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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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Endogenous Leadership in Teams

Biel, Pedro Rey; Huck, Steffen - EconWPA - 2005

In this paper we study the mechanics of ``leading by example'' in teams. Leadership is beneficial for the entire team … when agents are conformists, i.e., dislike effort differentials. We also show how leadership can arise endogenously and …

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STRATEGIC LEADERSHIP:THE PLATFORM FOR POLITICAL SUCCESS

Jones, Peter W - EconWPA - 2004

through continual work and study. The best leaders are continually working and studying to improve their leadership skills. …

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Toward an Economic Theory of Leadership: Leading by Example

Hermalin, Benjamin E. - EconWPA - 1997

This paper explores leadership within organizations. Leadership is distinct from authority because following a leader …

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Should top universities be led by top researchers, and are they?

Goodall, Amanda H - EconWPA - 2005

This paper addresses the question: should the world’s top universities be led by top researchers, and are they? The lifetime citations are counted by hand of the leaders of the world’s top 100 universities identified in a global university ranking. These numbers are then normalised by...

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Should Research Universities be Led by Top Researchers? Part 1: Are they?

Goodall, Amanda H - EconWPA - 2005

If the best universities in the world – who have the widest choice of candidates – systematically appoint top researchers as their vice chancellors and presidents, is this one form of evidence that, on average, better researchers make better leaders? This paper addresses the first part of...

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High status for all? Cheating the zero-sum mechanism of happiness.

Galochkin, Igor - EconWPA - 2005

We state the following hypotheses: 1) Happiness depends on social rank – a term from primatology meaning the place in group hierarchy which determines mating chances, number of offspring and food share; this dependence explains the correlation between relative income and subjective well-being...

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Employee Portals

Bauer, Hans H.; Hammerschmidt, Maik; Hallbauer, Axel - EconWPA - 2004

Mit dem Einsatz von Employee Portalen verfolgen Unternehmen das Ziel, eine leistungsfaehige Technologie zur Schaffung von sog. personalisierten Arbeitsplaetzen am Desktop eines jeden Mitarbeiters bereitzustellen. Das Portal versorgt als Front-end des virtuellen Arbeitsplatzes den Mitarbeiter mit...

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Absorptive Capacity – One Size Fits All? A Firm-level Analysis of Absorptive Capacity for Different Kinds of Knowledge

Schmidt, Tobias - EconWPA - 2005

from research institutions. Using data from the German innovation survey we investigate how firms are able to exploit … knowledge from external partners for successful innovation activities. The estimation results show that the determinants of … absorptive capacity differ with respect to the type of knowledge absorbed for innovation activities. In particular we find that …

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Industrial Sector Growth Accounting of Some Indian States and Union Territories: A Data Envelopment Analysis

Mathur, Somesh Kumar; Ahmed, Shahid - EconWPA - 2005

We work out technical efficiency levels of the Indian States and Union Territories using Data Envelopment Analysis from 1980-81 to 1997-98. We decompose net value added per worker growth into components attributable to technological changes (shifts in the overall production...

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