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Buyer power and suppliers' incentives to innovate

Köhler, Christian; Rammer, Christian - 2012

Buyer power is widely considered to decrease innovation incentives of suppliers. However, there is little empirical … evidence for this statement. Our paper analyses how buyer power influences innovation incentives of upstream firms while taking … suppliers’ R&D intensity if the powerful buyer operates under strong technology competition. -- Innovation ; Buyer Power …

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Classifying technology policy from an evolutionary perspective

Cantner, Uwe; Pyka, Andreas - 1999

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Active owners and the failure of newly adopted works councils

Jirjahn, Uwe; Mohrenweiser, Jens - 2013

Using representative data from the IAB Establishment Panel, we show that employees in establishments with active owners are less likely to introduce a works council. Moreover, we show that, in case of an introduction, the new works council is less likely to survive if active owners are present....

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Carbon management : evidence from case studies of German firms under the EU ETS

Heindl, Peter; Lutz, Benjamin Johannes - 2012

This paper examines the management practices of German firms with obligations under the EU Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS) based on six structured in-depth interviews with managers of firms from different industries and based on survey data. The paper sheds light on management and trading...

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Cartel detection in procurement markets

Hüschelrath, Kai; Veith, Tobias - 2011

Cartel detection is usually viewed as a key task of either competition authorities or compliance officials in firms with an elevated risk of cartelization. We argue that customers of hard core cartels can have both incentives and possibilities to detect such agreements on their own initiative...

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Strategic complementarities between different types of ICT-expenditures

Kaiser, Ulrich - 2003

Multivariate Tobit models are estimated using German cross-sectional data to test whether strategic complementarities exist between expenditures in four different types of ICT-components. If two ICT-components are complements, they are correlated (provided that agents act rationally)....

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Knowing that you matter, matters! : the interplay of meaning, monetary incentives, and worker recognition

Kosfeld, Michael; Neckermann, Susanne; Yang, Xiaolan - 2014

We manipulate workers’ perceived meaning of a job in a field experiment. Half of the workers are informed that their job is important, the other half are told that their job is of no relevance. Results show that workers exert more effort when meaning is high, corroborating previous findings on...

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Dips and floors in workplace training : using personnel records to estimate gender differences

Fitzenberger, Bernd; Mühler, Grit - 2011

Using personnel records from a single large German firm in the financial industry, this paper provides detailed evidence on the effect of age and the supervisor's gender on gender differences in workplace training, holding constant various workplace characteristics. We implement an age-specific...

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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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Does codetermination affect the composition of variable versus fixed parts of executive compensation?

Dyballa, Katharina; Kraft, Kornelius - 2015

Contrary to previous literature we hypothesize that interests of labor may well – like that of shareholders – aim at securing the long-run survival of the firm. Consequently, employee representatives on the supervisory board could well have an interest in increasing incentive-based...

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