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Why do some leaders succeed while others fail? This question is important, but its complexitymakes it hard to study systematically. We examine an industry in which there are welldefinedobjectives, small teams, and exact measures of leaders’ characteristics. We showthat a strong predictor of a...
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We explore if the Knowledge Spillover Theory of Entrepreneurship, applied to FDI, provides at least a partial … explanation for the greater emergence of recent knowledge-based entrepreneurship in Ireland compared with Wales. In order to … examine how FDI and entrepreneurship policy in these two regions might have influenced the levels of knowledge …
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entrepreneurship literature is that opportunities are exogenous, the most prevalent theory of innovation in the economics literature …
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important mechanism is the spillover of relevant knowledge... …
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We present an equilibrium theory of the organization of work in an economywhere knowledge is an essential input in … designed to use and communicate their knowledge efficiently. Relativeto autarky, organization leads to larger cross … acquire knowledge lead to opposite implicationson wage inequality and organization than reductions in communication costs.[...] …
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The knowledge economy is nothing new. As Chandler’s (1977) classic study documents,improvements in communication …
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How does the formation of cross-country teams affect the organization of workand the structure of wages? To study this question, we propose a theory of theassignment of heterogeneous agents into hierarchical teams, where less skilledagents specialize in production and more skilled agents...
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these areas must put knowledge and information atthe center of the analysis of organizations and link the organizational …
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The aim of this paper is to analyze the effects of technological opportunities on the innovation activities of firms …, depending on their absorptive capacities. The importance and impacts of the ability of firms to use external knowledge sources … were inquired especially for external knowledge stemming from scientific research.... …
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This paper deals with the coordination mechanismus for R&D and innovation concering transnational corporations. …
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