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HR's new ROI: Return on intangibles
(Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company, 2005)
A new human resource ROI has been identified: return on intangibles . Intangibles represent the hidden value of a firm and are becoming an increasingly important portion of a firm's total market capitalization. Six actions ...
Mapping technological capabilities into product markets and competitive advantage: the case of cholesterol drugs
(John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2002-02)
While a lot of attention has been paid to those characteristics of capabilities that give firms a competitive advantage, a lot less attention has been given to supporting empirical evidence and to the deployment of these ...
Building firm capabilities through learning: the role of the alliance learning process in alliance capability and firm-level alliance success
(John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2007-10)
In recent years, academics and managers have been very interested in understanding how firms develop alliance capability and have greater alliance success. In this paper, we show that an alliance learning process that ...
Time out for family: Shift work, fathers, and sports
(Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company, 2008)
Shift work is a fact of life for many workers. Almost one in six full-time hourly and salary employees works a shift outside the 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. window that researchers use to define the temporal bounds of the traditional ...
Performance effects of imitative entry
(John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2008-08)
This article examines how waiting to imitate a product affects the performance of the imitator compared to the innovator. Specifically, we address two research questions. Under what conditions does imitation erode the ...
Trade-Off Analysis of Real-Time Control Performance and Schedulability*
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science+Business Media, 2001-11)
Most real-time computer-controlled systems are developed in two separate stages: controller design followed by its digital implementation. Computational tasks that implement the control algorithms are usually scheduled by ...
What do they know? The effects of outside director acquisition experience on firm acquisition performance
(John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2008-11)
This article contributes to the literature on board effectiveness by being perhaps the first to systematically examine how the nature of outside directors' prior experience, and resulting expertise, will influence the ...
Where do resources come from? The role of idiosyncratic situations
(John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2004-08)
In this paper, we examine the emergence of resources. Our analysis of technological capability acquisition by global U.S.-based chemical firms shows that the emergence of resources is inherently evolutionary. We find that ...
The scope and governance of international R&D alliances
(John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2004-08)
Participants in research and development alliances face a difficult challenge: how to maintain sufficiently open knowledge exchange to achieve alliance objectives while controlling knowledge flows to avoid unintended leakage ...
Protocols for automated negotiations with buyer anonymity and seller reputations
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science+Business Media, 2000-03)
In many Internet commerce applications buyers can easily achieve anonymity, limiting what a seller can learn about any buyer individually. However, because sellers need to keep a fixed web address, buyers can probe them ...