Sloan School of Management: Recent submissions

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    • Measuring user innovation in Dutch high tech SMEs: Frequency, nature and transfer to producers 

      de Jong, Jeroen P.J.; von Hippel, Eric A. (Cambridge, MA; Alfred P. Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2009-02-27)
      A detailed survey of 498 “high tech” SMEs in the Netherlands shows process innovation by user firms to be common practice. Fifty four percent of these relatively small firms reported developing entirely novel process ...

    • Class Pricing 

      Wernerfelt, Birger (Cambridge, MA; Alfred P. Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008-01-15)
      A contract with K-class pricing divides a large set of goods or services into K classes and assigns a single price to any element of a class. Class pricing can be efficient when several different versions may be traded and ...

    • Sunk Costs and Risk-Based Barriers to Entry 

      Pindyck, Robert S. (Cambridge, MA; Alfred P. Sloan School of Mangement, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2009-02-13)
      In merger analysis and other antitrust settings, risk is often cited as a potential barrier to entry. But there is little consensus as to the kinds of risk that matter— systematic versus non-systematic and industry-wide ...