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Earnings-Tenure Profiles:Tests of Agency and Human Capital TheoriesUsing Individual Performance Data

Dong, Xiao-yuan; Jones, Derek C.; Kato, Takao - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

By using a large new panel of individual data, including objective measures of workerperformance, we provide some of the most rigorous evidence to date on several relateddimensions of enduring debates surrounding upward-sloping earnings-tenure profiles...

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Discrete Innovation, Continuous Improvement,and Competitive Pressure

Ghosh, Arghya; Kato, Takao; Morita, Hodaka - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

Does competitive pressure foster innovation? In addressing this important question, priorstudies ignored a distinction … between discrete innovation aiming at entirely new technologyand continuous improvement consisting of numerous incremental …

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“Fuzzy front end” practices in innovating Japanese companies

Herstatt, Cornelius; Verworn, Birgit; Stockstrom, Christoph - Institut für Technologie- und Innovationsmanagement … - 2004

In this paper, we report on the results of a large-scale study about typical front-end-related innovation practices in …

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A causal model of the impact of the “fuzzy front end” on thesuccess of new product development

Herstatt, Cornelius; Verworn, Birgit - Institut für Technologie- und Innovationsmanagement … - 2000

In a study of New Product Development (NPD) projects, the fuzzy front end ofinnovation is explored. The New Product Development process is a multistageprocess. Therefore, the study examines two sorts of impact that the fuzzy front endhas on the success of New Product Development: a direct impact...

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Reducing project related uncertainty in the“fuzzy front end” of innovation – A comparison ofGerman and Japanese product innovation projects

Herstatt, Cornelius; Verworn, Birgit; Nagahira, Akio - Institut für Technologie- und Innovationsmanagement … - 2003

-end-related activities in 28 innovation projectscarried out by 14 German and 13 Japanese companies to reduce project uncertainty. Inall cases … we observed a range of activities to reduce project specific risks and revealeddifferences in the practice of innovation …”, activities andtypical deliverables in the innovation process which might be affected by front endmanagement practice.Overall, in …

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THE “FUZZY FRONT END” OF PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT: AN EXPLORATORY STUDY

Verworn, Birgit - Institut für Technologie- und Innovationsmanagement … - 2002

The aim of this paper is to describe front-end activities in practice and get first hints for effects of the front end on project outcome and the meaning of contextual factors.The results of an exploratory study of fourteen product development projects are contrary to the wide-spread opinion...

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Approaches to the "Fuzzy Front End"of Innovation

Verworn, Birgit; Herstatt, Cornelius - Institut für Technologie- und Innovationsmanagement … - 1999

, and managers often indicate the front end as being one of the greatest weaknesses in product innovation. Therefore, it is … surprising that only little research has treated the so called "fuzzy front end" of innovation. In this paper we discuss if …

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The Impact of Teams on Output, Quality and Downtime:An Empirical Analysis Using Individual Panel Data

Jones, Derek C.; Kato, Takao - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

To investigate the size and the timing of the direct impact of participatory arrangements onbusiness performance, we assemble and analyze extraordinary daily data for rejection,production and downtime rates for all operators in a single plant during a 35 month period,more than 77,000...

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