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Are firms withdrawing from basic research? : an analysis of firm-level publication behaviour in Germany

Krieger, Bastian; Pellens, Maikel; Blind, Knut; … - 2020

Previous research has expressed concerns about firms engaging less in basic research. We contribute to this debate by studying trends in the scientific publishing activities of firms located in Germany. Our results do not confirm a declining trend in raw numbers with numbers indicating that...

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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...

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The interplay between product innovation, publishing, patenting and developing standards

Blind, Knut; Krieger, Bastian; Pellens, Maikel - 2022 - This version: May 2020

. While the individual effects of engaging in the listed practices on firm innovation are well-understood, the existing … sample of innovation-active firms from the German Community Innovation Survey, which includes information on the development … of standards, enhanced with information on firms' engagement in patenting and publishing. We find that 26% of innovation …

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Special issue: Innovation and regulation

Blind, Knut (contributor) - 2007

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The efficacy of tournaments for non-routine team tasks

Englmaier, Florian; Grimm, Stefan; Grothe, Dominik; … - 2023

Tournaments are often used to improve performance in innovation contexts. Tournaments provide monetary incentives but …

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The impact of the EU General Data Protection Regulation on innovation in firms

Blind, Knut; Niebel, Crispin Miles; Rammer, Christian - 2022

consensus on whether this new privacy regulation is beneficial or detrimental to innovation. This study provides empirical … evidence on the impact of the GDPR on innovation activities in firms. Exploiting panel data from the German innovation survey …, a difference-in-difference analysis shows that the GDPR stimulated additional innovation activity while shifting the …

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Microfinance loan officers before and during Covid-19 : evidence from India

Czura, Kristina; Englmaier, Florian; Ho, Hoa; Spantig, Lisa - 2022

The Microfinance industry has been severely affected by Covid-19. We provide detailed insights into how loan officers, the key personnel linking the lender to its borrowers, are affected in their performance and adapt their work to the pandemic. We use administrative records of an Indian...

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Mapping the dynamics of management styles : evidence from German survey data

Englmaier, Florian; Hofmann, Michael; Wolter, Stefanie - 2023

We study how firms adjust the bundles of management practices they adopt over time, using repeated survey data collected in Germany from 2012 to 2018. By employing unsupervised machine learning, we leverage high-dimensional data on human resource policies to describe clusters of management...

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