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The link between firm-level innovation and aggregate productivity growth: a cross-country examination
Heshmati, Almas; Lööf, Hans - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2003
This paper investigates whether failure in innovation at the firm level can account for cross-country heterogeneity in manufacturing productivity growth. There is no strong evidence in the literature on the existence of such link. Our work, however, differs in a number of ways from much of the...
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B2B or Not to Be: Does B2B E-Commerce Increase Labour Productivity?
Bertschek, Irene; Fryges, Helmut; Kaiser, Ulrich - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2004
We implement an endogeneous switching-regression model for labour productivity and firms' decision to use business-to-business (B2B) e-commerce. Our approach allows B2B usage to affect any parameter of the labour productivity equation and to properly take account of strategic complementarities...
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More bits - more bucks? Measuring the impact of broadband internet on firm performance
Bertschek, Irene; Cerquera, Daniel; Klein, Gordon J. - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2011
The paper provides empirical evidence for the causal impact of broadband Internet on the economic performance of German firms. Performance is measured in terms of labour productivity and realised process and product innovations. The analysis refers to the early phase of DSL expansion in Germany...
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Management Control and Innovative Activity
Czarnitzki, Dirk; Kraft, Kornelius - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2000
This paper discusses theoretically the different incentives of managers versus firm owners to invest in innovative …
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Why training older employees is less effective
Zwick, Thomas - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2011
This paper shows that training of older employees is less effective. Training effectiveness is measured with respect to key dimensions such as career development, earnings, adoption of new skills, flexibility or job security. Older employees also pursue less ambitious goals with their training...
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Awards at work
Neckermann, Susanne; Cueni, Reto; Frey, Bruno S. - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2012
Social incentives like employee awards are widespread in the corporate sector and may be important instruments for …
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How creative are you? An experimental study on self-selection in a competitive incentive scheme for creative performance
Bradler, Christiane - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2015
Economic theory suggests that performance pay may serve as an effective screening device to attract productive agents …
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Knowing that you matter, matters! The interplay of meaning, monetary incentives, and worker recognition
Kosfeld, Michael; Neckermann, Susanne; Yang, Xiaolan - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2014
the effect of meaning to the effect of monetary incentives and of worker recognition via symbolic awards. We also look at … interaction effects. While meaning outperforms monetary incentives, the latter have a robust positive effect on performance that … results are in line with image-reward theory (Bénabou and Tirole 2006) and suggest that meaning and worker recognition operate …
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The effects of public spending composition on firm productivity
Kneller, Richard; Misch, Florian - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2013
This paper exploits the unique institutional features of South Africa to estimate the impact of provincial public spending on health, education and transport on firm productivity. Our identification strategy is based on within industry-province differences between firms of the effects of public...
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Combining technology and work organization: An analysis of complementarity between IT and decentralization across firms of different size
Rasel, Fabienne - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2014
This paper examines whether information technology (IT) and decentralized work organization are complementary only for large firms or also for smaller firms. Empirical evidence, which suggests complementarity between IT and decentralization, is mainly based on large firms. Using data from a...
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