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There is ample evidence that user-producer interaction is an important factor for successful innovations. It is often claimed that user-producer interaction is most effcient in close proximity. On the other hand, innovations are a major determinant for the export performance of firms. Does this...
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Using a unique German firm-level data set, we provide empirical evidence for a productivity sorting along two …
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The literature on within-firm organizational change and productivity suggests that firms can make more efficient use of … technologies and that joint adoption leads to higher productivity. Without having introduced complementary organizational … innovations, the adoption of CO2 reducing technologies is associated with lower productivity. …
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International engagement is often expected to improve firm performance. Especially for small technology-oriented firms, export activities may be important, being regarded as one way to amortise these firms? high product research and development costs. This paper examines the relationship between...
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linkages between the firm's R&D investment, product and process innovations, and future productivity and profits. The dynamic …&D investment. For the median productivity firm, investment in R&D raises firm value by 3.0 percent in a group of hightech … significantly affect R&D investment rates and productivity changes in the high-tech industries. …
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manufacturing productivity growth. There is no strong evidence in the literature on the existence of such link. Our work, however … productivity using firm-level data. First, a broader definition of innovation input is used in which research and development is …
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?intensive firms. Comparing the impacts on productivity and wage costs shows that ICT raise the profitability of training high …
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estimated in order to explore differences in labor productivity between IT outsourcing and non-IT outsourcing firms. This … positively affecting firms? labor productivity. An additional analysis indicates that IT outsourcing, in the medium-term, has a …
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assets are conducive to firm-level productivity. Our study contributes to the literature by simultaneously comparing … productivity effects of innovative capital, human capital, branding capital and organizational capital and testing whether … econometric estimates confirm strong positive productivity effects of human capital and branding capital. Results for innovative …
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Do firms sourcing out IT services redirect their resources to innovation activity? We attempt to answer this question by analysing a firm-level data set comprising 1453 firms from the German manufacturing and services sectors. Using different measures of IT outsourcing (ITO), the econometric...
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