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Separating wheat and chaff: age-specific staffing strategies and innovative performance at the firm level
Frosch, Katharina; Göbel, Christian; Zwick, Thomas - 2011
establishments. Finally, we do not find evidence that a youth-centred human resource strategy (always) fosters innovation. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010305881
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Empirical determinants of employee resistance against innovations
Zwick, Thomas - 2000
representative evidence on the impact of the economic environment on employee opposition against the implementation of an innovation … innovation is an increase in employee performance, the firm experiences higher resistance, while resistance is lower in firms … aiming at increasing the product range by the innovation. Profit and turn over expectations of the firm and the outside …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297711
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Empirical determinants of employee resistance against innovations
Zwick, Thomas - 2000
representative evidence on the impact of the economic environment on employee opposition against the implementation of an innovation … innovation is an increase in employee performance, the firm experiences higher resistance, while resistance is lower in firms … aiming at increasing the product range by the innovation. Profit and turn over expectations of the firm and the outside …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011444923
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Separating wheat and chaff: age-specific staffing strategies and innovative performance at the firm level
Frosch, Katharina; Goebel, Christian; Zwick, Thomas - 2011 - This version: June 2011
establishments. Finally, we do not find evidence that a youth-centred human resource strategy (always) fosters innovation …. -- Workforce aging ; staffing strategies ; innovation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009232253
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Empirical Determinants of Employee Resistance Against Innovations
Zwick, Thomas - 2013
representative evidence on the impact of the economic environment on employee opposition against the implementation of an innovation … innovation is an increase in employee performance, the firm experiences higher resistance, while resistance is lower in firms … aiming at increasing the product range by the innovation. Profit and turn over expectations of the firm and the outside …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014031306
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Persistence of innovation : stylised facts and panel data evidence
Peters, Bettina (contributor) - 2005
innovation experience, the results further highlight the important role of knowledge provided by skilled employees and unobserved …This paper investigates whether firms innovate persistently or discontinuously over time using an innovation panel data … set on German manufacturing and service firms for the period 1994-2002. We find that innovation behaviour is permanent at …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003225294
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Persistence of Innovation : Stylised Facts and Panel Data Evidence
Peters, Bettina - 2008
innovation experience, the results further highlight the important role of knowledge provided by skilled employees and unobserved …This paper investigates whether firms innovate persistently or discontinuously over time using an innovation panel data … set on German manufacturing and service firms for the period 1994-2002. We find that innovation behaviour is permanent at …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012727298
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The Impact of Training on Earnings: Differences Between Participant Groups and Training Forms
Kuckulenz, Anja; Zwick, Thomas - 2003
While there is a broad literature on the general wage effect of training, little is known about the effects of different training forms and about the effects for heterogeneous training participants. This study therefore adds two aspects to the literature on earnings effects of training. First,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297306
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Aggregate Unemployment Decreases Individual Returns to Education
Ammermüller, Andreas; Kuckulenz, Anja; Zwick, Thomas - 2006
On the basis of a theoretical model, we argue that higher aggregate unemployment affects individual returns to education. We therefore include aggregate unemployment and an interaction term between unemployment and the individual education level in a standard Mincer equation. Our results show...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297542
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Continuous Training and Firm Productivity in Germany
Zwick, Thomas - 2002
This paper presents for the first time panel evidence on the productivity effects of training intensity and different training forms in Germany. It hereby takes account of selectivity of training activities, unobserved heterogeneity of establishments as well as omitted variable bias. Using the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297923