Johann Peter Murmann

University of St. Gallen

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HSG Firmengeschichten 2020

Johann Peter Murmann

In diesem Buch finden Sie sechs Unternhemensgeschichte, funf aus dem Dreilandereck Schweiz, Osterreich und Deutschland, rund um den Bodensee. Master-Studentenhaben diese Geschichten im Rahmen des Kurses Strategie Evolution: Fallanalysen von Firmengeschichten im Fruhjahr 2020 geschrieben. Die Geschichten handeln von den Firmen: Saurer, Zumtobel, Jil Sander AG, Stadler Rail, Holcim und Hilti.

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Brent Goldfarb and David A. Kirsch: Bubbles and Crashes: The Boom and Bust of Technological Innovation

Administrative Science Quarterly (2020)

Johann Peter Murmann Benedikt Alexander Schuler

Bust

10.1177/0001839220918980

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Reflections on Choosing the Appropriate Level of Abstraction in Social Science Research

SSRN Electronic Journal (2014)

Johann Peter Murmann

Although researchers often do it subconsciously, every explanation involves choosing a level of abstraction at which the argument proceeds. The dominant North American style of research in Organization Theory, Strategy, and International Business encourages researchers to frame their explanations at the highest level of abstraction where country level contextual factors are suppressed. Yet to provide powerful explanations for recent developments in China, researchers are drawn to a greater level of context specificity. This tension is evident in the Child and Marinova (2014) paper. One way to reduce the tension is to identify general causal mechanisms that combine in different ways to produce different results depending on context. This research strategy is more effective than seeking invariant, general patterns of development across all time and place.

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10.2139/ssrn.2379897

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Automatic Coding of Printed Materials

SSRN Electronic Journal (2007)

Johann Peter Murmann Ernst Homburg Ruud Geven Y. Sekou Bermiss Alfonzo Forgione

The paper presents a complete method for using automatic techniques to code printed text pages. It involves three automatic steps and one or two steps of manual corrections to obtain fully accurate results. We discovered that present-day consumer digital cameras are much better than high-end scanners to obtain pictures of printed pages quickly and without the wear and tear associated with scanners. We also found that high-end ($370) OCR software is much more cost-effective to achieve accurate text recognition and to process large amounts of data. We also describe how researchers can write a computer program for classifying automatically non-uniform data. We provide detailed instructions for each step in the automatic coding method so that other researchers can readily copy it.

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10.2139/ssrn.1001568

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Regional Institutions, Ownership Transformation, and Migration of Industrial Leadership in China: The Case of the Chinese Synthetic Dye Industry, 1978-2008

SSRN Electronic Journal (2011)

Hong Jiang Johann Peter Murmann

Scholars have emphasized the gradual ownership transformation of enterprises as a key driver of the Chinese economy’s unprecedented growth. However, little work has been done on the issue of whether this transformation process takes place evenly across the various regions in China. This paper describes the important role of regional institutions in shaping the ownership-based competitiveness of local enterprises and the migration of industries across regions. In the case of the Chinese synthetic dye industry, the passing of leadership from state-owned enterprises (SOEs) to collectively owned enterprises (COEs) and then to private enterprises (PEs) was accompanied by a concurrent leadership migration from one region to another. The paper contends that this simultaneous occurrence was not accidental. Four institutional constraints - the degree of central supervision, the local labor arrangements, the local social welfare provision, and the degree of ambiguity in property rights - retarded the rise of new ownership forms in the previously dominant regions. This gave other regions the opening to take over leadership positions by providing a more favorable institutional context for new ownership forms. These findings are likely to apply to all of the Chinese manufacturing industries that existed prior to 1978 and that subsequently did not experience significant technological changes and were not highly protected by the government.

10.2139/ssrn.1759728

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Toward a Systematic Framework for Research on Dominant Designs, Technological Innovations, and Industrial Change

SSRN Electronic Journal (2005)

Johann Peter Murmann Koen Frenken

The concept of a dominant design has taken on a quasi-paradigmatic status in analyses of the link between technological and industrial dynamics. A review of the empirical literature reveals a variety of interpretations about some aspects of the phenomenon such as its underlying causal mechanisms and its level of analysis. To stimulate further progress in empirical research on dominant designs, we advocate a standardization of terminology by conceptualizing products as complex artifacts that evolve in the form of a nested hierarchy of technology cycles. Such a nested complex system perspective provides both unambiguous definitions of dominant designs (stable core components that can be stable interfaces) and inclusion of multiple levels of analysis (system, subsystems, components). We introduce the concept of an operational principle and offer a systematic definition of core and peripheral subsystems based on the concept of pleiotropy. We also discuss how the proposed terminological standardization can stimulate cumulative research on dominant designs.

10.2139/ssrn.737063

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The Use of Simulations in Developing

RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (2003)

Thomas Brenner Johann Peter Murmann

The paper develops a simulation method that can be used to develop knowledge inductively and test hypotheses about causal processes in social systems. Combining existing simulation methods in novel ways, it describes in detail the uses and requirements for carrying out history-friendly simulation experiments. The second part of the paper illustrates the value of the methodology by developing inductively information about the precise causal impact of (1) the initial number of organic chemists at the start of the industry (1857) and (2) the responsiveness of the German university system on the German global market share in the synthetic dye industry in 1913.

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Intellectual property right regimes

Edward Elgar Publishing eBooks (2006)

Johann Peter Murmann

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On the Making of Competitive Advantage: The Development of the Chemical Industries in Britain and Germany since 1850

John Wiley & Sons eBooks (1998)

Johann Peter Murmann Ralph Landau

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Forum on ‘The Rise of China's Digital Economy’

Management and Organization Review (2022)

Johann Peter Murmann

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Digital Economy

10.1017/mor.2022.35

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