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Information Technology and Change in Danish Organizations

Jørgensen, Kenneth Mølbjerg - DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of … - 1998

organization instead of technology when implementing IT. Second, that the word IT apparently comprises powerful technical systems …

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Selective Intervention and Internal HybridsInterpreting and Learning from the Rise and Decline of the Oticon Spaghetti Organization

Foss, Nicolai J. - DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of … - 2001

, the ”spaghetti organization.” Recent work has interpreted the spaghetti organization as a radical attempt to foster … dynamic capabilities by imposing loose coupling on the organization, neglecting, however, that about a decade later, the … spaghetti organization has given way to a more traditional matrix organization. This paper presents an organizational economics …

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Globalisation of Innovation The Role of Multinational Enterprises

Narula, Rajneesh; Zanfei, Antonello - DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of … - 2003

This paper undertakes a brief evaluation of the trends in the internationalization of innovative activities. We provide a taxonomy of R&D internationalization strategies, and discuss the main relevant theoretical and empirical issues, before discussing the centripetal and centrifugal forces...

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Location and R&D Alliances in the European ICT Industry

Narula, Rajneesh; Santangelo, Grazia D. - DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of … - 2007

This paper shows empirically that in an intra-industry oligopolistic scenario the location of a firm’s innovative activities plays an important role in determining its partner selection in R&D alliances. Such a role is mainly attributed to a strategic use of R&D alliances as a means to limit...

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Subsidiary Embeddedness is a Strategic Choice: Complementarity and the factors associated with different types of embeddedness

Athreye, Suma; Batsakis, Georgios; Singh, Satwinder - DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of … - 2013

We conjecture that the Research and Development (R&D) subsidiary of a Multinational Enterprise (MNE) can be potentially embedded in three different networks viz. the science base of the home country, the science base of the host country, and/or the internal knowledge network of sister...

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Organizing Innovation Complementarities between Cross-Functional Teams

Love, James H.; Roper, Stephen; Mangiarotti, Giovanni - DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of … - 2006

Cross-functional teams play a potentially important part in the innovation process enabling knowledge sharing, the development of trust and overcoming spatial and organizational barriers. Using a supermodularity approach, we focus on potential complementarities which may arise when...

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Searching Low and High What Types of Firms use Universities as a Source of Innovation?

Laursen, Keld; Salter, Ammon - DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of … - 2003

This paper examines the factors that influence whether firms draw from universities in their innovative activities. The link between the universities and industrial innovation, and the role of different search strategies in influencing the propensity of firms to use universities is explored. The...

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What do you mean by "mobile"? Multi-applicant inventors in the European Bio-Technology Industry

Laforgia, Francesco; Lissoni, Francesco - DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of … - 2006

Many recent papers dealing with the issue of knowledge spillovers have relied on patent data to extract information on so-called mobile inventors that is inventors designated by patent applications filed by different companies. In this paper we follow in this tradition, but with the aim of...

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Licensing Strategies of the Enterprising - but Vulnerable - "Intellectual Property" Vendors

Davis, Lee - DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of … - 2006

This paper investigates in an exploratory manner the licensing strategies pursued by firms whose business model is based on developing and licensing out their intellectual property rights (IPRs). These are not traditional suppliers, since they do not engage in production or commercialization,...

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Innovation, Learning Organizations and Industrial Relations

Nielsen, Peter; Lundvall, Bengt-Åke - DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of … - 2003

organization’ where horizontal interaction and communication inside and across the borders of the firm is a major factor promoting … of employees in shaping the new form of organization is critical for its realization. On the basis of a unique data set … organization are much more prone to introduce new products than the others. It is also demonstrated that such firms have involved …

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