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Globalization has provided many companies with new opportunities for growth and efficiency. This requires them to …
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This study focuses on the early stages of international innovation activities, i.e. the organizational processes …
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Globalization has set new paradigms, especially in the business world. Breakthroughs in technology (telecommunications … for innovation at home. We suggest a combination of three factors to identify and explain such innovation strategies … customers as a source for innovation that is more beneficial to standardized products and becomes more feasible if the lead …
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Does globalization restrict the leeway for national budgetary policy? With the help of cluster and discriminant … dimensions are included in the analysis: tax structure, expenditure structure, public debt and budget size. Globalization as a … globalization does indeed matter for government budgets. However, substantial room for an individual national policy particularly in …
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Are the characteristics of the exchange rate regime relevant for the degree of fiscal discipline? What are the conclusions for fiscal behavior in Europe after the transition to EMU? These are the central questions that are analyzed in this paper from a theoretical point of view. After a general...
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The process of globalization has an important impact on national tax policies. Most of the literature on taxation of …
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[Innovation in Chemistry & the Chemical Industry in Germany] The chemical industry is one of the key sectors in the … German innovation system. Being devoted to research and innovation, the chemical industry is leading the development and … industries build their innovative efforts. The innovation performance of the chemical industry in Germany can be demonstrated by …
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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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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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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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