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Technological change: An analysis of the diffusion and implications of e-business technologies

Koellinger, Philipp - EconWPA - 2005

2002. In addition, the adoption of new e-business technologies by firms creates opportunities to conduct innovation, either …

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ICT, Innovation and Business Performance in Services: Evidence for Germany and the Netherlands

van der Wiel, Henry; van Leeuwen, George; Hempell, Thomas - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2004

deepening and innovation for productivity. We employ a model that takes into account that innovation and ICT use may be … technological innovations on a more permanent basis. Moreover, the joint impact of ICT use and permanent technological innovation on … productivity appears to be of the same order of magnitude in the two countries. However, the direct impacts of innovation on multi …

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Does Experience Matter? Innovations and the Productivity of ICT in German Services

Hempell, Thomas - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2002

In this paper, it is argued that ICT investment is closely linked with complementary innovations and most productive in firms with innovative experience. In an analysis based on firm?level panel data covering the period 1994?99, system GMM estimates for an extended production function framework...

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Do Ukrainian Firms Benefit from FDI?

Talavera, Oleksandr; Lutz, Stefan H. - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2003

All countries are eager to attract as much foreign investments as possible. At the same time FDI may have not only positive, but also negative economic effects for receiving countries. Positive effects are associated with technology transfer, efficient allocation of resources, and training of...

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Corporate Governance and Management Succession in Family Businesses

Phan, Phillip; Butler, John E.; Lee, Soo Hoon - EconWPA - 2005

Family businesses carry the weight of economic wealth creation in most economies. In the U.S. alone, family businesses account for 80 to 90 percent of the 18-million business enterprises in the United States, and 50 percent of the employment and GNP. In many ways, the family business is...

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Use of ICTs and the Economic Performance of SMEs in East Africa

Chowdhury, Shyamal; Wolf, Susanna - EconWPA - 2004

This paper assesses the use of information and communication technologies (ICTs) and their impact on the economic performance of small- and medium-scale enterprises (SMEs) of three East African countries: Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda. Findings of the paper suggest that the diffusion of ICT among...

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Does Governance Matter?Some Evidence from Indian States

Basu, Sudip Ranjan - EconWPA - 2005

This paper attempts to propose a methodology to combine different dimensions of governance indicators into a composite index. The governance index is computed as the weighted average of principal components of the standardized governance indicators, where weights are variances of successive...

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Financial Constraints: Routine Versus Cutting Edge R&D Investment

Binz, Hanna L.; Czarnitzki, Dirk - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2008

We analyze financial constraints for R&D, where we account for heterogeneity among investments which has been neglected in previous literature. According to economic theory, investments should be distinguished by their degree of uncertainty, e.g. routine R&D versus cutting-edge R&D. Financial...

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R&D Investment and Financing Constraints of Small and Medium-Sized Firm

Czarnitzki, Dirk; Binz, Hanna L. - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2008

This study tests for financial constraints on R&D investment and how they differ from capital investment. To identify constraints in the access to external capital, we employ a credit rating index. Our models show that internal constraints, measured by mark-ups, are more decisive for R&D than...

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The antecedents and innovation consequences of organizational search: empirical evidence for Spain

Lucena, Abel - Xarxa de Referència en Economia Aplicada (XREAP) - 2009

This paper examines the antecedents and innovation consequences of the methods firms adopt in organizing their search …

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