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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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Outsourcing, Delocalization and Firm Organization: Transaction Costs vs. Industrial Relations in a Local Production System of Emilia-Romagna

Mazzanti, Massimiliano; Montresor, Sandro; Pini, Paolo - DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of … - 2008

The paper aims at investigating how far transaction costs economics (TCE) concurs in the explanation of outsourcing decisions in firms characterized by “thick’ industrial relations, that is where unions and employees are involved in, and are sometimes able to affect, the relative managerial...

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The Estonian ICT Manufacturing and Software Industry: Current State and Future Outlook

Kalvet, Tarmo - EconWPA - 2004

with a closer look at the challenges for the Estonian ICT sector innovation system. …

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Technological change: An analysis of the diffusion and implications of e-business technologies

Koellinger, Philipp - EconWPA - 2005

2002. In addition, the adoption of new e-business technologies by firms creates opportunities to conduct innovation, either …

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Relaciones interindustriales y difusión de la innovación: una aproximación desde la Teoría de Redes

García, Ana Salomé; Morillas, Antonio; Rueda, Carmen - EconWPA - 2005

El análisis input-output es una herramienta de gran potencialidad que permite profundizar en el conocimiento de la estructura productiva de un espacio económico. Por otro lado, el entramado sectorial constituye uno de los posibles factores determinantes en la capacidad de innovación de un...

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