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Recruiting For Ideas: How Firms Exploit The Prior Inventions Of New Hires
Mar 2010
When firms recruit inventors, they acquire not only the use of their skills but also enhanced access to their stock of ideas. But do hiring firms actually increase their use of the new recruits'...
Provided by INSEAD
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Idea Generation And The Quality Of The Best Idea
Dec 2009
In a wide variety of settings, organizations generate a number of possible solutions to a problem - ideas - and then select a few for further development. The authors examine the effectiveness of...
Provided by INSEAD
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Lone Inventors As Source Of Breakthroughs: Myth Or Reality?
Jun 2009
Are lone inventors more or less likely to invent breakthroughs? Recent research has attempted to resolve this question by considering the variance of creative outcome distributions. It has...
Provided by INSEAD
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Recruiting For Ideas: A Difference-in-Differences Approach For Estimating The Effect Of Mobility On Access To An Inventor~s Prior Knowledge
Aug 2009
When firms recruit inventors, they may acquire not only the use of their skills but also enhanced access to their stock of prior ideas. In this paper, the authors examine the extent to which...
Provided by INSEAD
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Toward A Theory Of Business Model Innovation Within Incumbent Firms
Mar 2009
This paper presents a theory of business model innovation (BMI) within incumbent firms. The process of business model change is examined, with particular attention to business units in a multi...
Provided by INSEAD
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Leadership Coaching And Organizational Transformation: Effectiveness In A World Of Paradoxes
Nov 2008
The objective of this paper is to describe the unique leadership coaching approach of the INSEAD Global Leadership Centre (IGLC). (IGLC) has become a brand recognized throughout the world,...
Provided by INSEAD
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Lone Inventors As Sources Of Breakthroughs: Myth Or Reality?
Oct 2008
How does collaboration influence creativity and, in particular, the invention of breakthroughs? Recent research has attempted to resolve this question by considering the variance of creative...
Provided by INSEAD
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The REACH Directive And Its Impact On The European Chemical Industry: A Critical Review
Apr 2008
The REACH Directive, requiring the registration and testing of more than 30,000 existing chemical substances prior to selling them in the European Union, has been very controversial from its...
Provided by INSEAD
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Increasing Change Readiness In Higher Educational Institutions Through A Simulation-Based Change Management Experience
Apr 2008
Although higher educational institutions are increasingly faced with demands for deep changes and innovations, they have a very distinctive culture which makes rapid change difficult. In order to...
Provided by INSEAD
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Where Do Creative Interactions Come From? The Role Of Tie Content And Social Networks
Feb 2008
Understanding the determinants of creativity at the individual and organizational level has been the focus of a long history of research in various disciplines from the social sciences, but little...
Provided by INSEAD
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Innovation And Imitation: How Entrepreneurs Impact Economic Growth
Nov 2008
What or rather who contributed to China's economic miracle? A good deal of research on economic growth focuses on spending in research and development (R&D) with its ability to produce...
Provided by Southern Methodist University
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Service Quality, Productivity, And Innovation
Jul 2009
While the U.S. economy has been dominated by services for many decades, understanding issues of service provision has lagged traditional goods-based research (e.g. Brown and Bitner 2006). Issues...
Provided by Case Western Reserve University (Weatherhead)
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The Nature And Experience Of Entrepreneurial Passion
Jul 2009
Dating back to Schumpeter's early writings, the idea of entrepreneurial passion has been invoked to explain entrepreneurial behaviors that defy reason such as unconventional risk taking and an...
Provided by Case Western Reserve University (Weatherhead)
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Small Business Rules: The Extreme Pizza Rule
Jul 2010
"Keep your friends close, and your franchisees closer." - The Extreme Pizza Rule. Todd Parent learned the ins-and-outs of his business before he started his company, even though it meant starting...
Provided by American Express
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Entrepreneurial Expertise: What's In A Name?
Jun 2010
Choosing a name for a business could be a make or break decision. Divya Gugnani, CEO of the culinary company "Behind The Burner", provides tips on how to come up with a name that will draw...
Provided by American Express
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Elevator Pitch: Purse Flats
May 2010
Shoes that fold up and fit in a purse! For some women, it may be the perfect solution for a night out. Erika Wilson, the founder of Purse Flats, tells the elevator pitch panel why they should...
Provided by American Express
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Small Business Rules: The Good Worldwide Rule
Mar 2010
"Learn quickly." - The Good Worldwide Rule. After founder of INC Magazine Bernie Goldhirsh passed away, his son Ben Goldhirsh had the connection to do almost anything he wanted, and so he created...
Provided by American Express
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Small Business Rules : The Art Lewin Rule
Mar 2010
"Old School has become the new school" - Art Lewin Executive Clothiers Rule. Art Lewin literally had nothing when he came to the U.S. from Chile in 1977. These days he's running Art Lewin and Co....
Provided by American Express
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Ask Norm: On Determining The Viability Of A Business
Mar 2010
Columnist Norm Brodsky speaks about how to know if the business is viable. Norm explains that when there is adversity, there's opportunity and it's important to "think differently than everybody...
Provided by American Express
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The Big Buddha Baba Rule
Mar 2010
"Use the power of play to open up new ways." - The Big Buddha Baba Rule. Big Buddha Baba is an experience design company creating playful interactive experience for theme parks, museums, and...
Provided by American Express
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Webcasts
Better Your Business: Marc Lore And Lawrence Gelburd
Feb 2010
Marc Lore, co-founder, CEO and Chairman of Quidsi, the parent company of Diapers.com, and Lawrence Gelburd, an instructor at The Wharton School, provide some helpful tips on how one can better the...
Provided by American Express
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Webcasts
Better Your Business: Tim Furguson And Jerry Silberman
Jan 2010
Better Your Business: Tim Ferguson & Jerry Silberman; Tim Ferguson, founder, chairman and managing partner of Next Street, a merchant bank, and Jerry Silberman, the founder and CEO of Corporate...
Provided by American Express
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Webcasts
Openness: The Basis for a Sound Unified Communications Strategy.
Aug 2010
The vast majority of customer environments are mixed environments. In this IBM® podcast you'll hear how an open approach provides you with choice. So instead of ripping out a perfectly good...
Provided by IBM
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Webcasts
Innovating In Times Of Trouble And Plenty
May 2009
This Webcast will cover the top ten list of how the global economy shapes business decisions. In the boardroom, we grew up in a predictive strategy mode. We're now in an emerging strategy mode....
Provided by SAS Institute
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Driving Innovation Through Metrics & Measures
Sep 2007
Innovation. It's everyone's goal today. But, why do some companies achieve it, while others flounder? The answer lies in a strategic plan to drive innovation and developing effective metrics and...
Provided by SAS Institute
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Harnessing Your Company's "Rudolphs" To Drive Innovation
Dec 2009
The Age of Innovation is here. Slowly but surely it has dawned on leaders in all industries that our global economy has changed the game forever. Oh, sure, products and processes still matter, but...
Provided by American Management Association
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Did Innovation Play A Role In The Financial Crisis?
Jun 2008
It hasn't been a good year for the reputation of innovation. The word has acquired some dubious associations of late thanks to its connection to the economic crisis that has thrown global markets...
Provided by American Management Association
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Innovation On Tap
Nov 2007
The most important concept in the quest for innovation is neither complex nor hard to implement in the end. It is a concept that arises in every form of business that has a "Product." The problem...
Provided by American Management Association
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Leading Employees Toward Innovation
Apr 2008
Innovation often brings to mind visions of white-coated laboratory technicians peering into microscopes or bespectacled engineers poring over design specs. But it might be more appropriate to...
Provided by American Management Association
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White Papers
The Cost Of Not Paying Attention
Aug 2008
We live in a multitasking, ultra-connected, hyperactive world that constantly demands our attention. As we struggle to keep up, are we losing our ability to focus and engage in deep, reflective...
Provided by American Management Association
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Whitepapers
Smarter State Government Processes in 2010 - Enabling Citizen-Centric Processes, Transforming Service Delivery and Reducing Costs with IBM WebSphere® ILOG Business Rule Management System (BRMS) Technology
Aug 2010
Today states and government agencies must be able to respond and adapt quickly to relentless change to improve citizen and business services, manage resources effectively and efficiently,...
Provided by IBM
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The Future Of Advice
Apr 2008
Technology may continue to speed a worldwide information revolution, but Schrage points out that "while good advice is surely good information, good information is not necessarily good advice."...
Provided by American Management Association
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Downloads
Podcast: Smarter Collaboration Cost Reduction Strategy
Aug 2010
Are you CAPEX and OPEX challenged? Looking for ways to free up money in your IT budget immediately that can still help with long term TCO? Looking for rapid ROI? Smarter Collaboration solutions...
Provided by IBM
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How Companies Get Smarter
Jul 2007
Companies are a lot like children - none of them is born knowing all that it needs to know, and relatively few are born really smart. Most acquire intelligence by learning basic tasks and skills,...
Provided by Harvard Business School Publishing
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Innovators In Name Only
Jan 2010
Innovation has a dark side: innovators who do not increase productivity, provide revenue, or reduce overall costs. What makes these individuals people you want to avoid? The Ladder Climber, This...
Provided by American Management Association
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Break Free From The Status Quo
Jan 2008
To create space for management innovation you will need to systematically deconstruct the management orthodoxies that blind you and your colleagues to new possibilities. Pick a big management...
Provided by American Management Association
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The "New Normal" For Innovation
Jun 2010
There is no doubt that innovation in the form of new product and service introductions slowed over the last two years. New food and beverage product introductions, normally a very active area for...
Provided by American Management Association
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Peter Drucker On The Value Of Ignorance
Oct 2007
Drucker began to reminisce about his work with various corporations both here and in Japan. He told that it was often very simple things that an outsider could do which would have a major impact...
Provided by American Management Association
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The Case For Speeding Up...
Oct 2007
Our need for speed has become stronger, more pervasive, and harder to escape because today we can pursue more options - and we can pursue more options because our culture has flourished. According...
Provided by American Management Association
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The Essentials Of High Performance Organizations
Aug 2007
Business leaders crave knowledge about the key elements of organizational performance. After all, in the corporate world, these are the elements that make or break companies every day. These...
Provided by American Management Association
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Unintended Interaction: How Subjective Interpretation Generates New Business
Aug 2010
The purpose of this paper is to show the role of unintended interaction. Unintended interaction is defined as a process which amplifies the cognitions, in which a certain event is regarded as...
Provided by Meiji University
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The Contrary Forces Of Innovation A Conceptual Model For Studying Networked Innovation Processes
Aug 2010
Innovation processes represent a particular challenge to industrial network theory, given its emergence from a focus on explaining why businesses tend to be much more intertwined in stable...
Provided by Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration
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Innovation Processes In Complex Network Relations
Aug 2010
The purpose of the paper is to study the complex network relationships with elements of both cooperation and competition and the strategic tensions and rigidities in form of role conflicts that...
Provided by Umeå University
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Innovation Decision Of Tunisian Service Firms: An Empirical Analysis
May 2011
Innovation is widely recognized as a key driver of economic growth and competitiveness. But, some works focus especially on analyzing the determinants and the effects of innovation while...
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
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Service Innovation And The Proximity-Concentration Trade-Off Model Of Trade And FDI
May 2011
This paper introduces service innovation in the proximity-concentration trade-off model of trade and FDI (Helpman, Melitz and Yeaple, 2004). The idea is that innovation will have two main effects...
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
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Information Gathering, Innovation And Growth
May 2011
In this paper the authors study the economic implications of IPR protection on corporate intelligence, R&D investment and economic growth. To accomplish this objective, they introduce trade secret...
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
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Scientific And Business Resources In Interaction
Feb 2010
This paper deals specifically with how the transformation of a new scientific achievement into a business innovation can be understood from a resource interaction perspective. To achieve...
Provided by Uppsala University
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Enabling Innovations In A Commercial Virtual Organization
Aug 2010
Innovations help position a company in an uncontested market space. According to the open innovation's principles, innovations are not only gained through the research and development activities...
Provided by Tampere University of Technology
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Role Performance, Network Resources And Radical Innovation
Aug 2010
The importance of innovation to the creation and renewal of competitive advantage is well recognised and has spawned a wealth of research across diverse knowledge domains such as business and...
Provided by University of Limerick
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Applying Network Approach To Commercialization Of Innovations: Case Study On Nets To Create Markets For Innovations
Sep 2009
Commercialization and market creation of an innovation is known to be a very demanding task. However, a network may help a firm in the commercialization efforts. The paper analyses how network is...
Provided by Turku School of Economics
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Ambiguous Problem-Solving In The Product Development Process: Japanese Practices
Aug 2008
In the authors' observations, some Japanese companies tend to ask their suppliers to become involved in their procurement of materials and/or joint product development projects, with undefined...
Provided by Meiji University
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Exploring Innovation Networks: Two Simulations, Two Perspectives And The Mechanisms That Drive Innovation Performance
Aug 2008
Business networks are complex systems, made up of interdependent organisations whose managers are each trying to accomplish their own goals whilst simultaneously responding to the actions of...
Provided by University of Western Australia
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The Dual Role Of Universities In Industrial Innovation In Emerging Economies: A Comparative Study Of China And The UK
Feb 2011
This paper attempts to investigate the role of universities in industrial innovation in emerging economies using a firm-level survey database from China. It also benchmarks the Chinese pattern...
Provided by University of Oxford
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Innovation Performance And Local Embeddedness Of MNE-Subsidiaries: Evidence From Brazil
Oct 2010
This paper examines the innovation performance of MNE subsidiaries and their embeddedness in sources of local knowledge and in a policy framework within the context of an emerging economy. Based...
Provided by University of Oxford
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A Comprehensive Model Of Technological Learning: Empirical Research On Chinese Manufacturing Sector
Jan 2009
As the globalization accelerates its pace, made-in-China products have been travelling around the world for the last few decades. But in Chinese firms, their core technologies are still to a large...
Provided by University of Oxford
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When A Good Science Base Is Not Enough To Create Competitive Industries: Lock-in And Inertia In Russian Systems Of Innovation
Jan 2009
Despite having a formidable position in terms of domestic R&D activity and a well-developed science and technology infrastructure prior to transition, Russia has failed to create a competitive...
Provided by University of Oxford
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Exact Likelihood Computation For Nonlinear DSGE Models With Heteroskedastic Innovations
May 2011
Phenomena such as the Great Moderation have increased the attention of macro-economists towards models where shock processes are not (log-) normal. This paper studies a class of discrete-time...
Provided by European Central Bank
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The Strategic Role Of Suppliers In The New Service Concomitance
Sep 2008
The concomitance arises within the literature about service marketing as the simultaneous fruition of a service in the same place from a plurality of people. Such concomitance has been considered...
Provided by Universita Bocconi
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Relationship And Network Approach To Innovation And Capabilities Building In Small And Medium-Sized Uk Organic Food And Drink Suppliers: A Literature Review
Aug 2008
Both business and consumer markets of food and drink are increasingly changing, concomitant with changing consumer habits and lifestyles. Particularly in industrialised countries, there has been a...
Provided by Bournemouth University
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Customer/Supplier Interaction For Radical Technological Innovation: Inhibitor Or Facilitator?
Aug 2008
The paper is basically conceptual in nature and organises arguments on three ever more specific levels. First, some theoretical misconceptions are addressed to create an unambiguous understanding...
Provided by Hasselt University
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Constructing Customer Reference Portfolio For Launching Innovations
Jun 2008
The purpose of the paper is to increase understanding of reference usage by constructing a customer reference portfolio for launching industrial innovations. The research questions are: What is an...
Provided by Lappeenranta University of Technology
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Research, Knowledge Spillovers And Innovation
Jul 2007
In order to assess the relationship between internal and external innovative inputs and innovative output at firm level, a knowledge production function is estimated for a representative sample of...
Provided by University of London
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When Users Manage The Cooperation Between Innovative Firms : The Case Of The Software Industry
Aug 2008
The paper concerns the customer/supplier relationship during the development of radical software innovation. Taking the customers' needs into account has been identified as a key factor in the...
Provided by IMP Group
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Living Labs Fostering Innovations In The Retail Industry: A Network Perspective
Aug 2008
This paper focuses on living labs and their underlying innovation networks. A recently emerged concept of living laboratory, or 'Living lab', has quickly attracted science and practice...
Provided by Helsinki School of Economics
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Innovative Forms Of Marketing Integration In Local Networks
Aug 2008
Marketing cooperation (i.e. trade fairs organization, export consortia) has been regarded as a factor of success for local systems composed of small and medium-sized businesses. Furthermore, the...
Provided by University of Perugia
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So You Already Have A Survey Database? - A Seven-Step Methodology For Theory Building From Survey Databases: An Illustration From Incremental Innovation Generation In Buyer - Seller Relationships
Sep 2010
Across business disciplines, the importance of database research for theory testing continues to increase. The availability of data also has increased, though methods to analyze and interpret...
Provided by University of New Haven
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Liquidity, Innovation And Growth
Sep 2009
Many countries simultaneously suffer from high rates of inflation, low growth rates of per capita income and poorly developed financial sectors. In this paper, the authors integrate a...
Provided by University of Zurich
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The Macroeconomics Of Model T
Dec 2009
The authors study a model of endogenous growth where firms invest both in product and process innovations. Product innovations (that open up completely new product lines) satisfy the advanced...
Provided by University of Zurich
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Competition And Innovation: Does The Distance To The Technology Frontier Matter?
Jun 2010
This paper provides new evidence on the relationship between innovation, competition and distance to the technology frontier, using enterprise surveys from 40 developing and transition countries....
Provided by University of Zurich
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Innovation Policy In The European Union: Instruments And Objectives
Nov 2007
The paper is organized as follows. In section 1, the authors present a brief survey of the documents through which European institutions, in particular the Council and the Commission, describe the...
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
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Cultures Of Innovation Of The African Poor: Common Roots, Shared Traits, Joint Prospects? On The Articulation Of Multiple Modernities In African Societies And Black Diasporas In Latin America
Nov 2007
The globalized Western culture of innovation, as propagated by major aid institutions, does not necessarily lead to empowerment or improvement of the well-being of the stakeholders. On the...
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
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Entrepreneurship And Economic Theory
Nov 2007
Let them define entrepreneurship as creativity and the evolution of novelty. Let them suppose, the main thing of the paper that entrepreneurship is an action that does not differ from everyday...
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
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De-Industrialisation, Entrepreneurial Industries And Welfare
Mar 2009
The authors develop a two-sector general equilibrium model with monopolistic competition featuring nonhomothetic production and a variable demand elasticity for the manufactured goods. An increase...
Provided by Ruhr-Universität Bochum
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Entrepreneurship And Economics
Nov 2007
This paper has as objective to show the relationship between the Entrepreneurship and Economics and in this paper the authors have the opportunity to verify the impact of entrepreneurial activity...
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
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E-Entrepreneurship
Nov 2007
This paper has as objective to refer the theme "E-Entrepreneurship" having as reference companies of the United States that operate only on internet. The authors concluded that by fact they are on...
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
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Governance Of Innovation In The Different Countries Of The World
Nov 2007
This paper has as objective to approach the "Governance of Innovation in the different countries of the World", using information from World Economic Forum. The improve of cooperation between...
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
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Entrepreneurial Culture, Occupational Choice And Tax Policy
Jul 2010
This paper studies the influence of entrepreneurial culture among social groups in an economy. The cultural factor determines their occupational preferences. The authors develop a model in which a...
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
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Evaluating Public Policy Formation And Support Mechanisms For Technological Innovation
Nov 2007
Policy evaluation is a complex task. Most approaches now adopt a mixed method approach combining both quantitative and qualitative techniques. A shortcoming of the standard approaches is that they...
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
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Technological Progress, Industry Rivalry, And Stock Returns
Aug 2010
In this paper the authors investigate the link between competition in technological innovation and asset prices. They develop a model of an innovation race in which firms are subject to...
Provided by University of British Columbia
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The Porter Hypothesis At 20: Can Environmental Regulation Enhance Innovation And Competitiveness?
Jan 2011
Twenty years ago, Harvard Business School economist and strategy professor Michael Porter stood conventional wisdom about the impact of environmental regulation on business on its head by...
Provided by Resources for the Future
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The Big Buddha Baba Rule
Mar 2010
"Use the power of play to open up new ways." - The Big Buddha Baba Rule. Big Buddha Baba is an experience design company creating playful interactive experience for theme parks, museums, and...
Provided by American Express
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Webcasts
Better Your Business: Marc Lore And Lawrence Gelburd
Feb 2010
Marc Lore, co-founder, CEO and Chairman of Quidsi, the parent company of Diapers.com, and Lawrence Gelburd, an instructor at The Wharton School, provide some helpful tips on how one can better the...
Provided by American Express
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Webcasts
Better Your Business: Tim Furguson And Jerry Silberman
Jan 2010
Better Your Business: Tim Ferguson & Jerry Silberman; Tim Ferguson, founder, chairman and managing partner of Next Street, a merchant bank, and Jerry Silberman, the founder and CEO of Corporate...
Provided by American Express
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Webcasts
Openness: The Basis for a Sound Unified Communications Strategy.
Aug 2010
The vast majority of customer environments are mixed environments. In this IBM® podcast you'll hear how an open approach provides you with choice. So instead of ripping out a perfectly good...
Provided by IBM
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Webcasts
Innovating In Times Of Trouble And Plenty
May 2009
This Webcast will cover the top ten list of how the global economy shapes business decisions. In the boardroom, we grew up in a predictive strategy mode. We're now in an emerging strategy mode....
Provided by SAS Institute
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Webcasts
Driving Innovation Through Metrics & Measures
Sep 2007
Innovation. It's everyone's goal today. But, why do some companies achieve it, while others flounder? The answer lies in a strategic plan to drive innovation and developing effective metrics and...
Provided by SAS Institute
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White Papers
Harnessing Your Company's "Rudolphs" To Drive Innovation
Dec 2009
The Age of Innovation is here. Slowly but surely it has dawned on leaders in all industries that our global economy has changed the game forever. Oh, sure, products and processes still matter, but...
Provided by American Management Association
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White Papers
Did Innovation Play A Role In The Financial Crisis?
Jun 2008
It hasn't been a good year for the reputation of innovation. The word has acquired some dubious associations of late thanks to its connection to the economic crisis that has thrown global markets...
Provided by American Management Association
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White Papers
Innovation On Tap
Nov 2007
The most important concept in the quest for innovation is neither complex nor hard to implement in the end. It is a concept that arises in every form of business that has a "Product." The problem...
Provided by American Management Association
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White Papers
Leading Employees Toward Innovation
Apr 2008
Innovation often brings to mind visions of white-coated laboratory technicians peering into microscopes or bespectacled engineers poring over design specs. But it might be more appropriate to...
Provided by American Management Association
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White Papers
The Cost Of Not Paying Attention
Aug 2008
We live in a multitasking, ultra-connected, hyperactive world that constantly demands our attention. As we struggle to keep up, are we losing our ability to focus and engage in deep, reflective...
Provided by American Management Association
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Whitepapers
Smarter State Government Processes in 2010 - Enabling Citizen-Centric Processes, Transforming Service Delivery and Reducing Costs with IBM WebSphere® ILOG Business Rule Management System (BRMS) Technology
Aug 2010
Today states and government agencies must be able to respond and adapt quickly to relentless change to improve citizen and business services, manage resources effectively and efficiently,...
Provided by IBM
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White Papers
The Future Of Advice
Apr 2008
Technology may continue to speed a worldwide information revolution, but Schrage points out that "while good advice is surely good information, good information is not necessarily good advice."...
Provided by American Management Association
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Downloads
Podcast: Smarter Collaboration Cost Reduction Strategy
Aug 2010
Are you CAPEX and OPEX challenged? Looking for ways to free up money in your IT budget immediately that can still help with long term TCO? Looking for rapid ROI? Smarter Collaboration solutions...
Provided by IBM
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White Papers
How Companies Get Smarter
Jul 2007
Companies are a lot like children - none of them is born knowing all that it needs to know, and relatively few are born really smart. Most acquire intelligence by learning basic tasks and skills,...
Provided by Harvard Business School Publishing
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White Papers
Innovators In Name Only
Jan 2010
Innovation has a dark side: innovators who do not increase productivity, provide revenue, or reduce overall costs. What makes these individuals people you want to avoid? The Ladder Climber, This...
Provided by American Management Association
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White Papers
Break Free From The Status Quo
Jan 2008
To create space for management innovation you will need to systematically deconstruct the management orthodoxies that blind you and your colleagues to new possibilities. Pick a big management...
Provided by American Management Association
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White Papers
The "New Normal" For Innovation
Jun 2010
There is no doubt that innovation in the form of new product and service introductions slowed over the last two years. New food and beverage product introductions, normally a very active area for...
Provided by American Management Association
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White Papers
Peter Drucker On The Value Of Ignorance
Oct 2007
Drucker began to reminisce about his work with various corporations both here and in Japan. He told that it was often very simple things that an outsider could do which would have a major impact...
Provided by American Management Association
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White Papers
The Case For Speeding Up...
Oct 2007
Our need for speed has become stronger, more pervasive, and harder to escape because today we can pursue more options - and we can pursue more options because our culture has flourished. According...
Provided by American Management Association
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White Papers
The Essentials Of High Performance Organizations
Aug 2007
Business leaders crave knowledge about the key elements of organizational performance. After all, in the corporate world, these are the elements that make or break companies every day. These...
Provided by American Management Association
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It's Monday Morning...10 Tips To Get Started On Innovation
Aug 2007
Have you been tasked to innovate within your organization? Are you having trouble gaining momentum and getting results? You're not alone. One of the biggest issues organizations face with...
Provided by American Management Association
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Develop Your Creative Reputation
Jan 2010
We know that there is a risk associated with creativity and innovation. It reminds the author of this statement from some unknown guru: "Behold the turtle! He makes progress only when he sticks...
Provided by American Management Association
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Why Success May Be Holding Your Company Back
Jul 2007
Why can't companies spot great opportunities for growth? According to Erich Joachimsthaler, author of Hidden in Plain Sight (Harvard Business School Press, 2007), "The more successful a company...
Provided by American Management Association
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Thinking Out Of The Box: The Projected Mind
Jan 2010
How the projection of the mind to a uniquely productive imagination space happens is a subject of a lot of conjecture. One school of thought says much more information is stored in our unconscious...
Provided by American Management Association
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Failing Your Way To Success
Aug 2007
In a recent television interview Whoopie Goldberg described how she got her first one-woman show in New York: Whoopie was performing her nightclub act and director Mike Nichols was in the...
Provided by American Management Association
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Pay Attention!
May 2008
One reason many people have trouble remembering something is that they don't make a clear picture of what they want to remember, because they don't pay enough attention in the beginning. The...
Provided by American Management Association
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The Googlification Of Innovation
May 2008
Call it Google creep. The minimalist little search engine you loved when the Net was still young - the one with the sly sense of humor backed by a devastatingly fast and effective search engine -...
Provided by American Management Association
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The Power Of Counter-Intuitive Thinking
Aug 2007
Just as salespeople have to rethink how they approach a customer to close more business, corporate leaders need to rethink how they present their vision for the company to their constituents. "Too...
Provided by American Management Association
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The Seven Rules That Lead To Great Ideas
Aug 2007
Notables such as Aristotle ("Well begun is half done") and educator/philosopher John Dewy ("A problem well-defined is half solved") have echoed Nobel Prize - winner Herbert Simon's notion that a...
Provided by American Management Association
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Entrepreneurs Have Nothing To Fear But Fear Of Failure
Jul 2010
There is no better way to learn how to succeed in business than to learn from mistakes - yours or someone else's. One of the reasons Virgin's enterprises have been successful over the years is...
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Can Immigration Reform Help Power Entrepreneurial Innovation?
Aug 2010
In the battle to increase entrepreneurial innovation, one key weapon just might be immigration reform. Some contend that highly skilled immigrants are key drivers of entrepreneurship and...
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How To Put The Life Back Into Your Company
Jul 2010
After the past two years of the recession - watching expenses like a hawk and keeping a close eye on receivables - it wouldn't be surprising if you ended up with a bunker mentality. Maybe you...
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Are You Making Enough Profit to Grow?
Aug 2009
The authors have spoken to many small business owners recently. He wanted to know from them what their plans to grow are. This is what he realized when he talked to them. Each of the business...
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Top Ten Ways Women Entrepreneurs Boost Productivity
Jun 2009
This paper gives the top ten ways women entrepreneurs boost productivity. Write out your to do list the night before, don't wait until morning to make your list. Write your list the night before....
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Turning Limes To Limeade: Entrepreneurship Can Surface In Many Places
Apr 2009
Lots of entrepreneurs get off to a rocky or humbling beginning yet go on to become wildly successful. This paper gives a glimpse at five who, despite their early challenges, managed to make their...
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How Is This Economy Like Your Computer Or Like The Weather?
Feb 2009
Like your computer when you overload its memory or try to do too much with too little resources "It just locks up. And we all know the fix to that dilemma" you reboot and start all over again....
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Making A Positive First Impression
Nov 2008
We need to look at our business through the eyes of our customer, including entering through the same entrance, so we can be aware of any issues that might mare the first impression we make. Our...
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Is Your Business Ready For The New Normal?
Jul 2010
As entrepreneurs, we have to adapt to whatever "The new normal" is this year. Or quarter. Or week. At any time. Agility is one of the greatest advantages you have over larger competitors. You have...
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8 Great Business Ideas You Can Start Today
Jun 2010
Conventional wisdom says that starting a new business in an economic downturn is a bad idea. But we're learning that some industries are growing, despite the shaky economy. This paper provides...
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