’s disadvantages, a combination that provides flexibility in resource allocation. -- Innovation Performance ; Resource Allocation …

activities by facilitating more flexible organisational structures in firms. We distinguish between functional flexibility (the … ability of workers to co-operate and take decentralised decisions) and numerical flexibility (the reduction of fixed costs …, mainly due to outsourcing business processes). Our results from a large and representative data set of firms in Germany show …

, Germany, Japan and the USA taking into account the different regulation schemes in these countries. We concentrate on … leader in the market segment of low and middle quality boilers, whereas Japan and Germany still dominate the world turbine … only applies to a limited extent. In the 1960s and 1970s, the USA has established a lead market for SC und USC technologies …

innovative technology within this trajectory. As for the diffusion of SC, the paper concentrates on Germany, USA, China and Japan …. The analysis shows that the typical lead market pattern applies only to a limited extent. In the 1960s and 1970s, the USA … has established a lead market for SC technology. In the meanwhile, Japan has surpassed the United States, although it …

large economies, USA, United Kingdom, Germany, France and Japan. The empirical results show that although the pure NGARCH …