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Review of the Literature on the Impact of Mergers on Innovation
Schulz, Norbert - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2007
Both M&A and innovation are instruments for growth and competitive advantage. Therefore they are fundamental to each firm?s competitive strategy. Usually, both instruments have been studied separately, but much less in conjunction. This is unfortunate as both processes - the process of...
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IT outsourcing and employment growth at the firm level
Ohnemus, Jörg - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2010
Outsourcing is widely associated with accompanied job losses in the outsourcing firm, at least in the short run …. However, the medium and long run effects of outsourcing on employment growth might still be positive. This paper particularly … focuses on IT outsourcing and its medium-term effects on employment growth. Therefore, a three year time period from 2003 to …
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The adoption of social enterprise software
Engelstätter, Benjamin; Sarbu, Miruna - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2011
Social enterprise software is a highly promising software application for firms, though it is still in an infancy state. It offers rapid real-time information transfer based on business collaboration tools or instant messaging. The software collects and processes customer data from surveys,...
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Enterprise software and service innovation: Standardization versus customization
Engelstätter, Benjamin; Sarbu, Miruna - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2010
This paper analyzes the relationship between service innovation and different types of enterprise software systems, i.e. standardized enterprise software designed to fit one certain business sector and enterprise software specifically customized for a single firm. Using firm-level data of a...
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Does social software increase labour productivity?
Sarbu, Miruna - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2013
Social software applications such as wikis, blogs or social networks are being increasingly applied in firms. These applications can be used for external communication as well as knowledge management enabling firms to access internal and external knowledge. Firms can optimize customer...
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Are there financing constraints for R&D and investment in German manufacturing firms?
Harhoff, Dietmar - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 1996
Using a newly constructed panel dataset of German enterprises, I estimate R&D and capital investment equations for the time period from 1990 to 1994. Simple accelerator specifications indicate considerable sensitivity of R&D and investment to cash flow for relatively small firms. Much of this...
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Enterprise systems and innovations
Engelstätter, Benjamin - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2009
This paper analyzes the relationship between the three main enterprise systems (Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Supply Chain Management (SCM), Customer Relationship Management (CRM)) and firms' innovational performance. It studies whether the enterprise systems have impacts on process as...
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I Like The Way You Move: An Empirical Investigation into the Mechanisms Behind First Mover and Follower Strategies
Sofka, Wolfgang; Schmidt, Tobias - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2004
There appears to be an ambivalent dimension in innovation strategies: timing. When is an innovation ready for the market or when is the market ready for the innovation? This paper empirically investigates the determinants of a firm?s decision to become a first mover or a follower in innovation...
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Women on the board and executive duration: Evidence for European listed firms
Buchwald, Achim; Hottenrott, Hanna - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2015
The participation of women in top-level corporate boards (or rather the lack of it) is subject to intense public debate. Several countries are considering legally binding quotas to increase the share of women on boards. Indeed, research on board diversity suggests positive effects of gender...
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Open Source, ICT infrastructure and firm performance
Cerquera Dussán, Daniel; Müller, Bettina - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2009
implementation of open source software. Moreover, the analysis shows that the adoption of OSS operating systems for PCs has a …
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