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There are over 3 billion searches globally on Google every day. This report examines whether Google search queries can be used to predict the present and the near future unemployment rate in Finland. Predicting the present and the near future is of interest, as the official records of the state...
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Our study aims at shedding light on the organizational mechanisms that produce differences in the firmsŽ innovation … fruitful for innovation. There are vast differences in the organizational practices leading to more innovation both between the … small and large firms, and between the firms that are functioning in high- and low-tech industries. While innovation in the …
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findings emphasize the role of a firms absorptive capacity and its ICT competence in data-based innovation. It seems that … customer involvement in innovation process positively relates to the production of new data-based products and services. The … reported empirical findings further indicate that data-based product and service innovation tends to be rather strongly demand-driven. …
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market equilibrium and whether innovation subsidies can improve industry productivity by mitigating such a tax distortion. …Radical innovations require risk-taking. However, it is hard to find an objective measure for innovation investments … that would take riskiness into account. In this paper, we investigate how a simple measure of firms’ innovation investments …
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Abstract: To examine the productivity, employment and wage effects of ICT, we apply novel occupation based measures of … changes. Our results support the view that organisational change complements ICT investments in a productivity …-enhancing manner. In particular, the ICT-driven productivity gains are associated with the destruction of routine and non …
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This paper examines how CEO pay is related to firm size and to firm performance in Finland by using new individual-level compensation data in 1996-2002. We find robust evidence that CEO average compensation has increased substantially between 1996 and 2002. For example, the ratio between CEO and...
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Most existing empirical work on technology diffusion assumes technologies to remain constant throughout the diffusion process. However, many consumer technologies improve significantly over time. Using data on the characteristics of new mobile handsets over a ten-year period and controlling for...
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innovative product introduction. We find that while most product introduction is imitative, both types of innovation increase … firm value. However, truly innovative innovation is found to increase firm value by more than imitative introductions. …
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We document the evolution of product innovation and features in the mobile telephone handset market. We distinguish … between two types of product innovation : vertical and horizontal innovation. Using data from 1990 - 2003, we find that some …
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mobility and connectivity of a firms ICT stock in conjunction with various organizational innovation and HRM practices affect …
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