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productivity but the combination of IT and decentralization does not yield a productivity premium. Contrarily, for the sample of … larger firms, the results show that the productivity of IT depends positively on decentralization. The findings suggest that …
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Using a unique German firm-level data set, we provide empirical evidence for a productivity sorting along two …
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linkages between the firm's R&D investment, product and process innovations, and future productivity and profits. The dynamic …&D investment. For the median productivity firm, investment in R&D raises firm value by 3.0 percent in a group of hightech … significantly affect R&D investment rates and productivity changes in the high-tech industries. …
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governance and market discipline on productivity growth. We find that firms under concentrated ownership tend to show … significantly higher productivity growth. Financial pressure from creditors influences productivity growth positively, particularly … for firms in financial distress. Regarding market discipline, productivity grows faster when competition on product …
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assets are conducive to firm-level productivity. Our study contributes to the literature by simultaneously comparing … productivity effects of innovative capital, human capital, branding capital and organizational capital and testing whether … econometric estimates confirm strong positive productivity effects of human capital and branding capital. Results for innovative …
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a Melitz (2003) type productivity term to differentiate firms by the extent of exposure to the demand shock. The idea is … that the effects of the demand shock should be driven by differences in firm-level productivity from the period before the … initial establishment productivity with employment changes over a long panel from 1995 to 2009. The estimates show that the …
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level of R&D. We analyze whether different R&D activities show a positive influence on total factor productivity (TFP) for …
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This study investigates productivity effects to firms introducing new environmental technologies. The literature on … within-firm organisational change and productivity suggests that firms can get higher productivity effects from adopting new … productivity. The simultaneous implementation of organisational innovations, however, increases the returns to the adoption of …
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The literature on within-firm organizational change and productivity suggests that firms can make more efficient use of … technologies and that joint adoption leads to higher productivity. Without having introduced complementary organizational … innovations, the adoption of CO2 reducing technologies is associated with lower productivity. …
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This paper examines how productivity effects of human capital and innovation vary at different points of the … conditional productivity distribution. Our analysis draws upon two large unbalanced panels of 6,634 enterprises in Germany and 14 … performance distributions are more dispersed. In both countries, we observe non-linearities in the productivity effects of …
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