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What Turns Knowledge into Innovative Products? The Role of Entrepreneurship and Knowledge Spillovers

Block, Joern H.; Thurik, Roy; Zhou, Zhou, H. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2009

entrepreneurship with respect to economic performance. This paper uses the knowledge spillover theory to explain different innovation …-to-the-market innovation but has no effect on the relationship between knowledge and new-to-the-firm innovation. Our results using European … chances that knowledge will become new-to-the-market innovation. The findings highlight the importance of Schumpeterian …

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The Locus of Innovation in Small and Medium-sized Firms: The Importance of Social Capital and Networking in Innovative Entrepreneurship

Hulsink, Hulsink, W.; Elfring, Elfring, T.; Stam, Stam, W. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2008

Social networks matter in the innovation processes of young and small firms, since ‘innovation does not exist in a … vacuum (Van De Ven, 1986: 601).’ The contacts a firm has could both generate advantages for further innovation and growth … to either the internal sources or the external contacts to trigger innovation. And when a conclusive study has been …

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Commitment or Control? Human Resource Management Practices in Female and Male-Led Businesses

Verheul, Ingrid - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2007

This paper investigates the commitment-orientation of HRM practices in female- and male-led firms. A distinction is made between emphasizing commitment or control in the design of HRM practices. To test for gender differences use is made of a sample of 555 Dutch firms. Contrary to what is...

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Stages Of Discovery And Entrepreneurship

Nooteboom, Bart - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2003

In an attempt at a systematic theory of entrepreneurship, this paper connects various literatures, from economics and business. In economics, there are many notions of entrepreneurship, some of which seem to contradict each other. For example, there are notions of entrepreneurship as an...

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One and Two Way Packaging in the Dairy Sector

Bloemhof-Ruwaard, Jacqueline Bloemhof; van Nunen, van … - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2001

Choosing packaging material for dairy products and soft drinks is an interesting issue at the moment. Discussions arise on the costs impacts and environmental impacts of both one way packaging and reusable packaging. The aim of this article is to develop an evaluation tool providing costs and...

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A note on a multi-period profit maximizing model for retail supply chain management

van den Heuvel, Wilco; Wagelmans, Wagelmans, A.P.M. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2003

In this note we present an efficient exact algorithm to solve the joint pricing and inventory problem for which Bhattacharjee and Ramesh (2000) proposed two heuristics. Our algorithm appears to be superior also in terms of computation time. Furthermore, we point out several mistakes in the paper...

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A Polynomial Time Algorithm for a Deterministic Joint Pricing and Inventory Model

van den Heuvel, Wilco; Wagelmans, Wagelmans, A.P.M. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2003

In this paper we consider the uncapacitated economic lot-size model, where demand is a deterministic function of price. In the model a single price need to be set for all periods. The objective is to find an optimal price and ordering decisions simultaneously. In 1973 Kunreuther and Schrage...

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I Can’t Get No Satisfaction - Necessity Entrepreneurship and Procedural Utility

Block, Joern H.; Koellinger, Philipp - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2008

We study a unique sample of 1,547 nascent entrepreneurs in Germany and analyze which factors are associated with their start-up satisfaction. Our results identify a group of nascent entrepreneurs that “cannot get satisfaction” with their start-up because they did not choose to become...

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Entrepreneurship, Economic Growth and Policy in Emerging Economies

Thurik, Roy - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2008

Entrepreneurship has emerged as an important element in the organization of economies. This emergence did not occur simultaneously in all developed countries. Differences in growth rates are often attributed to differences in the speed with which countries embrace entrepreneurial energy. This...

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Joint Design and Pricing of Intermodal Port - Hinterland Network Services: Considering Economies of Scale and Service Time Constraints

Ypsilantis, Ypsilantis, P.; Zuidwijk, Zuidwijk, R.A. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2013

Maritime container terminal operating companies have extended their role from node operators to that of multimodal transport network operators. They have extended the gates of their seaport terminals to the gates of inland terminals in their network by means of frequent services of high capacity...

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