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Gains and Pains from Contract Research : A Transaction and Firm-level Perspective

Grimpe, Christoph; Kaiser, Ulrich - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung <Mannheim>

Determining the research and development (R&D) boundaries of the firm as the choicebetween internal, collaborative and external technology acquisition has since long been amajor challenge for firms to secure a continuous stream of innovative products or processes.While research on R&D...

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Motives for Innovation Co-operation Evidence from theCanadian Survey of Innovation

Schmidt Tobias - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung <Mannheim>

In this paper we analyse the decision of firms in the Canadian manufacturing sectorto co-operate on innovation projects …. Our focus is on the motives behind this decisionand the firm characteristics, both general and with respect to innovation … activities,which influence the motives for innovation co-operation. Using data from theCanadian Survey of Innovation 2005 we find …

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The Gender Earnings Gap inside a Russian Firm : First Evidence from Personnel Data - 1997 to 2002

Dohmen, Thomas; Lehmann, Hartmut; Zaiceva, Anzelika - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008

Using unique personnel data from one Russian firm for the years 1997 to 2002 we study the size, development and determinants of the gender earnings gap in an internal labor market during late transition. The gap is sizable but declines strongly over the entire period. Gender earnings...

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Informal Employment Relationships and LaborMarket Segmentation in Transition Economies:Evidence from Ukraine

Lehmann, Hartmut; Pignatti, Norberto - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

Research on informal employment in transition countries has been very limited because of alack of appropriate data. A new rich panel data set from Ukraine, the Ukrainian LongitudinalMonitoring Survey (ULMS), enables us to provide some empirical evidence on informalemployment in Ukraine and the...

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International Cooperation on Innovation : Empirical Evidence for German and Portuguese Firms

Faria, Pedro; Schmidt, Tobias - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung <Mannheim>

In this paper we investigate the factors that lead firms to cooperate withpartners from foreign countries on innovation … activities. Portuguese and Germandata from the harmonised Community Innovation Survey (CIS III) allow us tocompare innovation …

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Mitarbeiteranreizsysteme und Innovationserfolg

Kraft, Kornelius; Czarnitzki, Dirk - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung <Mannheim>

Wir diskutieren die Faktoren für eine erfolgreiche Umsetzung eines Systems desbetrieblichen Vorschlagswesens und anderer Maßnahmen zur Stimulierung desInnovationserfolgs. Im Anschluss wird die Wirkung des betrieblichenVorschlagswesens auf den Innovationserfolg empirisch überprüft....

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IMITATION, PATENT PROTECTION AND WELFARE

Mukherjee, Arijit; Pennings, Enrico - University <Nottingham> / Department of Economics - 2003

Once a new technology has been invented, there is a credible threat of imitationwhen patents are long and imitation cost is low. When imitation is credible, the innovator hasan incentive to postpone technology adoption for relatively high cost of imitation. Thepossibility of licensing eliminates...

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Individual or team decision-making –Causes and consequences of self-selection

Kocher, Martin; Strauß, Sabine; Sutter, Matthias - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> / Abteilung … - 2004

Even though decision-making in small teams is pervasive in business and in private life, littleis known about subjects’ preferences with respect to individual and team decision-making andabout the consequences of respecting these preferences. We report the results from anexperimental...

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Konsequenzen der Strategiedebattefür die Produktion

Krcal, Hans-Christian - Alfred-Weber-Institut für Sozial- und … - 2007

The paper shows how traditional organizational structures within the productionsector, such as quality circles, learning groups (“Lernstatt”) and projectteams reflect the constructivist and postmodern concepts of strategic managementwith their wide ignorance of purely plan deterministic...

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Die Rolle der „Fertigungstiefe“ als Variablein der Gegenstromplanung von Strategien

Krcal, Hans-Christian - Alfred-Weber-Institut für Sozial- und … - 2007

Der vorliegende Beitrag zeigt, dass die Festlegung der Fertigungstiefein der Gegenstromplanung von Strategien kein stringentes Instrumentder Unternehmensführung ist. Die Top-Down und Bottom-Up Analyseüber die hierarchischen Ebenen der Unternehmens-, Wettbewerbs- undFunktionalstrategie liefert...

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