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Quah, Danny - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2003

efficiency; provides further insight into why Open Source Software is a successful model of innovation and development in digital …

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A Note on Schooling in Development Accounting

Caselli, Francesco; Ciccone, Antonio - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2011

How much would output increase if underdeveloped economies were to increase their levels of schooling? We contribute to the development accounting literature by describing a nonparametric upper bound on the increase in output that can be generated by more schooling. The advantage of our approach...

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Human Capital, Matching and Job Satisfaction

Barmby, Tim; Bryson, Alex; Eberth, Barbara - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2012

Using a model of wage determination developed by Stevens (2003) we offer an explanation of why tenure has a negative effect when entered in job satisfaction equations. If job satisfaction measures match quality, then the explanation follows from a model of the labour market in which workers...

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Labor Market Institutions, Wages and Investment

Pischke, Jörn-Steffen - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2004

Labor market institutions, via their effect on the wage structure, affect the investmentdecisions of firms in labor markets with frictions. This observation helps explain rising wageinequality in the US, but a relatively stable wage structure in Europe in the 1980s. Thesedifferent trends are the...

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Learning Paths to Offshore Outsourcing - From Cost Reduction to Knowledge Seeking

Maskell, Peter; Pedersen, Torben; Petersen, Bent; … - DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of … - 2005

in which the offshore outsourcing of a corporation goes through a sequence of stages towards sourcing for innovation … low-cost countries: the insourcer/vendor may not only offer cost advantages, but also quality improvement and innovation …

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Interactive Learning Spaces and Development Policies in Latin America

Arocena, Rodrigo; Sutz, Judith - DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of … - 2000

learn, which are related with access to education and also with possibilities to apply knowledge creatively while …

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Lead Users as Facilitators of Knowledge Sharing in Community Setting

Jeppesen, Lars Bo; Laursen, Keld - DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of … - 2007

This paper introduces a model of knowledge sharing of lead users located in a public and unrestricted community of … users. While existing literature on knowledge sharing focuses on allocation and collaboration processes inside or among … companies we extend this to the community level. We then focus on how key agents — lead users — facilitate knowledge sharing in …

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Diversity of Innovative Strategy as a Source of Technological Performance

Llerena, Patrick; Oltra, Vanessa - DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of … - 2000

an external learning strategy aiming at absorbing external sources of knowledge. The results show that the co …

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Too Much of a Good Thing: The Role of Alliance Portfolio Diversity for Innovation Output in the Biotechnology Industry

Zidorn, Wilfried; Wagner, Marcus - DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of … - 2012

on innovation output. Previous literature has stressed that investments into the heterogeneity of partners in an alliance … influence on a firms innovation output. Furthermore, maintaining diverse alliance portfolios has an inverted U-shaped influence … on a firm’s innovation output, as managerial costs and complexity levels become too high. …

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Motivating Organizational Search

Baumann, Oliver; Stieglitz, Nils - DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of … - 2011

This paper investigates the value of high-powered incentives for motivating search for novelty in business organizations. While organizational search critically depends on the individual efforts of employees, motivating search effort is challenged by problems of unobservable behavior and the...

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