Search Results - subject:"Exploration and exploitation"

Cognitive Distance in and Between COP’s and Firms : Where do Exploitation and Exploration take Place, and How are they Connected?

Nooteboom, B. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2007

This paper contributes to the analysis of where and how both exploitation and exploration may take place inside and between communities and organizations. It connects with the discussion of differences between communities of practice and epistemic communities. The analysis allows for differences...

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Optimal Cognitive Distance and Absorptive Capacity

Duysters, Geert; Nooteboom, B.; Vanhaverbeke, W.P.M.; … - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2006

In this paper we test the relation between cognitive distance and innovation performance of firms engaged in technology-based alliances.The key finding is that the hypothesis of an inverted U-shaped effect of cognitive distance on innovation performance of firms is confirmed.Moreover, as...

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AMBIGUITY AND LEARNING IN THE INNOVATION PROCESS: MANAGING EXPLOITATION-EXPLOITATION BY BALANCING CREATIVITY AND CONSTRAINT REVISITED

SÆTRE, ALF STEINAR; BRUN, ERIC - In: International Journal of Innovation and Technology … 10 (2013) 04, pp. 1350014-1

In this paper, we explicate the details of the management of ambiguity and the balancing of creativity and constraint as it relates to organizations' absorptive capacity. The innovation process is characterized by cycles of expensive (explorative) activity where ambiguity increases, and...

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Ambiguity and learning in the innovation process : managing exploitation-exploitation by balancing crativity and constraint revisited

Sætre, Alf Steinar; Brun, Eric - In: International journal of innovation and technology … 10 (2013) 4, pp. 1-9

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An efficient frontier in organization design : organizational structure as a determinant of exploration and exploitation

Csaszar, Felipe A. - In: Organization science : a journal of the Institute for … 24 (2013) 4, pp. 1083-1101

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Exploration and exploitation strategies. What kind of analytical models ?

Jacoby, Nadia - HAL - 2005

This paper gives some insights related to the combination of exploration and exploitation behaviors. A recurrent … question for firms deals with this blend of exploration and exploitation mechanisms. Firms are engaged in new activities like … adaptive systems through exploration and exploitation behaviors of firms. In order to better understand the temporal …

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Exploration and exploitation strategies. What kind of analytical models ?

Jacoby, Nadia - Maison des Sciences Économiques, Université Paris 1 … - 2005

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How clusters evolve

Zettinig, Peter; Vincze, Zsuzsanna - In: Competitiveness Review: An International Business Journal 22 (2012) 2, pp. 110-132

exploration and exploitation processes, the authors find that balancing processes are also critical. Practical implications – The … of clusters in general. Originality/value – This work is original in the sense that it extends March's exploration and … exploitation theory, applies it to the inter‐organisational context of clusters, and links the two processes through a process of …

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Structure and Dynamics of a "T-Shaped" Knowledge: From Individuals to Cooperating Communities of Practice

Barile, Sergio; Franco, Giacomo; Nota, Giancarlo; … - In: Service Science 4 (2012) 2, pp. 161-180

In a fast-changing environment, organizations face conditions of growing complexity that challenge decision-making and innovation activities, highlighting an increasing need to develop dynamic capabilities. In this scenario, our focus is on service science's recent call for "T-shaped...

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STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT OF INNOVATION: MANAGING EXPLORATION-EXPLOITATION BY BALANCING CREATIVITY AND CONSTRAINT

SÆTRE, ALF STEINAR; BRUN, ERIC - In: International Journal of Innovation and Technology … 09 (2012) 04, pp. 1250025-1

This paper offers a model for effectively managing ambiguity at the fuzzy front end of innovation projects. We conducted in-depth studies of four new product development projects from the medical device industry. Through the abductive process of iterative grounded theory we built a model of the...

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