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Combining technology and work organization: An analysis of complementarity between IT and decentralization across firms of different size

Rasel, Fabienne - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2014

This paper examines whether information technology (IT) and decentralized work organization are complementary only for large firms or also for smaller firms. Empirical evidence, which suggests complementarity between IT and decentralization, is mainly based on large firms. Using data from a...

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Trade and technology: New evidence on the productivity sorting of firms

Bertschek, Irene; Hogrefe, Jan; Rasel, Fabienne - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2013

Using a unique German firm-level data set, we provide empirical evidence for a productivity sorting along two dimensions: international activity and technology choice. We consider domestic and exporting firms and measure technology choice by firms' actual use of advanced information technology...

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Cost of Living and Wages in the Metropolitans Regions in Brazil

Almeida, Alexandre de; Spolador, Humberto; Azzoni, Carlos - European Regional Science Association - 2014

This paper analyses the relationship between household cost of living and wages in the Brazilian metropolitan regions. The country's economic growth in the last decade contributed significantly to structural economic changes at the regional level, in terms of employment, population growth and...

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The Impact of Brazilian Regional Development Funds on Regional Economic Growth: A spatial panel approach

Resende, Guilherme; Cravo, Tulio; Carvalho, Alexandre - European Regional Science Association - 2014

In Brazil, the regional development policy is directed by the regional development funds for the Northeast (FNE), the …

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Intermediate input markets, ICT and innovation in Germany: A firm level analysis

Cerquera, Daniel; Klein, Gordon J. - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2013

This paper studies the impact of the adoption of ICT on the economic performance at the firm level, considering explicitly the interaction of adopting firms within the intermediate input market in Germany. The paper identifies and quantifies the importance of adoption externalities and knowledge...

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The impact on innovation off-shoring on organizational adaptability

Baier, Elisabeth; Rammer, Christian; Schuber, Torben - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2013

We analyze the effects of captive off-shoring of innovation activities on the firms' ability to adapt their … Community Innovation Survey to test our hypotheses. We find an inverted u-shape of innovation off-shoring on the effectiveness … of organizational adaptability, implying an optimal threshold value of innovation off-shoring. This value is 11% for …

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Do trademarks diminish the substitutability of products in innovative knowledge-intensive services?

Crass, Dirk; Schwiebacher, Franz - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2013

Trademarks are often supposed to reduce substitutability and imitability of product innovations. Using German CIS data for 2010, we provide empirical evidence that trademarking firms assess easy product substitutability as less characteristic for their competitive environment. This is...

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How important is industry-specific managerial experience for innovative firm performance?

Balsmeier, Benjamin; Czarnitzki, Dirk - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2014

This study examines how industry-specific managerial experience affects firms' innovation performance in the context of …

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Innovation, employment growth, and foreign ownership of firms: A European perspective

Dachs, Bernhard; Peters, Bettina - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2013

This paper examines how foreign-owned and domestically owned firms transform innovation into employment growth. The …, reveals important differences between the two groups: Due to general productivity increases and process innovation, foreign … innovation are larger for foreignowned firms. Together with employment-stimulating effects stemming from existing products, they …

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Innovative capability and financing constraints for innovation: More money, more innovation?

Hottenrott, Hanna; Peters, Bettina - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2012

This study presents a novel empirical approach to identify financing constraints for innovation based on the concept of …. If they selected additional innovation projects, they must have had some unexploited investment opportunities that were … not profitable using more costly external finance. We attribute constraints for innovation not only to lacking financing …

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