The GVC approach has stressed that inter-firm linkages within GVCs can play a crucial role in transferring technological knowledge and promoting innovation. However, the exact nature of these GVC inter-firms relationships, and their impact on the learning and innovative processes of firms involved in such GVCs in developing countries is still controversial and rather understudied. In this paper...

When individual consumers develop products for their own use, they in part expect to be rewarded by the use value of what they are creating (utilitarian user motives), and in part expect to be rewarded intrinsically by such things as the fun and learning experience derived from creating it (hedonic user motives). In this paper, we conduct first-of-type studies to understand the relationship bet...

The supply side of our model consists in an endogenous growth model with monopolistic competition and product innovation. Together with the hierarchy of wants over the innovative goods, this setting enables us to study a mechanism that so far has been largely neglected in the literature: the role that inequality plays for the prices that innovators can charge and the corresponding quantities th...

The Bass model is one of the most well-known and widely used first-purchase diffusion models in marketing research. The main reason for this is that it finds its origin in a formal theory of product diffusion, and that the model parameters have an easy interpretation in terms of innovation and imitation. Namely, Bass classified adopters (first-time buyers) into two groups: innovators and imitat...

User based collaborative filtering (UserCF) is a method that generates recommendations based on the preferences and past actions of like-minded users. Currently, most UserCF based recommendation systems do not consider the users’ purchase precedence and activeness when locating those like-minded users. Yet, these two factors contain valuable information that can contribute to recommendation acc...

In exploring why innovators often do not profit from their innovations, researchers concentrate on innovators versus imitators and the extent to which owners of complementary assets capture profits from innovations. The literature provides scant attention to factors that sap profits from innovations. This paper argues that an innovator’s positioning vis-à-vis customers, suppliers, complementors...

Customers as service innovators within business networks"

This study aims to identify service innovation patterns in the service industry and understand the main differences among them. By analyzing service innovation patterns based on four major service innovation dimensions (i.e., service concept, service delivery, client interface, and technology), we attempt to create a new typology of service innovation. Based on data collected from 209 Korean fi...

Electronic voting, or e-voting, is a relatively closed process that contains inherent risks associated with the potential for voting irregularities, translation errors, and inappropriate manipulation (Oravec, 2005). To develop a greater understanding of trust issues surrounding the use of e-voting, an investigation into the public trust and the relationship between trust and electronic voting t...