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The aim of this paper is to analyse the effects of knowledge management on the innovation success of firms in Germany …. We look at innovative firms in the period from 2000 to 2002 taken from the Mannheim Innovation Panel and estimate the … management on the share of cost reductions with process innovation. …
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study shows that these social networks are an essential driver of knowledge integration and innovation. …
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The literature on within-firm organizational change and productivity suggests that firms can make more efficient use of certain technologies if complementary forms of organization are adopted. This issue may be of even greater importance for the case of greenhouse gas (GHG) abatement...
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By choosing their organizations, firms trade-off productive efficiency and time spent in implementing innovation. We …
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This paper examines the relationship between workplace organisation and innovation in small and medium … Assessment of Adult Competencies and the Community Innovation Survey. It contrasts SMEs adopting a “learning organisation” or … higher rates of new-to-the-market innovations among SMEs and of SME innovation collaborations with other firms and …
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This paper examines the impact of the conglomerate form on the scale and novelty of corporate Research and Development (R&D) activity. I exploit a quasi-experiment involving failed mergers to generate exogenous variation in acquisition outcomes of target firms. A difference-in-differences...
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This paper provides new evidence of the short and long-run effects of innovation on firms’ economic performance by … exploiting an innovative panel database which for the first time links three waves of the Italian Community Innovation Survey … with an administrative, economic and financial data source. Results support the hypothesis that innovation is a significant …
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We study the relationship between firm centralization and organizational reproduction in satellite locations. For decentralized firms, the ethnic compositions of inventors in satellite locations mostly resemble their host cities, with little link to the inventor composition of their parent...
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involves a unique intervening mechanism, namely, technological innovation efficiency (TI efficiency), with the potential to …
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