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Phylogenetic Footprints in Organizational Behavior

Witt, Ulrich; Schwesinger, Georg - Volkswirtschaft Abteilung, Fachbereich … - 2012

An evolutionary tool kit is applied in this paper to explain how innate social behavior traits evolved in early human groups. These traits were adapted to the particular production requirements of the group in human phylogeny. They shaped the group members' attitudes towards contributing to the...

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Long-term Tendencies in Technological Creativity - A Preference-based Approach

Cordes, C. - Volkswirtschaft Abteilung, Fachbereich … - 2003

motivational underpinnings of human technological creativity that is able to explain some long-term developments in human labor and …

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Is Academic Entrepreneurship Good or Bad for Science? Empirical Evidence from the Max Planck Society

Buenstorf, Guido - Volkswirtschaft Abteilung, Fachbereich … - 2006

Based on new data, this paper studies invention disclosure, licensing, and firm formation activities of Max Planck Institute directors over the time period 1985-2004, and analyzes their effects on scientists' publication and citation records. The results are consistent with prior findings that...

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Micro-dynamics of knowledge: actors, processes and territorial organization

Strambach, Simone - Volkswirtschaft Abteilung, Fachbereich … - 2013

innovation biographies. …

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Science, Innovation and National Growth

Brenner, Thomas - Volkswirtschaft Abteilung, Fachbereich … - 2014

This paper studies the effects of public research (publications) and innovation output (patents) on national economic … as well as less and more developed countries are studied separately. The results confirm the effect of innovation output … on productivity for more developed countries. Simultaneously, innovation output is found to have negative impacts on …

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Empirical Analysis of the Assessment of Innovation Effects in U.S. Merger Cases

Kerber, Wolfgang; Kern, Benjamin; Dewenter, Ralf - Volkswirtschaft Abteilung, Fachbereich … - 2014

and 2008 were analyzed in regard to the question to what extent and how the agencies assessed the innovation effects of … mergers. Theoretical background is the still open question how negative effects of mergers on innovation should be taken into … account in merger policy. Although we can show in our study that in one third of all challenged mergers also innovation …

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The Regional Dimension of Knowledge Transfers - A Behavioral Approach

Broekel, Tom; Binder, Martin - Volkswirtschaft Abteilung, Fachbereich … - 2006

Innovations are inherently connected to knowledge transfers. The need of face-to-face contacts to transfer tacit knowledge is commonly argued to cause a regional dimension of innovative activities. The paper presents an alternative explanation based on a model of boundedly rational actors who...

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Distance to Frontier and Appropriate Business Strategy

Coad, Alexander - Volkswirtschaft Abteilung, Fachbereich … - 2008

This paper is an empirical test of the hypothesis that the appropriateness of different business strategies is conditional on the firm's distance to the industry frontier. We use data on four 2-digit high-tech manufacturing industries in the US over the period 1972-1999, and apply...

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How Corporate Cultures Coevolve with the Business Environment: The Case of Firm Growth Crises and Industry Evolution

Cordes, Christian; Richerson, Peter J.; Schwesinger, Georg - Volkswirtschaft Abteilung, Fachbereich … - 2009

This paper shows how cognitive human dispositions that take effect at the level of an individual firm's corporate culture have repercussions on an industry's evolution. In our theory, the latter is attributable to evolving corporate cultures coupled with changes in a firm's business environment....

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Is Socially Responsible Investing Really Beneficial? New Empirical Evidence for the US and European Stock Markets

Mollet, Janick Christian; Ziegler, Andreas - Volkswirtschaft Abteilung, Fachbereich … - 2012

This paper empirically examines the theoretically ambivalent relationship between socially responsible investing (SRI) and stock performance. It extends the existing literature by considering both the US and the entire European stock markets as well as by using consistent world-wide corporate...

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