Mysteries of NIH Syndrome

Many studies cite Katz and Allen (1982) as a validation of Not-Invented-Here (NIH) syndrome. However, their “validation” is misled by 1) easily adopting a smoothing method on a scatter diagram with no clear trends, and 2) arbitrarily choosing the intercept on the y-axis. The greatest mystery is that...

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Main Authors: Nobuo TAKAHASHI, Nobuyuki INAMIZU
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Global Business Research Center 2012-12-01
Series:Annals of Business Administrative Science
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Online Access:https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/abas/11/0/11_1/_pdf/-char/en