Browsing Rensselaer Libraries by Author "O'Connor, Gina Colarelli"
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Agency theory and the role of R&D governance in enabling technology strategy and corporate entrepreneurship
Shaikh, Ibrahim Anise (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 2015-08)In paper three, we are concerned with studying how managers from several industry leading technology firms actually manage the process of corporate entrepreneurship enabled by R&D (Burgelman and Grove, 2007). This study ... -
Behavioral and economic determinants of innovation strategy
Choi, Byungchul (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 2015-08)This thesis attempts to shed light on the impacts of Behavioral and economic determinants of innovation strategy of the firm. The thesis consists of two empirical research projects. -
Boards of directors, innovation, and performance : an exploration at multiple levels
Robeson, Daniel C. (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 2010-05) -
Gray matters : understanding academic researchers' decisions about commercializing their ideas and discoveries
Standish-Kuon, Theresa A. (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 2007-12)With an imbalance of attention paid to faculty researchers and their essential role in knowledge transfer, this study focuses the cognitive underpinnings of decisions that individual researchers make about positioning their ... -
Marketing for all seasons: how seasonal fluctuations impact marketing and product success
Ma, Judy (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 2015-08)In my second essay, I examine the impact of the weather, one of the most apparent situational factors, on how positively consumers evaluate products and services upon retrospection. Both anecdotal and empirical evidence ... -
Team leaders' influence on the relationship between project uncertainty and project progress
Cocco, John (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 2014-12)Survey responses from team members and team leaders of more than two hundred innovation teams within one large diversified global industrial company were collected and analyzed. The results offer little evidence of ... -
The influence of major pioneering product innovations and technological trajectories in high technology markets : lessons from the personal computer and digital music industries
Peng, Yi-Nung (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 2006-12) -
The influence of prior experience on the pursuit of new opportunities
Reynoso Vallejo, Josue Salvador (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 2018-12)This dissertation explores the influence of pre-entry technological and market experience on the identification and pursuit of opportunities in new technological and market domains. Building on qualitative interviews, as ...