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Environmentally-oriented innovative strategies and firm performances in services: Micro-evidence from Italy
Cainelli, Giulio; Mazzanti, Massimiliano; Zoboli, Roberto - 2007
with 20 or more employees comprising 1993-1995 CIS II data on firm innovation strategic motivations and 1995-1998 data on … model in which the covariates include firm strategies (innovation and environmental), and a set of other explanatory … negative impact from environmental innovation strategy, implying either a short-medium effect, possibly balanced in the long …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010270950
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Social media and mental health
Braghieri, Luca; Levy, Ro'ee; Makarin, Alexey - 2022
The diffusion of social media coincided with a worsening of mental health conditions among adolescents and young adults in the United States, giving rise to speculation that social media might be detrimental to mental health. In this paper, we provide the first quasi-experimental estimates of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013197560
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Private Regulation by Platform Operators – Implications for Usage Intensity
Claussen, Jörg; Kretschmer, Tobias; Mayrhofer, Philip - 2010
Platforms operators act as private regulators to increase usage and maximize profits. Their goals depend on the development of the platform: overcoming the chicken-egg problem early on requires attracting platform participants while quality becomes more important later on. Private regulators...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010427784
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Employee Performance and Mental Well-Being: The Mitigating Effects of Transformational Leadership during Crisis
Czura, Kristina; Englmaier, Florian; Ho, Hoa; Spantig, Lisa - 2023
The positive role of transformational leadership on productivity and mental wellbeing has long been established. Transformational leadership behavior may be particularly suited to navigate times of crisis which are characterized by high levels of complexity and uncertainty. We exploit...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014467738
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Does Mobility Increase the Productivity of Inventors?
Hoisl, Karin - 2007
Although labor mobility has been recognized as a key mechanism for transferring tacit knowledge, prior research on inventors has so far hardly discussed the impact of a move on inventive performance. Additionally, existing research has neglected the differences in gains from a move between high...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010427729
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Institutionalized Incentives for Ingenuity – Patent Value and the German Employees’ Inventions Act
Harhoff, Dietmar; Hoisl, Karin - 2006
Germany is one of few countries in which the monetary compensation for inventors is not only determined by negotiations between employer and employee-inventor, but also by relatively precise legal provisions. In this paper, we describe the characteristics of the German Employees’ Inventions...
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Tracing Mobile Inventors – The Causality between Inventor Mobility and Inventor Productivity
Hoisl, Karin - 2006
This paper analyzes the causality between inventor productivity and inventor mobility. The results show that the level of education has no influence on inventor productivity. Making use of external sources of knowledge, on the contrary, has a significant effect on productivity. Finally, firm...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010427737
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Strategic Intellectual Property Rights Policy and North-South Technology Transfer
Naghavi, Alireza - 2005
developing countries (South) through its impact on innovation, market structure and technology transfer. In a North-South trade … environment, the South sets its IPR policy strategically to manipulate multinationals' decisions on innovation and location. Firms … stimulates innovation by pushing multinationals to deter entry in high-technology sectors. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010312577
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Parallel imports and innovation in an emerging economy
Mantovani, Andrea; Naghavi, Alireza - 2010
This paper studies the consequences of parallel import (PI) on process innovation of firms heterogeneous in their …. The impact of PI on innovation is determined by the degree of heterogeneity between firms and trade costs. Increasing … market, hence increases its innovation efforts. A tariff policy accompanied by opening borders to PI only increases welfare …
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Unbundling technology adoption and tfp at the firm level: Do intangibles matter?
Battisti, Michele; Belloc, Filippo; Del Gatto, Massimo - 2012
We use a panel of European firms to investigate the relationship between intangible assets and productivity. We disentangle between tfp and technology adoption, while available studies so far have considered only a notion of productivity conflating the two effects. To this aim, we estimate...
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