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An experimental investigation into queueing behavior
Conte, Anna; Scarsini, Marco; Sürücü, Oktay - 2014
We conduct an experiment meant to explore the factors driving customers' decisions in a queueing system. Under different time allowance conditions, the experimental subjects are asked to join one of two queues that differ in their length, server speed, and entry fee. We investigate some aspects...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010500157
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An Experimental Investigation into Queueing Behavior
Conte, Anna; Scarsini, Marco; Sürücü, Oktay - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
We conduct an experiment meant to explore the factors driving customers' decisions in a queueing system. Under different time allowance conditions, the experimental subjects are asked to join one of two queues that differ in their length, server speed, and entry fee. We investigate some aspects...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011082351
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Works councils, training activities and innovation: A study of German firms
Cantner, Uwe; Gerstlberger, Wolfgang; Roy, Ipsita - 2014
importance of employee training practices undertaken in firms as an important tool for human resource and knowledge management … establishment data on various aspects of training practices and innovation activities in Germany, the paper examines the degree …, type and extent to which establishments invest in employee training and finds significant differences for firms with and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010369304
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Works Councils, Training Activities and Innovation: A Study of German Firms
Cantner, Uwe; Gerstlberger, Wolfgang; Roy, Ipsita - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
importance of employee training practices undertaken in firms as an important tool for human resource and knowledge management … establishment data on various aspects of training practices and innovation activities in Germany, the paper examines the degree …, type and extent to which establishments invest in employee training and finds significant differences for firms with and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884480
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Effects of entrepreneurship education at universities
Slavtchev, Viktor; Laspita, Stavroula; Patzelt, Holger - 2012
This study analyzes the impact of entrepreneurship education at universities on the intentions of students to become entrepreneurs or self-employed in the short-term (immediately after graduation) and in the long-term (five years after graduation). A difference-in-differences approach is applied...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291811
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Occupational choice and self-employment: Are they related?
Sorgner, Alina; Fritsch, Michael - 2013
Often, a person will become an entrepreneur only after a period of dependent employment, suggesting that occupational choices precede entrepreneurial choices. We investigate the relationship between occupational choice and self-employment. The findings suggest that the occupational choice of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291848
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Stepping forward: Personality traits, choice of profession, and the decision to become self-employed
Fritsch, Michael; Sorgner, Alina - 2013
We argue that entrepreneurial choice proceeds in at least in two steps, with vocational choice nearly always preceding choice of employment status, whether that be self-employment or dependent employment. Since the two decisions are interrelated, analysis of entrepreneurial choice as a single...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291849
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A physician with a soul of a cook? Entrepreneurial personality across occupations
Sorgner, Alina - 2012
There is a debate in the literature backed by ambiguous empirical evidence whether personality is useful at predicting entrepreneurship behavior. However, little is known about the role of the context in the relationship between personality and entrepreneurship. This paper draws on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291855
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Role of human resource practices in absorptive capacity and R&D cooperation
Roy, Ipsita - 2015
While significant attention is given to the concept of absorptive capacity as a source of competitive advantage in firms, a major drawback exists in the way it is unidimensionally defined in micro-level analysis. The paper addresses this limitation and reconceptualizes absorptive capacity as a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011419475
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Knowledge spillovers through FDI and trade: Moderating role of quality-adjusted Human Capital
Ali, Muhammad; Cantner, Uwe; Roy, Ipsita - 2015
The paper extends the findings of Coe and Helpman (1995) model of R&D spillovers by considering foreign direct investment (FDI) as a channel for knowl- edge spillovers in addition to imports. Deeper insights on the issue are provided by examining inter-relationship between knowledge spillovers...
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