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We investigate the effect of profit-sharing on product and process innovation. Profit-sharing is a credible commitment … that the introduction of profit-sharing only spurs product innovation …
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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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product development process. HCs do not invest more into innovation, but achieve higher innovation success. The higher …
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at the intensive margin, i.e. our results do not suggest that non-innovative companies are deterred from innovation …
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affect investments in innovation projects as such projects are typically characterized by a high degree of uncertainty …, complexity and specificity. Financing innovation externally is thus likely to be more costly compared to financing of other … investment. Hence, internal sources of financing are crucial for the implementation of innovation projects. However, internal …
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how knowledge management influences the innovation performance of a firm. While former studies mainly focused on knowledge … techniques on product and process innovation. More specifically, if a firm wants to reduce costs, it is more valuable to invest … important for a firm to carefully select the techniques of knowledge management depending on the goals in its innovation …
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distributed globally. Firms' innovation activities which are carried out abroad comprise either the localization of uniform … paper is to show how internal firm capabilities as well as external forces from the firm’s business and national innovation … environment impact on the firm's decision to carry out different innovation activities abroad. The analysis is based on around …
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product innovation is stronger when firms provided feedback at the interim stages. In contrast, whether and how firms set … milestones was not associated with the likelihood of product innovation. The marginal effect of feedback was larger for new …-to-market product innovation than for new-tofirm product innovation, and the feedback from non-R&D organizations within the firm in the …
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Knowledge spillovers to competitors are regarded as an important aspect of the innovation process. While a company …
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innovation, i.e. weakly controlled managers show a higher innovation propensity. However, the higher the leverage the more …
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