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Community Enterprises: An institutional innovation

Frey, Bruno S.; Lüthi, Roger; Osterloh, Margit - 2011

Management research has long focused on the theory of the firm, studying for-profit organizations that produce privately owned resources based on central authority and within well-defined boundaries. In recent times, a new kind of enterprise has emerged that we call Community Enterprises. They...

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Yes, managers should be paid like bureaucrats

Frey, Bruno S.; Osterloh, Margit - 2005

Corporate scandals, reflected in excessive management compensation and fraudulent accounts, cause considerable damage. Agency theory's insistence on linking the compensation of managers and directors as closely as possible to firm performance is a major reason for these scandals. They cannot be...

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Knight fever : towards an economics of awards

Frey, Bruno S. - 2005

Awards in the form of orders, medals, decorations and titles are ubiquitous in monarchies and republics, private organizations, not-for-profit and profit-oriented firms. Nevertheless, economists have disregarded this kind of non-material extrinsic incentive. The demand for awards relies on an...

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CDM 20 years after

Lööf, Hans; Mairesse, Jacques; Mohnen, Pierre A. - In: Economics of innovation and new technology 26 (2017) 1/2, pp. 1-5

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Trade Liberalization, Input Intermediaries and Firm Productivity: Evidence from China

Defever, Fabrice; Imbruno, Michele; Kneller, Richard - 2019

We investigate theoretically and empirically the role of wholesalers in mediating the productivity effects of trade … liberalization. Intermediaries provide indirect access to foreign produced inputs. The productivity effects of input tariff cuts on … firms experience productivity gains from reducing input tariffs if trade intermediation of foreign inputs within their …

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Cloud Computing and Firm Growth

DeStefano, Timothy; Kneller, Richard; Timmis, Jonathan - 2020

Cloud computing enables a shift in the costs of ICT adoption from investment in fixed capital to pay-on-demand services allowing firms to scale and reorganize. Using new firm-level data we examine the impact of cloud on firm growth, using zip-code-level instruments of the timing of high-speed...

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Dynamic Models of R&D, Innovation and Productivity: Panel Data Evidence for Dutch and French Manufacturing

Raymond, Wladimir; Mairesse, Jacques; Mohnen, Pierre; … - 2013

This paper introduces dynamics in the R&D to innovation and innovation to productivity relationships, which have mostly … conditional mean of labor productivity: through an observed binary indicator, an observed intensity variable or through the … Community Innovation Survey. The results provide evidence of robust unidirectional causality from innovation to productivity and …

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Evidence on the impact of R&D and ICT investments on innovation and productivity in Italian firms

Hall, Bronwyn H.; Lotti, Francesca; Mairesse, Jacques - In: Economics of innovation and new technology 22 (2013) 3/4, pp. 300-328

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Intangible capital and productivity at the firm level : a panel data assessment

Bontempi, Maria Elena; Mairesse, Jacques - In: Economics of innovation and new technology 24 (2015) 1/2, pp. 22-51

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Computers and productivity in France : some evidence

Greenan, Nathalie; Mairesse, Jacques - In: Economics of innovation and new technology 9 (2000) 3, pp. 275-315

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