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allocate resources to innovation and new product development (NPD) programs in a portfolio. Resource allocation and NPD … product development, and the relative balance in the NPD portfolio shifts toward incremental innovation. In addition, we …
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This paper draws upon research in the economics of technical change and in the social construction of technology to develop and test a process model of strategy. We conducted a longitudinal study of leading firms that were sponsoring new and competing product technologies in two industries: the...
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Interorganizational alliances are widely recognized as critical to product innovation, particularly in high …
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innovation at the store level. We find that greater decentralization enhances firm performance when stores' markets are …
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) innovation, and (3) information acquisition and distribution. In addition to its conclusions concerning the design features that …-making, innovation, and information acquisition and distribution to take on added importance in post-industrial organizations, and that …
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Using novel data on European firms, this paper investigates the relationship between business groups and innovation … group affiliation is particularly important for innovation in industries that rely more on external funding and in groups … knowledge spillovers are not the main driver of innovation in business groups because firms affiliated with the same group do …
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existence of complementarity. We use our empirical methodology to analyze complementarity between innovation activities … external knowledge acquisition are complementary innovation activities, but that the degree of complementarity is sensitive to … research centers as an information source for the innovation process--as an important contextual variable affecting …
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Over the past fifteen years, a number of studies have examined the determinants of firm R&D spending. These studies, however, almost invariably focus on the role of firm or external ownership characteristics in predicting R&D spending while overlooking the attributes of the top managers involved...
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(cheaper, faster, and better) and examine the impact of each on the timing of the firm's innovation decision. Contrary to …
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It is commonly argued that in recent years pharmaceutical companies have targeted their research and development (R& D) at small improvements of existing compounds instead of riskier drastic innovations. In this paper, we show that the bias in the pharmaceutical industry toward small innovations...
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