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Corporate Social Responsibility in the work place - Experimental evidence on CSR from a gift-exchange game

Koppel, Hannes; Regner, Tobias - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

We analyze the effect of investments in corporate social responsibility (CSR) on workers' motivation. In our experiment, a gift exchange game variant, CSR is captured by donating a certain share of profits to a charity. We are testing for CSR effects by varying the possible share of profits...

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Democratic Capitalism and Philanthropy in a Global Economy

Acs, Zoltan J.; Desai, Sameeksha - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

globalization. It is a model based on growth, expansion and constant innovation. However, it is accompanied by social problems which …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005090492

Business Cycles, Unemployment and Entrepreneurial Entry - First Evidence from Germany

Fritsch, Michael; Kritikos, Alexander; Pijnenburg, Katharina - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

We investigate whether people become more willingly self-employed during boom periods or in recessions and to what extent it is the business cycle or the employment status influencing entry rates into entrepreneurship. Our analysis for Germany reveals that start-up activities are positively...

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A Schumpeterian Heterogeneous Agent Model of the Business Cycle with Innovation Spreads instead of Innovation Swarms

Schohl, Frank - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1998

lack of empirical confirmation. In particular, the three-wave-scheme stands in contradiction to empirical innovation …

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The Regional Dimension of Sectoral Innovativeness An Empirical Investigation of Two Specialised Supplier and Two Science-Based Industries

Cantner, Uwe; Bürger, Matthias - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

The aim of this paper is to test how geographical and technological proximity relate to a particular industry's innovative output. Two mechanisms are therefore tested, i.e. agglomeration economies and the regional exploitation of technological proximity. A new dataset is applied, which includes...

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The Spatial Diffusion of a Knowledge Base-Laser Technology Research in West Germany, 1960-2005

Fritsch, Michael; Medrano, Luis F. - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

We analyze the spatial diffusion of knowledge in laser technology in West Germany from 1960, when this technology began, until 2005. Laser technology research has been nearly exclusively conducted in regions that are home to a university with a physics or electrical engineering department, an...

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Regional Knowledge and the Emergence of an Industry: Laser Systems Production in West Germany, 1975-2005

Bünstorf, Guido; Fritsch, Michael; Medrano, Luis F. - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

We analyze the emergence and spatial evolution of the German laser systems industry. Regional knowledge in the related field of laser sources, as well as the presence of universities with physics or engineering departments, is conducive to the emergence of laser systems suppliers. The regional...

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Emergence of Innovation Networks from R&D Cooperation with Endogenous Absorptive Capacity

Savin, Ivan; Egbetokun, Abiodun - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

This paper extends the existing literature on strategic R&D alliances by presenting a model of innovation networks with … intensity of cooperation and innovation. Within different knowledge regimes, we examine the structure of networks that emerge …

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Motivating innovation in a knowledge economy with tax incentives

d'Andria, Diego; Savin, Ivan - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015

In the past decades the role of profit sharing schemes (PSS) as a way to foster innovation in a principal-agent context …, and more generally of innovation in economic growth, have been widely acknowledged and studied. However, surprisingly … innovation in a pure knowledge economy: a 'patent box' incentive and a tax incentive on compensation earned by agents as PSS. A …

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Patent Citations, University Inventor Patents, and Survival in the German Laser Source Industry (1960-2005)

Luis F. Medrano E. - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

The relationship between innovation and firm survival is analyzed for the population of German laser source producers … from the beginning of the industry until 2005. Innovation effort is approximated by the generation of high quality patents …

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