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Environmental innovations and profitability: How does it pay to be green? An empirical analysis on the German innovation survey

Ghisetti, Claudia; Rennings, Klaus - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2013

' profitability with opposite signs, and, secondly, whether the motivations driving the adoption of those innovations make the …

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Auswirkungen der Wirtschaftskrise auf die Innovationstätigkeit der Unternehmen in Deutschland

Rammer, Christian - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2011

Die schwere Wirtschaftskrise 2008/09 hatte substanzielle Auswirkungen auf die Innovationstätigkeit der deutschen Wirtschaft. Die Umsatz- und Gewinneinbußen führten zu einem kräftigen Rückgang der Innovationsausgaben. Davon waren primär Investitionen für neue Produkte und verbesserte...

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Does social software support service innovation?

Meyer, Jenny - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2009

Recent Internet technologies and web-based applications, such as social software, are being increasingly applied in firms. Social software can be employed for knowledge management and for external communication enabling access to internal and external knowledge. Knowledge in turn constitutes one...

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There's no Place Like Home: A Strategic Framework to Overcome Liability of Foreignness in the German Car Market

Sofka, Wolfgang; Zimmermann, Jörg - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2005

Globalization has led to exciting new business opportunities around the globe. Still, national and cultural boundaries have not evaporated into a "borderless world". Several studies have identified so-called liabilities of foreignness that arise from a lack of embeddedness and roots in the host...

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The pulse of liability of foreignness: dynamic legitimacy and experiences effects in the German car market

Kaiser, Ulrich; Sofka, Wolfgang - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2006

Globalization has provided many companies with new opportunities for growth and efficiency. This requires them to operate successfully across cultural and social borders. These can be stumbling blocks to internationalization and have been found to cause frequent errors and delays for...

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Erfolgreiche Forschung und Entwicklung nach Unternehmensakquisitionen: Eine empirische Untersuchung der Post Merger Integrationsprozesse

Grimpe, Christoph - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2005

Die Zusammenführung von Forschungs- und Entwicklungsbereichen als Folge einer Fusion oder Akquisition erfordert in der Regel ein umfassendes Integrationsprojekt, um die Innovationsfähigkeit des Unternehmens auch in Zukunft sicherzustellen. Auf Basis eines konzeptionellen Bezugsrahmens erfolgt...

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Integration and Reorganisation of Industrial R&D: Deficits and Perspectives of Empirical Research

Grimpe, Christoph - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2005

The combination of research and development units following a merger or an acquisition usually requires a broad and widespread integration project to ensure that a company?s innovative capabilities are carried forward into the future. Previous research has shown, however, that the combined...

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Spillovers of Innovation Activities and Their Profitability

Czarnitzki, Dirk; Kraft, Kornelius - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2007

leakage of knowledge in an industry will negatively affect profitability. This paper presents the results of an empirical … study on the effects of outgoing and incoming spillovers on firms? profitability. It turns out that the expected asymmetry …

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On the Profitability of Innovative Assets

Kraft, Kornelius; Czarnitzki, Dirk - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2004

on the effects of the patent stock on profitability. The data base is a representative sample of German manufacturing … patent stock has a strong and robust effect on profitability. …

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Exports and Profitability: First Evidence for German Manufacturing Firms

Fryges, Helmut; Wagner, Joachim - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2008

Germany, this paper presents the first comprehensive evidence on the relationship between exports and profitability. It … documents that the positive profitability differential of exporters compared to non-exporters is statistically significant …. Instead, we use a newly developed continuous treatment approach and show that exporting improves the profitability almost over …

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