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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

The emergent “learning economy” is truly global in the sense that it deeply affects the whole world. The emergence of “learning societies”, though, is a process that takes place only in some regions, the patterns followed by this highly complex social process being far from converging....

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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...

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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

This paper explores the impact of diversity of innovative strategies of firms upon the industrial dynamics through a micro-simulation model. We consider two types of firms each one being characterised by a specific innovative strategy. Basically we assume that some cumulative firms adopt an...

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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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Learning and Skills in the Knowledge Economy

Ducatel, Ken - DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of … - 1998

knowledge (know-how and know-who). This paper extends this approach by arguing that the key vectors of innovation and growth lie …

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The General Profile of the Outsourcing Firm Evidence for a Local Production System of Emilia Romagna

Mazzanti, Massimiliano; Montresor, Sandro; Pini, Paolo - DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of … - 2006

organizational, production, industrial and innovation unit. Theoretical correlations between outsourcing decisions and outsourcing …’s resources and competences to eventually promote technological innovation seems more relevant than searching for lower costs by …

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Competence Accumulation and Collaborative Ventures Evidence from the Largest European Electronics Firms and Implications for the EU Technological Policies

Giarratana, Marco; Torrisi, Salvatore - DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of … - 2001

This paper analyses the association between inter-firm collaborative agreements and the technological capabilities of the largest European electronics firms between 1984 and 1997. To this purpose we collected information about 2,240 R&D agreements sponsored by the EU and 1,970 non sponsored...

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