Das mit dem Schlagwort Digitaler Taylorismus verknüpfte Szenario einer digital gestützten Intensivierung tayloristischer Prinzipien wird gerne am Beispiel der Verteilzentren von Amazon illustriert. Die vorliegende Fallstudie bei einem deutschen Amazon-Konkurrenten verdeutlicht jedoch, dass...

This study's main objective is assessing the effects of innovation on firms' employment growth. Further, we aimed to examine the quality of jobs in terms of skills and wages. By applying a structural modeling ap- proach, four types of innovation were considered-namely, product, process,...

Knowledge spillovers to competitors are regarded as an important aspect of the innovation process. While a company possibly benefits from incoming information on successful R&D conducted by other companies, a generally high probability of leakage of knowledge in an industry will negatively...

In the paper, the sources of productivity growth are investigated by an empirical analysis with micro data for West-German manufacturing firms. The theoretical framework corresponds to an augmented growth accounting approach based on a production function. The empirical results reveal that...