Essays on firms knowledge search, learning strategies and product innovation

... external knowledge across s organizational and geographic boundaries, and how learning strategies affect firms product innovations The chief contribution of this thesis is the conceptualization of ... exploitation in describing firms learning strategies? Considering the different types of product The relationship between exploration / exploitation and new product innov...

Ngày tải lên: 12/09/2015, 10:52

... Berkeley May 2000 Essays on the Equilibrium Valuation of IPOs and Bonds Copyright May 2000 by Kehong Wen Abstract Essays on the Equilibrium Valuation of IPOs and Bonds by Kehong Wen Doctor of Philosophy ... by the coe¢cients a and b: The magnitude of ´ measures the degree of erosion of old knowledge Remark This assumption and the assumpt...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 02:20

... cash financing which includes combinations of cash, debt, and liabilities The second category is stock financing, which includes payments with common stock or a combination of common stock and ... measures in different regressions E Long-term performance Majority mergers and acquisition studies find negative abnormal performance following mergers (Loderer and Martin (1992), Ande...

Ngày tải lên: 03/06/2014, 02:22

... mutual set of language learning strategies among these students and whether there appears a relationship between their language learning strategy and their English proficiency level Regarding the background ... RESULTS AND DISCUSSION 4.1 Frequency of language learning strategy use 36 4.2 The correlation between students language learning strategie...

Ngày tải lên: 19/03/2015, 10:26

... (2003), Language learning strategy use and proficiency: The relationship between patterns of reported language learning strategies (LLS) use by speakers of other languages (SOL) and proficiency ... Classification of learning strategies 10 2.2 Language Proficiency 18 2.2.1 Definition of language proficiency 18 2.2.2 The Common European Framework of...

Ngày tải lên: 04/08/2015, 09:41

... students use of vocabulary learning strategies; students degree of learner autonomy and the relationship between the students use of English vocabulary learning strategies and their level of learner ... aimed at improving the use of vocabulary learning strategies and the learner autonomy by determining the relationship b...

Ngày tải lên: 04/08/2015, 09:41

... dissertation contains three essays on optimal contests design with stochastic entry and information disclosure The first two chapters study imperfectly discriminatory contests with stochastic ... Chapter One: On Disclosure Policy in Contests with Stochastic Entry 1 Introduction Contest with A Stochastic Number of Contestants 2.1 Equilibrium 2.1.1 Co...

Ngày tải lên: 10/09/2015, 08:26

... ONE INTRODUCTION This chapter introduces the research questions investigated in the three essays of the dissertation, then summarizes the findings and contributions of each essay MOTIVATION AND ... alliances and (2) university alliances, based on the institutional regime, and then investigates their interdependency The next section elaborates on the research mode...

Ngày tải lên: 11/09/2015, 16:07

... uniform standard for Part Two: Focus on Classroom Teaching and Learning Strategies THE EDUCATION ALLIANCE at Brown University ELL, there are notable variations among states and even among districts ... effectiveness and utility of using metacognitively Part Two: Focus on Classroom Teaching and Learning Strategies THE EDUCATION ALLIANCE at Brown University 37 or...

Ngày tải lên: 24/02/2014, 18:20

... 2006 An Empirical Study of the Behavior of Active Learning for Word Sense Disambiguation, Proc of the main conference on Human Language Technology Conference of the North American Chapter of ACL, ... A combination of active learning and semi-supervised learning starting with positive and unlabeled examples Proposed Algorithm At the beginni...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 17:20

... our lessons In addition, the thesis is designed to investigate the teachers application of TBM and the 10th form students use of learning strategies in their listening lessons at TPHS in Vinh Phuc ... illustrate the grammatical system of the language and bore no relation to the language of real communication From the description of Gramm...

Ngày tải lên: 28/03/2015, 08:50

... knowledge reuse involves two types of roles knowledge producers who create and share knowledge with others, and knowledge consumers who seek and reuse the shared knowledge and the transfer of knowledge ... how to make decisions for optimizing knowledge reuse within firms The first study (Chapter 2) explores an integrative framework for understanding knowledge...

Ngày tải lên: 09/09/2015, 11:24

... limited amount of grammar and vocabulary, teachers must be aware of the contribution of other factors involved in speaking 1.3 Cultural factors in the teaching and learning of speaking skills in classrooms ... that teaching language is teaching culture Therefore, teaching culture has been integrated into language teaching programs and teaching mat...

Ngày tải lên: 07/09/2013, 13:00