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Competition, Cooperation, and Corporate Culture

Kosfeld, Michael; Siemens, Ferdinand von - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

Teamwork and cooperation between workers can be of substantial value to a firm, yet thelevel of worker cooperation often varies between individual firms. We show that thesedifferences can be the result of labor market competition if workers have heterogeneouspreferences and preferences are...

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Technological and Organizational Changes, andLabor Flows: Evidence on French Establishments

Askenazy, Philippe; Moreno Galbis, Eva - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

This paper investigates the effects of organizational and technological changes on jobstability of different occupational categories in France. We conduct an empirical analysis inwhich we make extensive use of a unique data set on a representative sample of Frenchestablishments...

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Labour Contracts and Performance of Cameroonian Firms

Fomba Kamga, Benjamin - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011

theperiod 2003 to 2005. This study uses the stochastic production frontier, distinguishingemployees holding fixed-term contract …

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Heterogeneous Firms, Trade, and Economic Policy:Insights from a Simple Two-Sector Model

Pflüger, Michael; Russek, Stephan - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011

establishment of a canonical modeldue to Melitz (2003) has induced a recent wave of research which explores various policyissues and …

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The Interdependence of R&D Activity andDebt Financing of Young Firms

Fryges, Helmut; Kohn, Karsten; Ullrich, Katrin - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011

KfW/ZEW Start-up Panel, our estimation results show that firmcharacteristics are more important than personal …

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Zur Fortentwicklung des deutschen Bilanzrechts

In: Betriebs-Berater : BB 57 (2002) 46, pp. 2372-2381

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Innovation, Employment and Skills inAdvanced and Developing Countries:A Survey of the Literature

Vivarelli, Marco - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2012

This paper critically discusses the theoretical and empirical literature on the quantitative andqualitative employment impact of technological change, compares the relative explanatorypower of the competing theories, and explains in detail the macro and micro evidence on theissue, with reference...

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R&D Drivers in Young Innovative Companies

García-Quevedo, José; Pellegrino, Gabriele; … - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011

autoregressive nature of innovation. Using a large longitudinal datasetcomprising Spanish manufacturing firms over the period 1990 … the case of the YICs, suggesting that their innovation behaviour is less persistentand more erratic. Moreover, our results … suggest that firm and market characteristics play adistinct role in boosting the innovation activity of firms of different age …

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Discrete Innovation, Continuous Improvement,and Competitive Pressure

Ghosh, Arghya; Kato, Takao; Morita, Hodaka - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

Does competitive pressure foster innovation? In addressing this important question, priorstudies ignored a distinction … between discrete innovation aiming at entirely new technologyand continuous improvement consisting of numerous incremental …

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The Catalysing Role of In-House R&D in Fosteringthe Complementarity of Innovative Inputs

Catozzella, Alessandra; Vivarelli, Marco - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

innovative inputs on a sample of 3045 manufacturing firms drawn fromthe third Italian Community Innovation Survey (1998 …-2000). The interactions between fourdifferent sources of innovation - internal and external R&D, embodied and …

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