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Entrepreneurship in China: Institutions, organisational identity and survival: empirical results from two provinces

Hendrischke, Hans; Krug, Krug, B. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2002

industrial ecology concentrates on new firms in given markets. It is contested in the following that the picture looks … show that 1. as predicted by approaches in industrial ecology both experimentation and selection were crucial in shaping …

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Some Economics of Digital Content

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

The music industry is currently subject to changes influenced by ongoing digitalisation and informatization that are unprecedented. Other sectors can expect to undergo in the near future what the media industry is going through now – the movie industry being a prime suspect. Each day, some...

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Empirical Tests Of Optimal Cognitive Distance

Nooteboom, Bart; Wuyts, Wuyts, S.H.K.; Colombo, … - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2004

This article provides empirical tests of the hypothesis of ‘optimal cognitive distance’, proposed by Nooteboom (1999, 2000), in two distinct empirical settings. Variety of cognition, needed for learning, has two dimensions: the number of agents with different cognition, and differences in...

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Global Sourcing

Mol, M.J.; van Tulder, van Tulder, R.J.M.; Beije, … - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2002

Since the early 1990s international - or even global - outsourcing of intermediate products from suppliers has been propagated as a key means to improve the performance of firms. It is argued that becoming more lean and internationally focused is beneficial for the buyer as well as for the...

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Modes of governance of new service development for mobile networks. A life cycle perspective

van den Ende, van den Ende, J.C.M. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2002

This paper focuses on governance modes for service development of mobile telephone networks (GSM, WAP, GPRS, UMTS). 'Services' refer to services embodying a specific content. The paper shows that the phase of the life cycle of the network and the service affects the choice of governance mode of...

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Innovation, learning and cluster dynamics

Nooteboom, Bart - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2004

This chapter offers a theory and method for the analysis of the dynamics, i.e. the development, of clusters for innovation. It employs an analysis of three types of embedding: institutional embedding, which is often localized, structural embedding (network structure), and relational embedding...

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Bridging Faultlines by Valuing Diversity: Diversity Beliefs, Information Elaboration, and Performance in Diverse Work Groups

Homan, Homan, A.C.; van Knippenberg, van Knippenberg, D.L. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2006

Although there are numerous potential benefits to diversity in work groups, converging dimensions of diversity often … disruptive effects of diversity faultlines can be overcome by convincing groups of the value in diversity. Groups were either … persuaded of the value of diversity or of the value of similarity for group performance, and they were provided with either …

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Interacting Dimensions of Diversity: Cross-Categorization and the Functioning of Diverse Work Groups

Homan, Homan, A.C.; van Knippenberg, van Knippenberg, D.L. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2006

We conducted an experiment to show how the interplay between informational diversity and other dimensions of diversity … can account for some of the inconsistent effects of informational diversity in previous research. 70 four-person groups … cross-cut the other dimensions of diversity. Results showed that informational diversity enhanced group functioning when it …

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Unity through Diversity: Value-in-Diversity Beliefs, Work Group Diversity, and Group Identification

van Knippenberg, van Knippenberg, D.L.; Haslam, Haslam, S.A. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2007

Research on work group diversity has more or less neglected the possibility that reactions to diversity may be informed … by individuals' beliefs about the value of diversity (vs. homogeneity) for their work group. We studied the role of such … diversity beliefs as a moderator of the relationship between work group diversity and individuals' identification with the work …

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How Embodied Cognitions Affect Judgments: Height-Related Attribution Bias in Football Foul Calls

van Quaquebeke, van Quaquebeke, N.; Giessner, Giessner, S.R. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2010

strength, power, and aggression, we argue that height is going to be one of the decision cues used. As a result, people are …

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