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An empirical test of the asymmetric models on innovative activity : who invests more into R&D - the incumbent or the challenger?
Czarnitzki, Dirk - 2000
The theoretical discussion concerning the question whether the incumbent or the (potential) entrant invests more into R&D has attracted considerable interest. This paper reports the results of an empirical study on this question using data of about 3500 German firms over the years 1992 to 1995....
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Environmental innovation and firm profitability : an analysis with respect to firm size
Axenbeck, Janna - 2019
between small and medium-sized (SME) and large (LE) enterprises. Using data from the Mannheim Innovation Panel (MIP) 2015 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012055635
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Aggregate information and organizational structures
Celik, Gorkem; Shin, Dongsoo; Strausz, Roland - 2022
We study information flows in an organization with a top management (principal) and multiple subunits (agents) with private information that determines the organization's aggregate efficiency. Under centralization, eliciting the agents' private information may induce the principal to manipulate...
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Insourcing vs outsourcing in vertical structure
Shin, Dongsoo; Strausz, Roland - 2024
We study an agency model with vertical hierarchy - the principal, the prime-agent and the sub-agent. The principal faces a project that needs both agents' services. Due to costly communication, the principal receives a report only from the prime-agent, who receives a report from the sub-agent....
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Research cooperation and research expenditures with endogenous absorptive capacity : theory and microeconometric evidence for the German service sector
Kaiser, Ulrich - 2000
collaborate in R&D is increasing in R&D productivity. The key findings of the theoretical model are tested using German innovation … survey data for the service sector. A simultaneous model for cooperation choice and innovation expenditures shows that R …&D cooperation has a weakly significant positive effect on innovation expenditures. The empirical results broadly support the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013428320
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The transmission of sectoral shocks across the innovation network
Fons-Rosen, Christian; Pu, Zhaoxin - 2020
Recent innovation literature has documented the benefits of cross-pollination of ideas across a wide set of industries …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012150167
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Predictability of future economic growth and the credibility of monetary regimes in Germany, 1870 - 2003
Baltzer, Markus; Kling, Gerhard - In: Applied economics letters 14 (2007) 4/6, pp. 401-404
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Transaction cost theory refined : theoretical and empirical evidence from a business-to-business marketing perspective
Ungruhe, Markus; Kreis, Henning; Kleinaltenkamp, Michael - 2010
Recently, integrating Transaction Cost Economic (TCE) and Resource Based View (RBV) arguments has become one of the most prominent theoretical approaches in research on business relationships. We question this dominance and strengthen an exclusive TCE perspective by recalling two of the core TCE...
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The export-growth relationship : estimating a dose-response function
Fryges, Helmut - In: Applied economics letters 16 (2009) 16/18, pp. 1855-1859
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Banks' concentration versus diversification in the loan portfolio : new evidence from Germany
Jahn, Nadya; Memmel, Christoph; Pfingsten, Andreas - 2013
. In our empirical study for the period 2003-2011, we find that (a) banks which are specialized in certain industries have …
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