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Can the Office Environment Stimulate a Manager’s Creativity?

Dul, Jan; Ceylan, Ceylan, C.; Aytac, Aytac, S. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2008

to an organization’s innovation. …

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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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Necessary Condition Hypotheses in Operations Management

Dul, Jan; Hak, Hak, A.; Goertz, Goertz, G.; Voss, Voss, C. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2010

Purpose – To show that necessary condition hypotheses are important in operations management, and to present a consistent methodology for building and testing them. Necessary condition hypotheses (“X is necessary for Y”) express conditions that must be present in order to have a desired...

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Human Factors: Spanning the Gap between OM & HRM

Dul, Jan; Neumann, Neumann, W.P. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2010

Purpose: This paper examines the claim that the application of human factors (HF) knowledge can improve both human well-being and operations system performance. Methodology: A systematic review was conducted using a general and two specialist databases to identify empirical studies addressing...

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Ergonomics Contributions to Company Strategies

Dul, Jan; Neumann, Neumann, W.P. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2008

Managers usually associate ergonomics with occupational health and safety and related legislation, not with business performance. In many companies, these decision makers seem not to be positively motivated to apply ergonomics for reasons of improving health and safety. In order to strengthen...

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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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Combining economic and social goals in the design of production systems by using ergonomics standards

Dul, Jan; de Vries, de Vries, H.J.; Verschoof, Verschoof, S. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2004

In designing of production systems, economic and social goals can be combined, if ergonomics is integrated into the design process. More than 50 years of ergonomics research and practice have resulted in a large number of ergonomics standards for designing physical and organizational work...

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An assessment system for rating scientific journals in the field of ergonomics and human factors

Dul, Jan; Karwowski, W. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2003

A method for selecting and rating scientific and professional journals representing the discipline of ergonomics and human factors is proposed. The method is based upon the journal list, impact factors and citations provided by the Institute of Scientific Information (ISI), and the journal list...

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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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