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Foreign competition and executive compensation in the manufacturing industry : a comparison between Germany and the U.S.

Dyballa, Katharina; Kraft, Kornelius - 2018

impact of foreign competition on managerial compensation, (2) differences in the impact between Germany and the U.S. and (3 … covering the period from 1984-2010 for Germany respectively 1992-2011 for the U.S. and apply system GMM in order to solve … Germany. A differentiation between imported intermediates (efficient sourcing strategy) and final inputs (competition) reveals …

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Haftungsregeln und Innovation

Czarnitzki, Dirk; Kraft, Kornelius - 2000

This paper discusses the incentives for innovation when liability is limited or not. Clearly innovative activity involves risk. On the one hand, the risk of firm owners is limited if their liability is limited. On the other hand credits will be more difficult to receive if liability is limited....

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What are the Channels for Technology Sourcing? Panel Data Evidence from German Companies

Harhoff, Dietmar - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

Innovation processes within corporations increasingly tap into international technology sources, yet little is known about the relative contribution of different types of innovation channels. We investigate the effectiveness of different types of international technology sourcing activities...

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Everything you Always Wanted to Know About Inventors (But Never Asked): Evidence from the PatVal-EU Survey

Harhoff, Dietmar; Hoisl, Karin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006

Based on a survey of the inventors of 9,017 European patented inventions, this paper provides new information about the characteristics of European inventors, the sources of their knowledge, the importance of formal and informal collaborations, the motivations to invent, and the actual use and...

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The Effects of Entrepreneurship Education

Weber, Richard; Graevenitz, Georg von; Harhoff, Dietmar - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

Entrepreneurship education ranks highly on policy agendas in Europe and the US, but little research is available to assess its impacts. In this context it is of primary importance to understand whether entrepreneurship education raises intentions to be entrepreneurial generally or whether it...

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The power of individual-level drivers of inventive performance

Zwick, Thomas; Frosch, Katharina; Hoisl, Karin; … - 2015

Based on an established theoretical framework of the drivers of inventive performance, the so-called KSAO (Knowledge, Skills, Abilities, and Other) factors, this paper seeks to explain empirically the performance of inventors throughout their careers. We combine survey information spanning the...

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