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  • 27 Aug 2013
  • First Look

First Look: August 27

outcomes while controlling for the endogenous matching of projects and organizational forms. Solo firm leases are less profitable than alliance leases because alliance members combine their information and expertise. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 09 Mar 2010
  • First Look

First Look: March 9

with a low-cost and very simple operating system. The case explores all aspects of their system (mission, information management, material flows, human resource system, processes, etc.) and the challenges... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 18 Feb 2015
  • First Look

First Look: February 18

state-sanctioned intellectual property (IP) rights are ineffective or costly to enforce, modularity can be used to hide information and thus protect IP. We investigate the impact of modularity on IP protection by formally modeling the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 2016
  • Working Paper

Big History, Global Corporations, Virtual Capitalism

By: Richard L. Nolan
Homo sapiens has mastered its environment so thoroughly that, for the first time in history, a small minority of the population is capable of creating enough food and fuels to support not only itself, but also a growing majority of the 6 billion people now living on... View Details
Keywords: Economic Systems; Internet and the Web; Innovation and Invention; United States
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  • 20 Jul 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Markets or Communities? The Best Ways to Manage Outside Innovation

"secrets." Instead of invoking secrecy every step of the way, firms may want to ask, "Why are we not more open about this issue?" Finally, it's important to note that external innovation systems do not produce deterministic results: They... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Technology
  • 11 Nov 2014
  • First Look

First Look: November 11

Sustainable Evaluation System Strategy By: Eccles, Robert G., and Peijun Duan Abstract—China's sustainable development faces three challenges: first, the follow-up momentum of sustainable economic growth and economic transformation is... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Oct 2006
  • First Look

First Look: October 3, 2006

allocating resources is distributed across all levels of the company. Those activities go on simultaneously. As a consequence, the way in which the structure divides up responsibility and the way the processes of the organization distribute View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 2012
  • Chapter

IP Modularity in Software Ecosystems: How SugarCRM's IP and Business Model Shape Its Product Architecture

By: Josef Waltl, Joachim Henkel and Carliss Y. Baldwin
Keywords: Business Model; Digital Platforms; Open Source Distribution; Complexity; Applications and Software; Intellectual Property
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  • 24 May 2004
  • Research & Ideas

When Reputation Trumps Regulation

does not have the same number of sticks at its disposal as the legal system would have, it does have more carrots to use for rewarding good governance behavior. Q: You mention that "reputational bonding" could be further... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
  • 21 Nov 2005
  • Research & Ideas

The Geography of Corporate Giving

systems that include common club memberships and overlapping boards. These connections help inform companies what others in their local area are doing and directly put them in touch with local needs. Prior... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Sep 2020
  • Op-Ed

Why American Health Care Needs Its Own SEC

Employers, insurers, taxpayers, and individual consumers pay widely varying prices for treatments, medical technology, and for digital information of fluctuating quality. One patient may receive a small charge for a treatment, while... View Details
Keywords: by Regina E. Herzlinger; Health
  • 18 Mar 2014
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First Look: March 18

architectural components with 1,157 dependencies between them. We show that the architecture of this system can be classified as a "core-periphery" system, meaning it contains a single large dominant cluster of interconnected... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Jan 2013
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First Look: January 15

circumscribe citizen-employees, and they engage in production and trade. But individual corporations are no longer adequate to serve as the primary unit of analysis. Over the years, systems of distributed innovation-so-called business... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 16 May 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Confronting the Reality of Web Services

communication exchanges, are not going to happen unless managers better integrate common standards. McAfee studied IBM's B2B midrange ordering system and interviewed key players to find out what worked and what didn't. Using his case... View Details
Keywords: by Sara Grant
  • 01 Nov 1999
  • Research & Ideas

Companies, Cultures and the Transformation to the Transnational

as nemawashi or ringi, which institutionalized information sharing and joint decision making. These influences bound managers and corporations together into a very culturally dependent system, which many companies found an impediment as... View Details
Keywords: by Christopher A. Bartlett & Sumantra Ghoshal
  • 30 Mar 2010
  • First Look

First Look: March 30

are discussed. The Role of Experience in the Gambler's Fallacy Authors:Greg Barron and Stephen Leider Publication:Journal of Behavioral Decision Making 23, no. 1 (2009) Abstract Recent papers have demonstrated that the way people acquire View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 16 Mar 2003
  • Research & Ideas

At the Center of Corporate Scandal Where Do We Go From Here?

is above average. And in a lot of companies the way the system works is most CEOs want to be at the 75th percentile of the distribution of compensation. Well, you can imagine what happens. You get a ratcheting up effect as that View Details
Keywords: by Kim B. Clark
  • 12 Oct 1999
  • Research & Ideas

Confronting the Challenges that Face Bricks-and-Mortar Stores

for example. Each site requires consumers to navigate slightly differently; sites organize product categories in different ways, they provide different types of information about products, and they have different procedures for ordering... View Details
Keywords: by Raymond Burke; Retail
  • 03 Dec 2001
  • What Do You Think?

What Happens When the Sumo Master Learns Judo?

does not trust Microsoft and its use of 'customer' information to market to customers and hold them digitally captive. This demographic will continue to provide sales to (a judo master competitor)." These comments reflect general... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 15 Sep 2009
  • First Look

First Look: September 15

competence—expertise in technology—and its skilled people to accomplish what government and relief agencies could not: an information system and supply chain that tracked and managed the flow of relief... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace

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