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Currents and Sub-currents in the River of Innovations - Explaining Innovativeness using New-Product Announcements

Dolfsma, Wilfred; van der Panne, G. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2006

In their seminal paper, Acs and Audretsch (1988) analyze innovation patterns across industries and identify several … innovation; industries characterized by increased shares of skilled labor and large firms provide favorable conditions for … innovation. By analyzing a new and more consciously compiled database, we re-examine their original claims. Our results largely …

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Appropriability in Services

Dolfsma, Wilfred - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2005

paper I take a closer look at one aspect of innovation in services: appropriability. I discuss the different elements that …

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Industry innovativeness, firm size, and entrepreneurship : Schumpeter Mark III?

Dolfsma, Wilfred; Velde, Gerben van der - In: Journal of evolutionary economics : JEE 24 (2014) 4, pp. 713-736

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The Process of New Service Development: issues of formilization and appropriability

Dolfsma, Wilfred - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2004

Services form an important part of the economy today. Innovation for service firms is as important as for manufacturing …, but the innovation process for service firms is comparatively little studied. In this paper, I review the literature there … is on the innovation process for service firms, and make two suggestions for formalizing that process. The common thought …

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Institutions, Institutional Change, Language, and Searle

Dolfsma, Wilfred; McMaster, R.; Finch, J. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2005

This paper endeavours to contribute to the growing institutionalist literature on the conception of the institution. We draw from John Davis’ (2003) analysis of the individual in posing the questions: what differentiates institutions, and how can changing institutions be identified through...

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Accounting as Applied Ethics: Teaching a Discipline

Dolfsma, Wilfred - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2005

In this article it is argued that there are notable parallels between all of the different strands within ethics on the one hand, and accountancy on the other that, in teaching, can be drawn upon to enhance students’ understanding of the latter. Accountancy, part of economics, draws on...

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Collective Consuming: Consumers as Subcontractors on Electronic Markets

Dolfsma, Wilfred - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2005

In this article, contrary to popular belief, it is argued on the basis of Transaction Cost Economics that consumers will become dependent subcontractors on electronic markets. Consumers invest time and effort building up a relation with a producer or e-tailer; an investment that is...

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IPRs, Technological Development, and Economic Development

Dolfsma, Wilfred - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2006

circumstances where knowledge & innovation play an increasingly significant role in the economy (Foray & Lundvall 1996, Cowan, David …

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Market and Society: How do they relate, and contribute to welfare?

Dolfsma, Wilfred; Finch, J.; McMaster, R. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2004

This paper discusses how markets and society relate to each other. We present and discuss three views: markets as separate, markets as embedded, and markets as impure. One’s stance on the contribution of markets to welfare hinges on the conceptualization of market and other spheres in society....

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No Black Box and No Black Hole: from Social Capital to Gift Exchange

Dolfsma, Wilfred; van der Eijk, van der Eijk, A.R.; … - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2005

In this paper, we draw on the literature about gift exchange to suggest a conceptualization of the emergence, maintenance and use of social capital (SK). We thus open up the black box of how social relations are established, and are able to indicate what can be meaningfully ascribed to social...

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