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Welcome on board? Appointment dynamics of women as directors

Schoonjans, Eline; Hottenrott, Hanna; Buchwald, Achim - 2023

Increasing the participation of women in top-level corporate boards is high on the agenda of policymakers. Yet, we know little about director appointment dynamics and the drivers and impediments of women appointments. This study builds on organizational and group-level behavior theories and...

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How do managers form their expectations about working from home? Survey experiments on the perception of productivity

Erdsiek, Daniel; Rost, Vincent - 2023

The recent shift towards working from home (WFH) has far-reaching implications for social and economic outcomes. While firms are gatekeepers for the ongoing diffusion of flexible work arrangements, there is little evidence on how firms decide to offer WFH. We leverage two survey experiments...

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Backwards integration and strategic delegation

Hunold, Matthias; Röller, Lars-Hendrik; Stahl, Konrad - 2012

We analyze the effects of downstream firms' acquisition of pure cash flow rights in an efficient upstream supplier when all firms compete in prices. With an acquisition, downstream firms internalize the effects of their actions on their rivals' sales. Double marginalization is enhanced. Whereas...

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Minimum wages and competition: The case of the German roofing sector

Kraft, Kornelius; Rammer, Christian; Gottschalk, Sandra - 2012

wages. As a control industry we take the plumbing sector, which shows a similar market structure and demand trend but is not … estimate the impacts of minimum wages on market entries and exits and firms' profitability. We find significant effects for … East Germany which point to a substantial shift in industry structure. Minimum wages decreased both market entries and …

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Innovationen, Anlageinvestitionen und immaterielle Investitionen

Rammer, Christian; Köhler, Christian - 2012

Dieser Beitrag untersucht die Beziehung verschiedener Konzepte von investiven Ausgaben in Unternehmen, ihre Verbindung zu Innovationen und die Faktoren, die Innovations- und Investitionsentscheidungen von Unternehmen beeinflussen. Neben dem traditionellen Investitionsbegriff, der sich...

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Mass customization with additive manufacturing: Blessing or curse for society?

Schwierzy, Julian; Wenzel, Tobias - 2024

product prices. In contrast, the price of customized products will exceed the price level of the initial market. These price …

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Knowledge Flows and R&D Co-operation: Firm-level Evidence from Germany

Schmidt, Tobias - 2005

This paper analyzes the determinants of R&D co-operation among German manufacturing firms. Using firm level data from the Third Community Innovation Survey from Germany, we focus on the role of spillovers in explaining R&D cooperation. We also investigate firms? decisions to cooperate with...

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Technology Use, Organisational Flexibility and Innovation: Evidence for Germany

Hempell, Thomas; Zwick, Thomas - 2005

This paper investigates to what extent the usage of information and communication technology (ICT) fosters innovation activities by facilitating more flexible organisational structures in firms. We distinguish between functional flexibility (the ability of workers to co-operate and take...

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Knowledge Flows and R&D Co-operation: Firm-level Evidence from Germany

Schmidt, Tobias - 2005

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Detecting Behavioural Additionality: An Empirical Study on the Impact of Public R&D Funding on Firms' Cooperative Behaviour in Germany

Fier, Andreas; Aschhoff, Birgit; Löhlein, Heide - 2006

Subsidising research networks has become a popular instrument in technology policies, driven mainly by expected positive spillovers. In particular, the stimulation of R&D co-operation between scientific institutions and industry is considered as most promising. In the context of policy...

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