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Die Erfolgskontrolle gehört zu den wesentlichen Aufgaben des Marketing-Management. Dabei bildet die Auswahl und Formulierung der Kontrollmassstäbe ein zentrales Teilproblem. Kennzahlensysteme stellen in diesem Zusammenhang ein nützliches Kontrollinstrumentarium dar, wenn sie...
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Analysing the relationship between firms' openness to external knowledge and their innovation performance is nothing … focus of this paper. Using unique micro-level innovation data, it is shown, as the existing literature suggests, that firms …. However, innovative firms that exploit external knowledge do not necessarily enjoy greater innovation benefits than those that …
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Cooperation can benefit and hurt firms at the same time. An important question then is: when is it better to cooperate. And how can an appropriate partner be selected? In this paper we present a model of inter-firm cooperation driven by cognitive distance, appropriability conditions and external...
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firm's environmental innovation performance. However, the literature suggests that R&D collaboration is not always … beneficial. Therefore, a more elaborated analysis of the effects of R&D collaborations on a firm's environmental innovation … a firm's environmental innovation performance. In addition, this paper addresses the question of whether the diversity …
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The remarkable influx of Chinese migrant entrepreneurs in West Africa has been met with growing resistance from established African entrepreneurs. Whether the former have a competitive edge over the latter because of distinctive sociocultural traits or whether the Chinese's supposed...
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This empirical research note documents the relationship between composition of a firm's workforce (with a special focus on age and gender) and its performance with respect to innovative activities (outlays and employment in research and development (R&D)) for a large representative sample of...
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This study uses newly available representative data from German business services firms and a continuous treatment approach based on the generalized propensity score to test for a causal effect of R&D activities (measured by the share of engineers and natural scientists in all employees) on the...
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results on the relation between patenting and innovation size are then confronted with survey data for small European firms …
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?s Investment Tests (IT) during the years 1988-1998, we create a panel with information on investment, innovation activity and … self-selected on the basis of their being able to overcome the special difficulties of financing innovation. …
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