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Prior knowledge and entrepreneurial innovative success
Cantner, Uwe; Goethner, Maximilian; Meder, Andreas - 2007
This paper is concerned with the relationship between innovative success of entrepreneurs and their prior knowledge at the stage of firm formation. We distinguish between different kinds of experience an entrepreneur can possess and find evidence that the innovative success subsequent to firm...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010263810
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Functional chains of knowledge management: effects on firms' innovative performance
Cantner, Uwe; Joel, Kristin - 2007
The aim of this paper is to investigate the role of Knowledge Management (KM) for the innovation success of firms. It is assumed that the functional chains of KM lead directly and indirectly to more innovative success via enhancing the recombination of internal and external knowledge assets. To...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010263833
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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 applying knowledge management with twin firms with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010266686
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Success in pharmaceutical research: The changing role of scale and scope economies, spillovers and competition
Plotnikova, Tatiana - 2010
This paper investigates the determinants of success in the development of new drugs. In specific, it explores the factors of success in drug development programs at different stages of innovation process. We use economies of scale, scope, R&D competition and technological spillovers as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010270028
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Disentangling the effects of new venture team functional heterogeneity on new venture performance
Cantner, Uwe; Goethner, Maximilian; Stuetzer, Michael - 2010
Previous research on entrepreneurial teams has failed to settle the controversy over whether team heterogeneity helps or hinders new venture performance. Reconciling this inconsistency, this paper suggests a new conceptual approach to disentangle differential effects of team heterogeneity by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271192
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Heritage and firm survival: an analysis of German automobile spinoffs 1886-1939
von Rhein, Kristina - 2008
The theory predicts that spino s of successful parents are more successful than others. The success of the parents can be measured in two ways, either in terms of their survival duration or concerning their innovative activity. In this paper, the survival chances of spino s in the German...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276368
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Self-employment after socialism: Intergenerational links, entrepreneurial values, and human capital
Fritsch, Michael; Rusakova, Alina - 2012
Drawing on representative household data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we examine the role of an early precursor of entrepreneurial development - parental role models - for the individual decision to become self-employed in the post-unified Germany. The findings suggest that the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291817
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The long persistence of regional entrepreneurship culture: Germany 1925 - 2005
Fritsch, Michael; Wyrwich, Michael - 2012
and drastic changes in the politic-economic environment. We thus conclude that regional entrepreneurship cultures do exist …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291827
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How much of a socialist legacy? The reemergence of entrepreneurship in the East German transformation to a market economy
Fritsch, Michael; Bublitz, Elisabeth; Rusakova, Alina; … - 2012
The 40 years of socialist regime in East Germany were characterized by a massive anti-entrepreneurship policy. We … investigate the reemergence of entrepreneurship in East Germany during its transformation to a market economy following the … market economy, suggesting the existence of a long-lasting regional entrepreneurship culture. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291841
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Drivers of self-employment: A multivariate decomposition analysis for the case of Germany
Fritsch, Michael; Kritikos, Alexander; Sorgner, Alina - 2013
for the East German recovery of entrepreneurship after 40 years of socialist regime. We find different results for self … particular increase of solo-entrepreneurship. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291851