert stocks of...

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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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Why big data can make creative destruction more creative - but less destructive

Norbäck, Pehr-Johan; Persson, Lars - 2023

The application of machine learning (ML) to big data has become increasingly important. We propose a model where firms have access to the same ML, but incumbents have access to historical data. We show that big data raises entrepreneurial barriers making the creative destruction process less...

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Least-developed countries, transfer of technology and the TRIPS Agreement

Watal, Jayashree; Caminero, Leticia - 2018 - Manuscript date: November 2017

This paper examines the background of Article 66.2 of the TRIPS Agreement, the nature of this obligation on developed country Members that pertains to the promotion of technology transfer to LDC Members and how it is being implemented and how such implementation is being monitored in the TRIPS...

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World Management Survey at 18: lessons and the way forward

Scur, Daniela; Sadun, Raffaella; Van Reenen, John; … - 2021

managerial talent, relates to organizational performance. Over 18 years of research, a set of consistent patterns have emerged …

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The impact of a new quality management practice on firm performance: evidence from Pakistan

Faran, Mahvish; Taylor, Karl - 2021

This paper uses a novel firm level data set to investigate the impact of a unique quality management practice on the production and productivity of a large-scale garments manufacturer in Pakistan. The analysis provides evidence that production complexity is an important element in determining...

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Measuring operational excellence performance : a mixed-methods conceptualization and application in pharmaceutical quality control laboratories

Köhler, Stephan Alexander - 2019

Operational Excellence (OPEX) ist ein wesentlicher Treiber nachhaltiger Performance von Unternehmen. Bisher haben sich … zunehmendes Interesse an OPEX in QK Laboren als bis dato unausgeschöpfter Performance Treiber. In der Literatur sind generische … Exzellenzmodelle festgehalten, jedoch wurde deren Übertragung auf spezifische Kontexte vernachlässigt. Die Performance Measurement …

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