double-comparative design which looks at two immigrant groups (Turks and Moroccans) and a comparison group of natives from …

This paper re-visits the state of decentralised banking in Germany, Spain and the UK. The cross-country comparison we … Germany. Our comparison has identified three factors of success contributing to the persistence of decentralised banking: I …

Hidden Champions (HCs) are small- and medium-sized global market leaders that repeatedly show superior innovation … transformation than non-HCs firms. To test this hypothesis, I use data from the Mannheim Innovation Panel. This allows me to identify …

product development process. HCs do not invest more into innovation, but achieve higher innovation success. The higher …

Skills shortage has become a key policy issue in highly developed and innovation-oriented economies, with non …-negligible consequences on firms' innovation activities. We investigate the effect of skills shortage on firms' innovation openness, which is … considered to be one of the key drivers of innovation performance. We hypothesize that scarcity of personnel causes firms to …