Search Results - Business Economics

Not All Scientists pay to be Scientists:

Sauermann, Henry; Roach, Michael - DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of … - 2011

A growing body of research on firms’ “open science” strategies rests on the notion that scientists have a strong preference for publishing and that firms are able to extract a wage discount if they allow scientists to publish. Drawing on a survey of 1,400 life scientists about to enter the...

Debt Financing of High-growth Startups

Fischer, Timo; Rassenfosse, Gaétan de - DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of … - 2011

We study the business model of venture debt firms, specialized institutions that provide loans to high-growth startups …

Performance Feedback, Firm Resources, and Strategic Change

Grohsjean, Thorsten; Kretschmer, Tobias; Stieglitz, Nils - DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of … - 2011

Combining insights from the behavioral theory of the firm and the resource-based view we investigate the antecedents of strategic change in fast-changing environments. We hypothesize the independent and joint effects of performance feedback and of flexible and specific resources on strategic...

How Journal Rankings can suppress Interdisciplinary Research – A Comparison between Innovation Studies and Business & Management

Rafols, Ismael; Leydesdorff, Loet; O'Hare, Alice; … - DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of … - 2011

performance of innovation studies units with business and management schools in the UK. Using various mappings and metrics, this … study shows that: (i) innovation studies units are consistently more interdisciplinary than business and management schools …; (ii) the top journals in the Association of Business Schools’ rankings span a less diverse set of disciplines than lower …

How University Departmens respond to the Rise of Academic Entrepreneurship? The Pasteur's Quadrant Explanation

Chang, Yuan-Cheih; Yang, Phil Yihsing; Tsai-Lin, Tung-Fei; … - DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of … - 2011

This paper examines how universities can develop a new organizational structure to cope with the rise of academic entrepreneurship. By deploying the Pasteurian quadrant framework, knowledge creation and knowledge utilization in universities are measured. The relationships between university...

Decomposing First Mover Advantages in the Mobile Telecommunications Industry

Eggers, JP; Grajek, Michal; Kretschmer, Tobias - DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of … - 2011

We study first-mover advantages and organizational pre-entry experience in a market with highly heterogeneous consumers – the global mobile telecoms industry. Specifically, we consider the fact that early consumers will be different from later ones. We suggest that early entrants will attract...

A Supply Side Story for a Threshold Model: Endogenous Growth of the Free and Open Source Community

Rullani, Francesco; Zirulia, Lorenzo - DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of … - 2011

The study of social institutions producing and disseminating knowledge has mainly concentrated on two main concepts: Science and Technology. This paper examines a recent institutional form that seems not to resemble either of the other two; that is, knowledge-intensive communities, where...

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 …

Manufacturing Agrarian Change - Agricultural production, inter-sectoral learning and technological capabilities

Andreoni, Antonio - DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of … - 2011

The aim of this paper is to investigate how industrial development, manufacturing in particular, has been contributing to agrarian change. In order to address this issue, it analyzes the technical bases and structural specificities – i.e. time and scale constraints – of agricultural...

California Dreaming? Cross-Cluster Embeddedness and the Systematic Non-Emergence of the 'Next Silicon Valley'

Breznitz, Dan; Taylor, Mollie - DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of … - 2011

The importance of social embeddedness in economic activity is now widely accepted. Embeddedness has been shown to be particularly significant in explaining the trajectory of regional development. Nonetheless, most studies of embeddeddness and its impacts have treated each locale as an...