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Modern management : good for the environment or just hot air?
Bloom, Nicholas; Genakos, Christos; Martin, Ralf; … - 2008
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003842040
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Price trends over the product life cycle and the optimal inflation target
Adam, Klaus; Weber, Henning - 2019
We document a new stylized fact for the life-cycle behavior of consumer prices: relative to a narrowly defined set of competing products, the price of individual products tends to fall over the product lifetime. This holds true for more than 90% of the expenditure items underlying the U.K....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012098992
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Does competition raise productivity through improving management quality?
Van Reenen, John - 2010
tougher competition does indeed raise productivity and one of the main mechanisms is through improving management practices … the economics of competition and management, arguing that management should be seen at least in part as a transferable … technology. A range of recent econometric studies suggest that (i) competition increases management quality and (ii) improved …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008772826
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What drives differences in management?
Bloom, Nicholas; Brynjolfsson, Erik; Foster, Lucia; … - 2017
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011629636
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Fast-tracking "green" patent applications : an empirical analysis
Dechezleprêtre, Antoine - 2013
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009745077
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Managerial and financial barriers during the green transition
Haas, Ralph de; Martin, Ralf; Muûls, Mirabelle; … - 2022
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012990528
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Green start-ups and the role of founder personality
Chapman, Gary; Hottenrott, Hanna - 2022
Green start-ups play a vital role in the needed transition towards more environmentally sustainable economies. Yet our understanding of why some founders start green ventures and others do not remains incomplete. We build on the cognitive and decision-making perspectives on start-ups...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013172103
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Environmental innovation and firm profitability : an analysis with respect to firm size
Axenbeck, Janna - 2019
This paper investigates the effect of environmental innovations on firm profitability with respect to differences between small and medium-sized (SME) and large (LE) enterprises. Using data from the Mannheim Innovation Panel (MIP) 2015, results show that, in general, SME benefit more from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012055635
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Assessing the impact of environmental regulation on industrial water use : evidence from Brazil
Féres, José; Reynaud, Arnaud - 2015
This paper aims at characterizing water demand by Brazilian manufacturing plants located in São Paulo and at assessing the potential impacts of environmental policies on industrial water use. We first show that the price elasticity of the water demand, -1.0 on average, is high enough for a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012023821
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Do voluntary environmental programs reduce emissions? : EMAS in the German manufacturing sector
Kube, Roland; Graevenitz, Kathrine von; Löschel, Andreas; … - 2019
Voluntary environmental management programs for firms have become an increasingly popular instrument of environmental … there is a lack of evidence based on a large control group. We seek to fill this gap with an evaluation of the Eco-Management …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011973304