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The power of individual-level drivers of inventive performance

Zwick, Thomas; Frosch, Katharina; Hoisl, Karin; … - 2015

Based on an established theoretical framework of the drivers of inventive performance, the so-called KSAO (Knowledge, Skills, Abilities, and Other) factors, this paper seeks to explain empirically the performance of inventors throughout their careers. We combine survey information spanning the...

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Empirical determinants of employee resistance against innovations

Zwick, Thomas - 2000

representative evidence on the impact of the economic environment on employee opposition against the implementation of an innovation … innovation is an increase in employee performance, the firm experiences higher resistance, while resistance is lower in firms … aiming at increasing the product range by the innovation. Profit and turn over expectations of the firm and the outside …

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New technologies and the demand for medium qualified labour in Germany

Jacobebbinghaus, Peter; Zwick, Thomas - 2001

rich data set. The paper shows that innovation expenditures and investments in information and communication technologies …

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The effect of institutional ownership on firm innovation : evidence from Chinese listed firms

Rong, Zhao; Wu, Xiaokai; Boeing, Philipp - 2017

Monitoring by institutional investors can act as an important mechanism to promote firm innovation. By investigating … innovation. Consistent with the monitoring view, we further find that (1) the effect of institutional investors on firm patenting … robust when innovation quality is examined. …

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The employment impact of cleaner production on the firm level : empirical evidence from a survey in five European countries

Rennings, Klaus; Zwick, Thomas - 2001

This paper analyses the determinants of employment reactions of firms when environmental innovations have been carried out. It differentiates hereby between employment increases and decreases. The data stem from a telephone survey covering more than 1500 firms in five European countries that...

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Separating wheat and chaff: age-specific staffing strategies and innovative performance at the firm level

Frosch, Katharina; Goebel, Christian; Zwick, Thomas - 2011 - This version: June 2011

establishments. Finally, we do not find evidence that a youth-centred human resource strategy (always) fosters innovation …. -- Workforce aging ; staffing strategies ; innovation …

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Technology use, organisational flexibility and innovation : evidence for Germany

Hempell, Thomas (contributor); Zwick, Thomas (contributor) - 2005

This paper investigates to what extent the usage of information and communication technology (ICT) fosters innovation … that ICT use is associated with an increase in both types of flexibility but the implications for innovation activities …

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Employment changes in environmentally innovative firms

Rennings, Klaus; Ziegler, Andreas; Zwick, Thomas - 2001

prone to increase employment, while firms that want to slash costs by innovation and compete by soft factors decrease … employment more frequently. -- Innovation ; labour demand ; discrete choice models …

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Innovations induce asymmetric employment movements

Zwick, Thomas - 1999

This paper provides a labour supply explanation to the observation that in Germany employment changes are asymmetric during the business cycle. Employment increases are slower, because the reservation wage of workers increases in times of job uncertainty. Workers are afraid in those periods of...

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Works councils and the productivity impact of direct employee participation

Zwick, Thomas - 2003

This paper measures the productivity impact of management-led participative establishment practices. On the basis of a representative German establishment data set, the IAB establishment panel, the study finds that the presence of team-work, a reduction of hierarchies and autonomous work groups...

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