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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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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...

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Gender differences in business success of German start-up firms

Gottschalk, Sandra; Niefert, Michaela - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2011

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The impact of regulation-driven environmental innovation on innovation success and firm performance

Rennings, Klaus; Rammer, Christian - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2010

-driven environmental innovation may impose additional costs to firms and lower their profits. On the other hand, eco-innovators could … profit from lower uncertainty in innovation due to regulatory standards and demand-generating effects of regulation. In this … paper we analyse (a) whether regulation-driven environmental innovation generate similar innovation success compared to …

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University research alliances, absorptive capacity, and the contribution of startups to employment growths

Toole, Andrew A.; Czarnitzki, Dirk; Rammer, Christian - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2014

This paper examines how university research alliances and other cooperative links with universities contribute to startup employment growth. We argue that 'scientific absorptive capacity' at the startup is critical for reaping the benefits from university research alliances, but not necessarily...

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An international cohort comparison of size effects on job growth

Anyadike-Danes, Michael; Bjuggren, Carl-Magnus; … - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2014

The contribution of different-sized businesses to job creation continues to attract policymakers' attention, however, it has recently been recognized that conclusions about size were confounded with the effect of age. We probe the role of size, controlling for age, by comparing the cohorts of...

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Ownership concentration, institutional development and firm performance in Central and Eastern Europe

Balsmeier, Benjamin; Czarnitzki, Dirk - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2010

This paper analyzes the relationship of ownership concentration and firm performance in the context of different institutional environments in 28 Central and Eastern European transition economies. Using the BEEPS data for the period from 2002 to 2009 we find an inverted u-shaped relation of...

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University spinoffs and the 'performance premium'

Czarnitzki, Dirk; Rammer, Christian; Toole, Andrew A. - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2013

The creation of spinoff companies is often promoted as a desirable mechanism for transferring knowledge and technologies from research organizations to the private sector for commercialization. In the promotion process, policymakers typically treat these 'university' spinoffs like industry...

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Modelling production cost scenarios for biofuels and fossil fuels in Europe

Festel, Gunter; Würmseher, Martin; Rammer, Christian; … - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2013

This paper presents the results of a calculation model for biofuel production costs in 2015 and 2020 based on raw material price projections and considering scale and learning effects. Distinguishing six types of biofuels, the paper finds that scale economies and learning effects are critical...

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Job machine, think tank, or both: What makes corporate spinoffs different?

Fryges, Helmut; Müller, Bettina; Niefert, Michaela - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2013

employment growth and postentry innovation activities of the new firm. We focus on start-ups for which a new idea (a new product … terms of post-entry innovation activities. However, we cannot show that corporate spinoffs benefit from the transferred idea … subsequent post-entry innovation activities of corporate spinoffs. …

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