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The effects of knowledge management on innovative success : an empirical analysis of German firms

Cantner, Uwe; Joel, Kristin; Schmidt, Tobias - 2009

The aim of this paper is to analyse the effects of knowledge management on the innovation success of firms in Germany …. Using a matching procedure on data from the German Innovation Survey of 2003 (“Mannheim Innovation Panel”), we pair firms … management on the share of cost reductions with process innovation. -- knowledge management ; innovation ; matching estimator …

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Determinants influencing the choice of a cooperation partner

Cantner, Uwe; Meder, Andreas - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006

This paper provides empirical tests of hypotheses of cooperative behavior provided by evolutionary approaches in the resource-based view of the firm. The influences of "technological proximity", individual incentives to cooperate and managerial tools to the choice of research partner are...

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Firm-specific productivity risk over the business cycle : facts and aggregate implications

Bachmann, Ruediger; Bayer, Christian - 2009

Is time-varying firm-level uncertainty a major cause or amplifier of the business cycle? This paper investigates this question in the context of a heterogeneousfirm RBC model with persistent firm-level productivity shocks and lumpy capital adjustment, where cyclical changes in uncertainty...

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The cross-section of firms over the business cycle : new facts and a DSGE exploration

Bachmann, Ruediger; Bayer, Christian - 2009

Using a unique German firm-level data set, this paper is the first to jointly study the cyclical properties of the cross-sections of firm-level real value added and Solow residual innovations, as well as capital and employment adjustment. We find two new business cycle facts: 1) The...

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Knowledge and Creative Destruction over the Industry Life Cycle - The Case of the German Automobile Industry

Cantner, Uwe; Dreßler, Kristina; Krüger, Jens J. - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005

This paper investigates how the survival of firms over the industry life cycle is affected by different kinds of knowledge, namely post-entry experience, pre-entry experience, and knowledge acquired by innovative activity. Therefore, a statistical survival analysis is performed for the German...

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Knowledge Compensation in the German Automobile Industry

Cantner, Uwe; Dreßler, Kristina; Krüger, Jens J. - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005

Knowledge is one of the most important determinants in single-industry studies of firm survival over the life cycle. Different kinds of knowledge, namely post-entry experience, pre-entry experience, and knowledge acquired by innovative activity positively influence the survival chances of firms....

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Innovation races: An experimental study on strategic research activities

Cantner, Uwe; Nicklisch, Andreas; Weiland, Torsten - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005

ensuing innovation race, firms interact through information spillovers resulting from the imperfect appropriability of … behavioural regularities of agents who are engaged in innovation activities. As a key element we test to what extend relative … economic performance exercises a stimulating effect on the implementation of innovation and imitation strategies. …

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Competition in Innovation and Imitation - A Theoretical and Experimental Study -

Cantner, Uwe; Güth, Werner; Nicklisch, Andreas; … - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2004

For given product specifications by two competing firms the demand levels are determined by a randomly generated ideal composition of aspects. Firms can vary some or all aspects of these products, based on information about own (and other's) previous demand. Although the product space is much...

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