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Export and innovation activities in the German service sector : empirical evidence at the firm level
Ebling, Günther; Janz, Norbert Helmut - 1999
In this paper we analyse the relationship between export and innovation activities of German service sector companies … Schumpeterian hypothesis of export activities being mainly driven by innovation activities. Factor endowment theories are only … partially supported. While human capital significantly improves export performance, labour costs hamper it only in selected …
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The contribution of different public innovation funding programs to SMEs' export performance
Liu, Rebecca; Rammer, Christian - 2016
This paper studies the effects of different public innovation funding programs on the innovation output and export … contributes to higher innovation outputs, which in turn translates into higher export success in later years. This relation … a significant positive effect on SMEs' export performance. For funding programs run by regional authorities, we find …
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Firm R&D investment and export market exposure
Peters, Bettina; Roberts, Mark J.; Vuong, Van Anh - 2018
export market sales. As a result, exporting firms have a higher payoff from R&D investment, invest in R&D more frequently … differ in their export market exposure. Simulating the introduction of trade tariffs we find a substantial reduction in firms …
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Can online platforms promote women-led exporting firms?
Poole, Jennifer P.; Volpe Martincus, Christian - 2023
ConnectAmericas, a free and purely informational online platform, and detailed firm-level export data of a developing country over a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014536728
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Small firm innovation performance and employee involvement
Andries, Petra; Czarnitzki, Dirk - 2012
It is known that small firms rely mainly on the CEO’s individual knowledge for developing innovations. Recent work suggests that this approach is inefficient since it underutilizes other employees’ knowledge. We study to which extent using CEOs, managers and non-managerial employees’ ideas...
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The workforce composition of young firms and product innovation : complementarities in the skills of founders and their early employees
Müller, Bettina; Murmann, Martin - 2016
We investigate the extent to which complementarities between technical and business skills of founders and employees matter for the generation of market novelties by new ventures. Using data about German start-ups, we find that there are no complementarities between technical and business skills...
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On the mechanics of firm growth
Luttmer, Erzo Gerrit Jan (contributor) - 2008
Given a common technology for replicating blueprints, high-quality blueprints will be replicated more quickly than low-quality blueprints. If quality begets quality, and firms are identified with collections of blueprints derived from the same initial blueprint, then, along a balanced growth...
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Employee representation legislations and innovation
Belloc, Filippo - 2016
We analyse how countries' innovation outcomes are affected by national legislations of worker participation to corporate governance. We develop a model of employee representation laws (ERL) and innovation in the presence of incomplete labour contracts and predict heterogeneous ERL effects across...
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Organizational drivers of innovation : the role of workforce agility
Franco, Chiara; Landini, Fabio - 2020
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Ethnic networks and U.S. exports
Bandyopadhyay, Subhayu (contributor);  … - 2005 - rev.
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