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Taking the Charisma Out: Teaching as Facilitation

Raelin, Joseph A. - In: Organization Management Journal 3 (2006) 1, pp. 4-12

The author provides a personal account of his transition from attempting to use charisma to transmit knowledge to students to removing it so that students can themselves experience knowledge as a basis for learning. Consistent with inquiry-based democratic pedagogy, the author demonstrates how...

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The Myth of Charismatic Leaders

Raelin, Joseph A. - In: T+D - Training and development 57 (2003) 3, pp. 1-8

Why do we idolize our leaders? Maybe it is because our culture still admires individualism, or maybe because we fear what is to come. But either way, says Raelin, we must develop a shared management style in order to brave the future. Following someone strictly for inspirational vision can be a...

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Persistence of Innovation: Stylised Facts and Panel Data Evidence

Peters, Bettina - 2005

This paper investigates whether firms innovate persistently or discontinuously over time using an innovation panel data … set on German manufacturing and service firms for the period 1994?2002. We find that innovation behaviour is permanent at … innovation experience, the results further highlight the important role of knowledge provided by skilled employees and unobserved …

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Innovation, credit constraints, and trade credit: Evidence from a cross-country study

Bönte, Werner; Nielen, Sebastian - 2010

This paper studies the relationship between trade credit and innovation. While trade credit is well researched in the … finance literature, its link to innovation has been neglected in prior research. We argue that innovative small and medium … partners may have incentives to offer trade credit especially to innovative SMEs. The relationship between innovation and trade …

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The impact of venture capital on the persistence of innovation activities of Swiss start-ups

Arvanitis, Spyros; Stucki, Tobias - 2013

In this study we investigate the impact of early stage venture capital on innovation activities of Swiss start … venture capital on innovation performance 3 years after firm foundation but also 6 and 9 years after firm start, respectively …, for those firms that survived so long and reported continuously innovation activities (persistence of innovation). The …

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How Swiss small- and medium-sized firms assess the performance impact of mergers and acquisitions

Arvanitis, Spyridon; Stucki, Tobias - 2012

firm characteristics that determine the innovation and economic performance of M&A. The performance measures are based on …: innovation activities. This means that with the remarkable exception of innovation activities the level of M&A performance is …

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Do mergers and acquisitions affect the performance of acquiring firms? Evidence for Swiss small- and medium-sized firms

Arvanitis, Spyridon; Stucki, Tobias - 2012

measures of economic performance but also on innovation performance. For the empirical analysis we use a matching framework …

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Knowledge Transfer in Buyer-Supplier Relationships - When It (Not) Occurs

Bönte, Werner; Wiethaus, Lars - 2005

Abuyer?s technical knowledge may increase the efficiency of its supplier. Suppliers, however, frequently maintain relationships with additional buyers. Knowledge disclosure then bears the risk of benefiting one?s own competitor due to opportunistic knowledge transmission through the common...

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Human capital diversity and product innovation: A micro-level analysis

Söllner, René - 2010

The paper investigates the relationship between human capital diversity measured in terms of occupational diversity and a firm's likelihood to innovate. The empirical analysis is based on a linked employer-employee panel dataset of German firms over the period 1998 to 2007. Despite notable...

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The effect of adversity on process innovations and managerial incentives

Dostie, Benoît; Jayaraman, Rajshri - 2009

This paper asks whether adversity spurs the introduction of process innovations and increases the use of managerial incentives by firms. Using a large panel data set of workplaces in Canada, our identification strategy relies on exogenous variation in adversity arising from increased border...

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