This study gives a new identity to a knowledge search mode named search diversity and investigates how it is more rigorous in capturing knowledge heterogeneity in comparison to general assessment of search breadth. By distinguishing between diversifying and expanding search domain as building...

The histories of East and West Germany traditionally emphasize the Cold War rivalries between the communist and capitalist nations. Yet, even as the countries diverged in their political directions, they had to create new ways of working together economically. This book examines the material...

The recent revival of political interest in antitrust has resurfaced a longstanding debate about the role of industrial concentration and monopoly in enabling Hitler's rise to power and the Third Reich's wars of aggression. Proponents of stronger antitrust enforcement argue that monopolies and...

Several approaches for subset recovery and improved forecasting accuracy have been proposed and studied. One way is to apply a regularization strategy and solve the model selection task as a continuous optimization problem. One of the most popular approaches in this research field is given by...

This study addresses the determinants of time-to-licensing, defined as the elapsed time between the disclosure of an invention and the signed licensing contract, and its impact on the commercial success of the licensed inventions from public research. Using a dataset containing detailed...

Previous studies of organizations have highlighted that leadership and organizational performance have a strong and long-term impact on employee behavior in private firms. In this study, we analyze whether similar effects can also be observed in academia by examining the commercialization...

Kooperation ist ein unverzichtbarer Leistungsbestandteil. Nur durch kooperatives Verhalten gelingt die Abstimmung der Arbeitstätigkeiten, ohne Kooperation gibt es keinen Informationsaustausch, keine Unterstützung und keine Hilfe, sondern allenfalls eine Menge unfruchtbarer Konflikte....

Aufbauend auf einer Befragung von F&E-Mitarbeitern wird eine empirische Analyse des Zusammenhangs zwischen Zufriedenheitsfacetten und Arbeitsplatzmerkmalen, dem organisationalen Commitment und der Fluktuationsneigung durchgeführt. Zur Erstellung des Analyserahmens wird auf Erkenntnisse der...