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Foreign Competition and Executive Compensation in the Manufacturing Industry – a Comparison between Germany and the U.S

Dyballa, Katharina - 2018

impact of foreign competition on managerial compensation, (2) differences in the impact between Germany and the U.S and (3 … compensation in both countries. The impact of foreign competition on payperformance sensitivity differs between the US and Germany …In this study we use import penetration as a proxy for foreign competition in order to empirically analyze (1) the …

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Does Energy Policy Hurt International Competitiveness of Firms? A Comparative Study for Germany, Switzerland and Austria

Rammer, Christian; Gottschalk, Sandra; Peneder, Michael R. - 2016

debate on potentially negative impacts of cost-increasing energy policies on international competitiveness. We use firm …-level data from three countries with similar industry structure but different energy policies: Germany, Switzerland, and Austria …

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Unmasking the Porter Hypothesis : Environmental Innovations and Firm-Profitability

Rammer, Christian - 2011

) hypothesis that environmental regulation can improve firms' competitiveness we distinguish regulation induced and voluntary … are induced by regulations. However, innovation that increases a firm's material or energy efficiency in terms of material … voluntary innovations, although the effect is significantly larger for regulation-driven innovation. We conclude that the Porter …

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Clean and Productive? Evidence from the German Manufacturing Industry

Böhringer, Christoph; Moslener, Ulf; Oberndorfer, Ulrich; … - 2013

We analyze the productivity effects of environmental (green) investment as well as of environmental expenditures and energy expenditures. For this purpose, we follow a production function approach where we account for these investment and expenditure categories as inputs. Based on a panel...

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Determinants of Environmental Innovations in Germany : Do Organizational Measures Matter?

Ziegler, Andreas; Rennings, Klaus - 2014

realization of an environmental product and a process innovation, indeed only compared with the realization of no environmental … innovation …

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The Impact of Regulation-Driven Environmental Innovation on Innovation Success and Firm Performance

Rennings, Klaus; Rammer, Christian - 2010

-driven environmental innovation may impose additional costs to firms and lower their profits. On the other hand, eco-innovators could … profit from lower uncertainty in innovation due to regulatory standards and demand-generating effects of regulation. In this … paper we analyse (a) whether regulation-driven environmental innovation generate similar innovation success compared to …

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Green Innovations and Organizational Change : Making Better Use of Environmental Technology

Hottenrott, Hanna; Rexhauser, Sascha; Veugelers, Reinhilde - 2014

The literature on within-firm organizational change and productivity suggests that firms can make more efficient use of certain technologies if complementary forms of organization are adopted. This issue may be of even greater importance for the case of greenhouse gas (GHG) abatement...

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The Determinants and Effects of Environmental Product Innovations

Türpitz, Katharina - 2014

The aim of the Integrated Product Policy (IPP) is to promote product-related eco-innovations. These, in turn, depend on both support for the development of environmentally-friendly products and stimulation of demand for such products. However, it is companies that play the crucial role in the...

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Environmental Innovation and Employment Dynamics in Different Technology Fields - An Analysis Based on the German Community Innovation Survey 2009

Horbach, Jens - 2014

analyzing these effects for different environmental innovation fields. We use the 2009 wave of the German part of the Community … Innovation Panel (CIS) allowing for such an analysis at the firm level. The main focus of the paper lies on the analysis of the … adaptation behavior of firms with respect to the relationship of employment and (environmental) innovation. We use an endogenous …

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Skill Composition and Regional Entrepreneurship : A Comparative Study between Germany and Portugal

Grimpe, Christoph; Mendonça, Joana - 2009

relationship for Germany and Portugal. Both countries, though member states of the European Union, are fairly different from each … opposite result for Germany which apparently benefits from higher diversity. Hence, we suggest that both concentration and …

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