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- 12 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 12
components and subsystems. Yet the well codified interfaces at many module boundaries also opened the system up to outside providers of components, mainly software. This served research scientists who were doing cutting-edge research...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Aug 2010
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First Look: August 17
their communication quality and ultimately to benefit their performance. Paper not available. Boundary Spanning in a For-profit Research Lab: An Exploration of the Interface Between Commerce and Academe Authors:Christopher C. Liu, Toby E....
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Martha Lagace
- 27 Sep 2011
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First Look: September 27
the boundaries of organizations. Though experience and productivity improvement may be seen as key benefits of this trend, little is known about how this shift toward outsourcing influences learning. When producing a unit of output, the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Dec 2012
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First Look: December 4
system can be broken apart into subunits (modules) that can be recombined in various ways. Modularity is important for organizations and the economy because the boundaries of organizational units and corporations are likely to match the...
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Carmen Nobel
- 12 Jan 2016
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January 12, 2016
potential adverse event once the test-statistic crosses a stopping boundary. We employ asymptotic analysis that assumes a large number of observations in a given window of time to show how to compute the stopping boundary by solving a...
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Carmen Nobel
- 02 Aug 2011
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First Look: August 2
vertically integrated); (2) purchase goods for downstream units from other firms in the sector; and (3) sell goods from upstream units to other firms in the sector. We conjecture that having two-way vertically permeable boundaries may...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 8
69, no. 4 (December 2010) Abstract How can people and organisations best respond to emergency events that are significantly beyond the boundaries of what they had generally anticipated, expected, prepared for—or even imagined? What forms...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Feb 2019
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New Research and Ideas, February 12, 2019
the current review integrates multiple streams of research relevant to brokerage and brokering—including those on structural holes, organizational innovation, boundary spanning, social and political skill, workplace gossip, third-party...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 14 Mar 2017
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First Look at New Research, March 14
range of views and ideas that teams can draw upon to innovate. Yet, case studies of practice reveal that teaming across knowledge boundaries can be difficult, and innovation is not always realized. Two streams of research are particularly...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Oct 2017
- Research & Ideas
Tax Reform is on the Front Burner Again. Here’s Why You Should Care
of the corporation's products. I think the lowering of the rate partly reflects that. And we are out of step with a lot of other rich countries. Desai: I think this interaction with the individual side is something really important. In the modern income tax, you have...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Feb 2014
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First Look: February 11
of businesses (e.g., product firms) and that every MSP entrepreneur and investor should carefully consider. In the last section I also discuss an important boundary condition: when is the MSP business model dominated by related-but...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 08 May 2007
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First Look: May 8, 2007
2007): 54-60 Abstract The article discusses what the author sees as a misperception that globalization has made national boundaries nearly obsolete. Statistics are cited that over 90 percent of phone calls, Internet traffic, and...
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Martha Lagace
- 17 Apr 2012
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First Look: April 17
develop the concept of interconnectedness as four conditions of an internal supply chain: a focus on system-rather than individual department-performance; routines within departments that are connected to current customers' needs; deliberate knowledge translation...
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Carmen Nobel
- 17 Jan 2012
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First Look: January 17
traditional, internal organization-centered models of innovation with more recent work on open innovation. These fundamentally different and inconsistent innovation logics are associated with contrasting organizational boundaries and...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 May 2007
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First Look: May 1, 2007
single identity of the organization, potentially derailing the outcomes that the organization aims to achieve. The distinct experience of lower-level members—focused identification—suggests new boundary conditions for the validity of the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Feb 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018
diversity is seen to expand the range of views and ideas that teams can draw upon to innovate. Yet, case studies reveal that teaming across knowledge boundaries can be difficult in practice, and innovation is not always realized. Two...
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