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Coopetition and innovation. Lessons from worker cooperatives in the Spanish machine tool industry
This is an electronic version of the accepted paper in Journal of Business & Industrial
Marketing[EN] Purpose â
This paper aims to investigate how the implementation of the inter-cooperation principle
among Spanish machine-tool cooperatives helps them to coopeteâcollaborate with
competitors, in their innovation and internationalization processes and achieve collaborative
advantages.
Design/methodology/approach â The paper uses a multi-case approach based on interviews
with 15 CEOs and research and development (R&D) managers, representing 14 Spanish
machine tool firms and institutions. Eight of these organizations are worker-cooperatives..
Findings â Worker -cooperatives achieve advantages on innovation and internationalization
via inter-cooperation (shared R&D units, joint sales offices, joint after-sale services,
knowledge exchange and relocation of key R&D technicians and managers). Several mutual
bonds and ties among cooperatives help to overcome the risk of opportunistic behaviour and
knowledge leakage associated to coopetition. The obtained results give some clues explaining
to what extent and under which conditions coopetitive strategies of cooperatives are
transferable to other types of ownership arrangements across sectors.
Practical implications â Firms seeking cooperation with competitors in their R&D and
internationalization processes can learn from the coopetitive arrangements analyzed in the
paper.
Social implications â Findings can be valuable for sectoral associations and public bodies
trying to promote coopetition and alliances between competitors as a means to benefit from
collaborative advantages.
Originality/value â Focusing on an âideal typeâ of co-operation -cooperative organisationsand
having access to primary sources, the paper shows to what extent (and how) strong
coopetitive structures and processes foster innovation and internationalization
Improving the Measurement of the Top Quark Mass
Two possible ways to improve the mass resolution for observing hadronic top
quark decay are studied: (1) using fixed cones in the
rest frames of the and to define the decay jets, instead of the
traditional cones in the rest frame of the detector; and (2) using the jet
angles in the top rest frame to measure . By Monte Carlo simulation,
the second method is found to give a useful improvement in the mass resolution.
It can be combined with the usual invariant mass method to get an even better
mass measurement. The improved resolution can be used to make a more accurate
determination of the top quark mass, and to improve the discrimination between
events and background for studies of the production mechanism.Comment: Revised and expanded. New and better method introduced. Some
conclusions changed. 17 pages, RevTeX, 4 uuencoded figure
ON THE NUMBER OF NUMBERS WITH A GIVEN DIGIT SUM
We consider the sum of digits function which maps an integer to the sum of itâs
digits, for example 142 is mapped to 1 + 4 + 2 = 7. This papers examines the
question of how many other integers are mapped to a given digit in the range 1
to 10z
Workers researching the workplace using a work based learning framework: Developing a research agenda for the development of improved supervisory practice
This is a preprint of an article which later appeared in Impact: Journal of Applied Research in Workplace E-learning.The article is case study of academic practice in respect of the supervision of research in the workplace by distance learners using a Work Based Learning (WBL) framework. Key aspects of the WBL are described including the role of technology in delivery. Drawing upon tutor experience at one institution and knowledge of practice elsewhere several conceptual and practical issues are raised as the basis for a planned research exercise to identify commonalities and differences in approach among practitioners. Ultimately, the purpose is to improve the relevance and application of workplace research by practitioners
Michael Porter's Cluster Theory as a local and regional development tool â the rise and fall of cluster policy in the UK
There has been much written on industrial agglomeration, but it is Michael Porterâs cluster theory, above all others, which has come to dominate local and regional economic development policy. His work has been adopted by the OECD, EU, national and local governments the world over. He and his consultancy group have led reviews of national economic growth strategies in dozens of countries. This rise to prominence, however, is in the face of widespread critique from academics. Cluster theoryâs theoretical foundations, its methodological approach and practical implementation have all been unpicked, leading some to label little more than a successful brand riding the wave of new regionalist fashions. Despite libraries of incredibly useful books and articles on clusters, there remains an absence of work which interrogates the translation of clusters into, and then through local and national policy. The aim of this article is to go some way to remedying the situation by examining the influence of Porterâs cluster theory charted through an examin- ation of UK regional development policy in the 1990s and 2000s. To help map the journey of clusters into and through UK economic development policy actor-network theory is adopted as an explanatory framework
Parton Distributions
I present an overview of some current topics in the measurement of Parton
Distribution Functions.Comment: 13 pages, 9 figures. Plenary talk presented at the XIII International
Workshop on Deep Inelastic Scattering (DIS 2005), Madison WI USA, April
27--May 1, 200
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