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Small Firm Innovation Performance and Employee Involvement
Andries, Petra - 2013
CEOs, managers and non-managerial employees' ideas enhances small firms' innovation performance. A Heckman selection model … innovation performance. However, contributions depend heavily on the individuals' area of expertise and on whether product or … process innovation is desired. Our findings enrich the current view on the entrepreneurial team, but also warn against the …
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Fishing for Complementarities : Competitive Research Funding and Research Productivity
Hottenrott, Hanna - 2014
This paper empirically investigates complementarities between different sources of research funding with regard to academic publishing. We find for a sample of UK engineering academics that competitive funding is associated with an increase in ex-post publications but that industry funding...
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The Link between Firms' Innovation Decision and the Business Cycle : An Empirical Analysis
Heger, Diana - 2018
The sensitivity of innovation activities with respect to the business cycle is often assumed to be small. In this paper … the hypothesis on cyclical dependence of innovation activities is tested for firms in the German manufacturing, and … additionally for SMEs. To this end firms' innovation decisions are considered. The decision to innovate in one period is modelled …
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Defensive Innovations
Koeniger, Winfried - 2002
Defensive innovations in developed countries can explain the empirical phenomenon that openness towards trade with less-developed countries does not necessarily induce a substantial increase in the wage differential and trade volumes. Building on step-by-step innovations as introduced by Aghion...
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An empirical model of growth through product innovation
Lentz, Rasmus; Mortensen, Dale T. - 2005
through innovation that explains these facts. The model is a modified version of the Schumpeterian theory of firm evolution …
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Innovation, Competition and Incentives for R&D
Woerter, Martin - 2013
This paper analyses the relationship between past innovation output, competition, and future innovation input in a … results for both countries. Innovation output in t-1 as measured by the sales share of innovative products is positively …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013094541
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Reference dependent preferences and the impact of wage increases on job satisfaction: theory and evidence
Grund, Christian; Sliwka, Dirk - 2005
The impact of wage increases on job satisfaction is explored theoretically and empirically. To do this, we apply a utility function that rises with the absolute wage level as well as with wage increases. It is shown that when employees can influence their wages by exerting effort, myopic utility...
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The nexus between labor diversity and firm's innovation
Parrotta, Pierpaolo; Pozzoli, Dario; Pytlikova, Mariola - 2012
In this paper we investigate the nexus between firm labor diversity and innovation using a linked employer … and demographic characteristics to valuable firm's innovation activity. The latter is measured by: (1) the firm … firm's innovation outcomes. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010289952
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Managerial Ownership, Entrenchment and Innovation
Czarnitzki, Dirk - 2014
as reduced remuneration and job loss. However, managers might over-invest into innovation for reasons of growth implying … their own interests. When entrenched, managers do not fear detrimental effects of risky innovation projects on their career …, and hence tend to over-invest into innovation …
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The Influence of International Dispersed vs. Home-Based R&D on Innovation Performance
Peters, Bettina - 2014
Recent years have shown a surge of firms globalising their innovation activities in order to gain from international … stronger dispersed international R&D activities hamper or stimulate innovation. Second, we employ two well-established market …-based indicators for innovation (introduction of and sales growth rates due to new products) instead of looking at inventions (patents …
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