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Which Way to Grow? Merging, Allying, or Buying Assets

Habib, Michel A.; Mella-Barral, Pierre - Institut für Schweizerisches Bankwesen <Zürich> - 2006

We characterize the conditions under which firms choose to (i) merge, (ii) form an alliance, or (iii) trade assets. For that prupose, we distinguish between the firms' assets (what can be traded in isolation), thei knowhow (what can be learned but not traded), and their core competencies (what...

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The Economic History of Sovereignty: Communal Responsibility, the Extended Family, and the Firm

Börner, Lars; Ritsch, Albrecht - Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung <Zürich>; … - 2008

Economic institutions encompassing increasingly sophisticated concepts of risk-sharing and liability flourished in Europe since the High Middle Ages. These innovations occurred in an environment of fragmented local jurisdictions, not within the framework of the territorial state. In this short...

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Quantifying the Contribution of Technological Change to Economic Growth in Different Eras: A Review of the Evidence

Crafts, Nicholas F. R. - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2003

Most economic historians would surely endorse Paul Romer's view expressed above that technological progress lies at the heart of long run economic growth. Long ago Kuznets identified the epoch of 'modern economic growth' as one where growth came to be driven by scientific and technological...

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Collaborative leadership: new perspectives in leadership development

De Meyer, Arnoud - Judge Business School <Cambridge>

Leadership is often defined as the capability to successfully manage change inorganisations. The way one manages change is to some extent contextual and influenced bythe environment. The environment our future leaders have to operate in is quite differentfrom what we were used to in the previous...

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Labour markets in China: coming to terms with globalisation

Warner, Malcolm - Judge Business School <Cambridge>

the ‘MiddleKingdom’ and was for centuries a model of technological and economic innovation. TheChinese not only introduced …

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Does FDI spur innovation, productivity and knowledge sourcing byincumbent firms? Evidence from manufacturing industry in Estonia

Vahter, Priit - William Davidson Institute <Ann Arbor, Mich.> - 2010

Does FDI affect productivity growth, innovation, and knowledge sourcing activities ofdomestic firms? This study employs … subsequent periods. This isconsistent with the view that FDI inflow to a sector intensifies knowledge flows todomestic firms.... …

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Employee Participation and Corporate Culture

Martins, Erko; Pundt, Alexander; Nerdinger, Friedemann W. - Universität <Rostock> / Lehrstuhl für Wirtschafts- … - 2006

Continuous change characterizes current economic practice. Frequently, organizations are facing social, economic, political, technological, and ecological changes (Naisbitt & Aburdene, 1992; Kobi, 1996). To respond to these challenges adequately is essential for continuation and success of every...

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Integration of innovative users as source of service innovations

Skiba, Florian; Herstatt, Cornelius - Institut für Technologie- und Innovationsmanagement … - 2008

importance for radical innovation significantlydetermines both, choice of users integrated as well as choice of integration …

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Open Source Innovation – Characteristics and Applicability Outside the Software Industry

Herstatt, Cornelius; Raasch, Antje-Christina; … - Institut für Technologie- und Innovationsmanagement … - 2008

Motivation of this paper is to discuss that the open source model of innovation does not only seem practical in the … software industry, but also in various other industrial contexts. We develop the concept of Open Source Innovation (OSI) as a … the free revelation of knowledge between actors. Since OSI exhibits important differences to several related concepts in …

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Enabling and Sustaining Collaborative Innovation

Blecker, Thorsten; Abdelkafi, Nizar; Raasch, Antje-Christina - Institut für Technologie- und Innovationsmanagement … - 2008

the Open Source Innovation (OSI) model. OSI exhibits main differences to other related models and concepts such as the … private-collective model, commons-based peer production, R&D networks and is therefore an innovation model in its own right …

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