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Business Cycle Synchronization Of The Euro Area With The New And Negotiating Member Countries
October 23, 2007, 12:00am PDT
The authors examine business cycle synchronizations between the euro area and the recently acceded EU and currently negotiating countries. Strong evidence is uncovered of time-variation in the...
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Optimal Taxation And Growth With Public Goods And Costly Enforcement
October 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
This paper studies optimal direct and indirect taxation rules in an endogenous growth framework where public goods, in the form of infrastructure and health services, affect both production and...
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The Allocation Of Public Expenditure And Economic Growth
February 10, 2010, 12:00am PST
This paper studies the optimal allocation of government spending between health, education, and infrastructure in an endogenous growth framework. In the model, infrastructure affects not only the...
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A Theory Of Infrastructure-led Development
February 5, 2010, 12:00am PST
This paper proposes a theory of long-run development based on public infrastructure as the main engine of growth. The government, in addition to investing in infrastructure, spends on health...
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Red Tape, Corruption And Finance
November 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
The authors study the effects of red tape and corruption in a model of occupational choice, entry regulation and imperfect capital markets. Red tape is the set of rules and regulations that...
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Lost in Translation: Data Integration Tools Meet the Semantic Web
March 27, 2011, 12:00am PDT
More information is now being published in machine processable form on the web and, as de-facto distributed knowledge bases are materializing, partly encouraged by the vision of the Semantic Web,...
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Code Quality Evaluation Methodology Using the ISO/IEC 9126 Standard
July 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
This work proposes a methodology for source code quality and static behavior evaluation of a software system, based on the standard ISO/IEC-9126. It uses elements automatically derived from source...
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An Evaluation Of Government Efforts To Improve Regulatory Decision Making
August 25, 2010, 12:00am PDT
In response to the increasing impact of laws and regulations, several governments have introduced economic analysis as a way of improving regulatory decision making. This paper provides the first...
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Automatic PCA Dimension Selection for High Dimensional Data and Small Sample Sizes
December 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
Bayesian inference from high-dimensional data involves the integration over a large number of model parameters. Accurate evaluation of such high-dimensional integrals raises a unique set of...
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Contextual Factors Of Network Picture Formation: An Empirical Examination
September 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The business network is a varying entity, depending on the perceptions of the actors within the network. Moreover, it has been posited that perceptions are important for actors' networking...
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A Dimensional Model Of Contract Characteristics In Business Relationships
September 5, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Contracts are manifestations of enforceable agreements within business relationships. In this way, contract research offers an objectified lens through which the relationship between buying and...
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Developing A Taxonomy For Strategising In Industrial Networks: Manual And Computer-Assisted Approaches
September 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The purposes of the project described here were to develop a taxonomy of terms relating to strategy used in industrial networks research studies, and to compare manual qualitative content analysis...
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The Impact Of The Country-Of-Origin Effect On Trust In Business Relationships
August 28, 2010, 12:00am PDT
It is the purpose of this paper to analyse how trust is formed within business relationships in cases in which the buyer's firm stems from a developed economy that has a positive Country-Of-Origin...
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The Role Of Inter-Firm Market Orientation On The Market Orientation - Performance Relationship
August 27, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Many researchers have studied market orientation over the last two decades and have argued its impact on firm performance. Much of the work has focused on the intra-firm market orientation of...
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Actor Network Pictures And Networking Activities In Business Networks: An Exploratory Empirical Study
September 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
In recent years, there has been increasing interest among business-to-business marketing scholars in the processes of managerial cognition. In particular, actors' network pictures, defined as the...
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Resource Acquisition Strategies In Business Relationships
June 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Understanding business relationships represents the core aspect of research in the IMP Group tradition. Although different models and frameworks have contributed significantly to explaining...
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Understanding Network Picture Complexity: An Empirical Analysis Of Contextual Factors
August 27, 2010, 12:00am PDT
There has recently been increasing interest in the relationship between managers' perceptions of their surroundings and their interactions with other actors. This sense-making issue is linked to...
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The Fit Of Business Relationships With Business Strategies
August 28, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The concept of strategic fit has been a focus of the contemporary literature on organisational behaviour and strategy. This concept follows the logic of contingency theory and suggests that where...
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Network Pictures As A Research Device: Developing A Tool To Capture Actors? Perceptions In Organizational Networks
September 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
In business networks, strategic actions are believed to be guided by actors' subjective views or perceptions of their surroundings. Researchers thus consider these perceptions as important for...
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Is There Such A Thing As A 'Dyadic Operationalization'? Some Considerations Regarding Quantitative Research And The Interaction Model Of Business Relationships
September 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
This paper addresses the challenge of bridging two seemingly incommensurable research traditions, i.e. the IMP Group tradition related to qualitative and descriptive interaction approaches on the...
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Analysing The Relevance And Utility Of Leading Accounting Research
July 4, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The sub-prime banking crisis and credit crunch raised questions over whether the scope of accounting research has been too narrow to serve the longer-term needs of business and society. This paper...
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User Feedback as a First Class Citizen in Information Integration Systems
January 12, 2011, 12:00am PST
User feedback is gaining momentum as a means of addressing the difficulties underlying information integration tasks. It can be used to assist users in building information integration systems and...
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Growth-Optimal Investments And Numeraire Portfolios Under Transaction Costs: An Analysis Based On The Von Neumann-gale Model
September 25, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The aim of this work is to extend the capital growth theory developed by Kelly, Breiman, Cover and others to asset market models with transaction costs. The authors define a natural generalization...
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Is Volatility Good For Growth?
January 15, 2009, 12:00am PST
The authors provide empirical support for a DSGE model with nominal wage stickiness where growth is driven by learning-by-doing and money shocks and their variance are allowed to impact on...
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State, Business And Growth In Post-Apartheid South Africa
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
This paper explores the relationship between 'State-business relations' (SBRs) and pro-poor growth in South Africa. It provides a history of business organization and the role of the large...
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Towards Open Tracing of P2P File Sharing Systems
June 28, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Since the release of Napster in 1999, peer-to-peer file-sharing has enjoyed a dramatic rise in popularity. A 2000 study by Plonka on the University of Wisconsin campus network found that...
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Estimating The National Impact Of The Financial Crisis In Indonesia By Combining A Rapid Qualitative Study With Nationally Representative Surveys
January 18, 2010, 12:00am PST
This paper draws on a rapid qualitative assessment of the impact of the financial crisis in Indonesia, to generate hypotheses about the potential national impacts. The authors test these...
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Financial Crisis In Asia And The Pacific Region-Its Genesis, Severity And Impact On Poverty And Hunger
January 7, 2010, 12:00am PST
Building on a vast recent literature on finance, growth and hunger, the authors have examined the experience of 9 Asian countries over the period 1960-2006, using a state-of art-econometric...
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Measuring Economic Resilience And Vulnerability: Towards An International Index
January 12, 2010, 12:00am PST
The world is now experiencing its worst synchronised economic downturn since the Great Depression of the 1930s. With its epicentre in the US subprime mortgage market, shockwaves spread rapidly...
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Social Capital, Financial Crises And Health
September 28, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Alleviating poverty is among the most laudable aim of the Millennium Development Goals. However, policies aimed at alleviating poverty could only be successful if the people are underpinned by...
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The Real Origin Of Global Financial Imbalances
January 10, 2010, 12:00am PST
There is an evident global imbalance puzzle: capital-scarce developing countries like China are accumulating huge foreign exchange reserves while the capital-abundant developed countries, such as...
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The Welfare Gains Of Financial Liberalization: Capital Accumulation And Idiosyncratic Risks
October 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
From a simple (theoretical) growth argument, financial integration enables capital scarce countries to raise capital inflows with positive effects on investment and on the speed of convergence....
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Approximate Algorithms for Maximizing the Capacity of the Reverse Link in Multiple - Class CDMA Systems
August 27, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) has proved to be an efficient and stable means of communication between a group of users which share the same physical medium. Therefore, with the rising...
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Video-On-Demand Network Design and Maintenance Using Fuzzy Optimization
October 8, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Video-on-Demand (VoD) is the entertainment source which, in the future, will likely overtake regular television. Even though many companies have deployed working VoD services, to reach to the...
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Fuzzy Design of a Video-On-Demand Network
October 18, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Designing a Video -on-Demand (VoD) system is in essence an optimization task aimed at minimizing the cost of communication and storage in the corresponding network. The decision variables of this...
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Cooperative Spectrum Sensing With Noncoherent Transmission
May 24, 2012, 12:00am PDT
The problem of decision fusion for cooperative spectrum sensing in cognitive radio networks is studied when noisy fading channels are present between the Cognitive Radios (CRs) and the Fusion...
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MDP-Based Admission Control for Multicast Streaming Services in Wireless Mobile Networks
May 24, 2012, 12:00am PDT
The authors investigate the optimal admission control policy for Multicast Streaming Services (MSS) in the 3rd Generation (3G) and beyond wireless mobile networks. An admission decision in MSS is...
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Performance Analysis of Cognitive Radio Networks With Channel Assembling and Imperfect Sensing
May 24, 2012, 12:00am PDT
This paper investigates the performance of a wideband cognitive radio network where each cognitive user can assemble multiple primary channels. Two channel assembling schemes are considered: a...
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An Improved Channel Model for Cognitive Radio
May 24, 2012, 12:00am PDT
To analyze scenarios like spectrum handoff in overlay cognitive radio networks, the authors need to capture the status change of the target channels in a more realistic manner. Most of the...
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Game Theoretic Modeling of Cooperation Among Service Providers in Mobile Cloud Computing Environments
March 12, 2012, 12:00am PDT
Mobile cloud computing aims at improving the performance of mobile applications and to enhance the resource utilization of service providers. In this paper, the authors consider a mobile cloud...
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Business Start-Up And Growth Motives Of Entrepreneurs: A Case In Bradford, United Kingdom
April 26, 2010, 12:00am PDT
This study attempts to investigate start-up and growth motives of entrepreneurs who own small and medium scale enterprises in Bradford, UK. In-depth interviews are conducted using "Storytelling"...
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Pluriactivity, Entrepreneurship And Socio-Economic Success Of Rural Households
March 25, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Multiple data collection methods were used and the data were analyzed qualitatively. The findings were supplemented with quantifiable evidence when necessary in order to increase the validity of...
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Distributed Innovation Processes (Dips) And The Dynamics Of Knowledge Tradability
March 25, 2010, 12:00am PDT
This paper draws on two extensive case studies to explore how the co-production and exchange of knowledge is organized during innovative activity. In the empirical cases multiple, transient...
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Rethinking Strategy And Implementation Of Knowledge Management From Innovation Perspective: A Lesson Learned From A Multinational Subsidiary In Indonesia
March 25, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Facing unprecedented challenges and opportunities ahead in the knowledge economy, managing knowledge has been a priority for many organizations. Knowledge Management (KM) emerges and has quickly...
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The Governance Of Knowledge In Academic Spin-offs
March 16, 2010, 12:00am PDT
This paper is to study the evolution of organizational knowledge within Academic Spin-Off (ASO) firms throughout their life cycle. The exploitation of tacit and indivisible new knowledge developed...
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Hedging The Black Swan: Conditional Heteroskedasticity And Tail Dependence In S&P500 And VIX
July 30, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The recent financial crisis has accentuated the fact that extreme outcomes have been overlooked and not dealt with adequately. While extreme value theories have existed for a long time, the...
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Conceptual Foundations Of Innovation Systems
May 19, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Production and "Transfer" of knowledge, and the role of institutions, are two major conceptual tenets of Innovation Systems (IS) literature, which flourished in the evolutionary stream of...
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Institutional Entrepreneurship In Constructing Alternative Paths: A Comparison Of Biotech Hybrids
October 22, 2009, 12:00am PDT
This paper investigates how firms adapt their innovation strategies to cope with constraints in national institutional environments. It is a comparative case study of Dutch and British dedicated...
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What Drives Stochastic Risk Aversion
September 18, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The author examines determinants of stochastic relative risk aversion in conditional asset pricing models. First, the surplus consumption ratio implied by the external habit formation model is the...
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An Empirical Analysis Of Zero-Leverage And Ultra-Low Leverage Firms: Some U.K. Evidence
October 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
This paper studies conservative debt policies, focusing on firms with no debt (zero leverage) or with extremely low debt. Firms maintaining zero leverage or ultra-low leverage are generally...
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Portfolio And Consumption Decisions Under Ambiguity For Regime Switching Mean Returns
October 13, 2009, 12:00am PDT
This paper examines a continuous-time inter-temporal consumption and portfolio choice problem for an ambiguity-averse investor with multiple priors when the expected return of a risky asset is...
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A Simple Model Of Trading And Pricing Risky Assets Under Ambiguity: Any Lessons For Policy-Makers?
October 13, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Moreover, recent experience has shown that distress and lack of active trading can jump "Around" between seemingly unconnected parts of the financial system contributing to transforming isolated...
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Innovation Patterns Under The Magnifying Glass. Firm-Level Latent Class Analysis Of Innovation Activities In Services
September 15, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Innovation is still an obscure concept although many efforts have been made to improve the understanding and measurement of it. The growth of service activities throughout the economy has...
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Mapping The Tacit Component: Getting Away From Knowledge Conversion
July 29, 2009, 12:00am PDT
This paper argues for a radical new understanding of the topic generally referred to as Tacit Knowledge. On the basis of a new appraisal of the work of Michael Polanyi, the authors argue that...
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Opening The Black Box: Adoption Of Innovations In Voluntary Organizations
July 16, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Despite the considerable attention paid to research into the adoption of technological innovations in government agencies and business firms, little attention has been paid to other types of...
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Changing Competition Models In Market Economies: The Effects Of Internationalization, Technological Innovations And Academic Expansion On The Conditions Supporting Dominant Economic Logics
June 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Different ways of competing in markets came to dominate particular sectors, regions and national market economies in the postwar period as a result of variations in market conditions,...
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Scope, Strategy And Structure: The Dynamics Of Knowledge Networks In Medicine
January 16, 2009, 12:00am PST
This paper is to analyze the dynamics of networks in which new knowledge emerges and through which it is exchanged. The conjecture is that the structure of a network cannot be divorced from the...
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Self-Renewal Capacity And Economic Growth
September 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
This paper adopts the point of view that a crisis will face a person, organization, region or country at some point in their life span or history. The question is how to prepare for the crises and...
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Tranching And Rating
November 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
In this paper the authors analyze the source and magnitude of marketing gains from selling structured debt securities at yields that reflect only their credit ratings, or specifically at yields on...
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Power And Leadership In Promotion Of Regional Development: An Empirical Analysis Of The Work Of Finnish Regional Development Officers
October 20, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Increased complexity and rapid pace of change demand more from people responsible for regional development at various levels of activity. This paper has its roots in a belief that the more complex...
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The Impact Of Universities On Regional Innovation: A Critique And Policy Implications
September 10, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The impact of universities on the economic wellbeing and innovative potential of regions has been the object of intense scholarly and policy interest in the last years. This paper proposes a...
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Swap Market Model: Theory And Empirical Evidence
September 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
This paper tests the co-terminal Swap Market Model (SMM) pricing and hedging performance on Bermudan swaptions. To the knowledge, the drift for SMM is derived explicitly for the first time here,...
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Short Rate Models: Hull-White Or Black-Karasinski? Implementation Note And Model Comparison For ALM
September 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
In this paper, the authors compare two one-factor short rate models: the Hull White model and the Black-Karasinski model. Despite their inherent shortcomings the short rate models are being used...
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Choice Of Interest Rate Term Structure Models For Assets And Liability Management
September 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
This paper compares the pricing and hedging performance of the LMM model against two spot-rate models, namely Hull-White and Black-Karasinski, and the more recent Swap Market Model from an...
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Clustering In The UK Financial Services: The Quest For The Enigmatic Pecuniary Externality
September 29, 2008, 12:00am PDT
This paper explores the sources of agglomeration externalities in enhancing firm performance, in particular, the pecuniary externality that supports firms' bottom line. The fundamental argument on...
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On The Information Content Of The Fama And French Factors In The UK
September 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
This study explores the information content of HML and SMB by linking the Fama-French factors to shocks in the state variables which predict future investment opportunities. It shows that the HML...
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Opening The Black Box Of Stakeholder Consultation: The Development Of A Planning Management Tool For The Environment Agency
June 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Stakeholder participation in decision making processes promises fairness, effectiveness and efficiency and has become the orthodoxy in a wide variety of policy areas, especially in environmental...
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Constructing Universities As Strategic Actors: Limitations And Variations
June 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Recent changes in the funding and governance of research universities have attempted to make them more strategically active in contributing to national goals. However, the ability of universities...
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Changing Authority Relations In Public Science Systems And Their Consequences For The Direction And Organisation Of Research
June 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The governance and organization of scientific research undertaken for publication have altered significantly since the end of the Second World War in many industrialized economies. These changes...
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The Institutional Construction Of Firms
June 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The nature and economic role of legally constituted firms varies between market economies and changes over time. In particular, the governance of leading firms and how they develop distinctive...
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Strategic Adjustment Between Innovation And Production: Generation Of Integrated Archetypes In Spanish Service Firms
May 6, 2008, 12:00am PDT
This paper investigates empirically the strategic alignment between innovation and production strategies in a sample of service firms in Spain. It employs the integrated archetypes approach to...
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Managing Competitive Advantage: Clustering In The Singapore Financial Centre
May 19, 2008, 12:00am PDT
This paper uncovers the role of financial clustering in creating competitive advantage for incumbents in the Singapore Financial Centre. The revelatory case of the under researched Singapore...
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Building Effective "Innovation Systems" Versus Dealing With "Market Failures" As Ways Of Thinking About Technology Policy
October 20, 2007, 12:00am PDT
In this paper the author compares two different theoretical frameworks in economics for orienting analysis of issues in technology policy. One is a neoclassical framework that sees appropriate...
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Licensing Technology And Foreclosure In Contests
January 31, 2008, 12:00am PST
The authors consider an industry where one firm with a superior technology competes for market shares with several rivals. The owner of the superior technology can license or transfer the source...
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Spreading The Word, Broadening Perspectives: Internet, NGOs And Globalization Discourse In Indonesia
April 28, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Globalization is ambivalent. On the one hand, it brings prosperity, comfort and convenience in the form of economic growth, technological advancement, more open and democratic governance, and so...
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ICT Capital And Services Complementarities. The Italian Evidence
April 22, 2008, 12:00am PDT
This paper investigates whether ICTs hardware and services play a complementary role in boosting economic growth. The main argument is that investments in ICTs fixed capital are a necessary but...
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Localized Appropriability: Pecuniary Externalities In Knowledge Exploitation
April 14, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Pecuniary externalities are crucial in shaping the strategies to value the distinctive competences and the economic success of innovative firms. The analysis of conditions for localized knowledge...
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On Marshallian Evolutionary Dynamics, Entry And Exit
March 3, 2008, 12:00am PST
New businesses add to capacity and, frequently but not always, they are the vehicles for innovation and the introduction of business experiments new to a trade. Entry and exit differ quite...
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From Fiction To Fact: The Impact Of CEO Social Networks
January 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
This paper investigates the relationship between a CEO's social network, firm identity, and firm performance. There are two competing theories that predict contradictory outcomes. Following social...
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Rural Sector Reform And Internet Adoption In NGOs: The Case Of Indonesia
February 13, 2008, 12:00am PST
Today rural sector reform is a paramount issue in Indonesian development. Yet, different social actors have different perspectives and stances towards it. Non-Government Organizations (NGOs) in...
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