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Review of the Literature on the Impact of Mergers on Innovation
Schulz, Norbert - 2007
Both M&A and innovation are instruments for growth and competitive advantage. Therefore they are fundamental to each … unfortunate as both processes - the process of innovation and the process of mergers and acquisitions - are intimately connected …. The impact of mergers on innovation can only be rigorously assessed, if the converse direction of influence - mergers …
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Enterprise systems and innovations
Engelstätter, Benjamin - 2009
also show a positive impact on process innovation intensity. These results do not only emerge for the short-run of two …
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Enterprise software and service innovation: Standardization versus customization
Engelstätter, Benjamin; Sarbu, Miruna - 2010
This paper analyzes the relationship between service innovation and different types of enterprise software systems, i … Germany, this is the first paper empirically analyzing whether both types of enterprise software foster innovation in the … between sector specific enterprise software and innovation activity while customized enterprise software is possibly related …
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Enterprise systems and innovations
Engelstätter, Benjamin - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2009
also show a positive impact on process innovation intensity. These results do not only emerge for the short-run of two …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008474662
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Existenzgründungen: Ein Weg zur Beschäftigungsförderung?
Pfeiffer, Friedhelm - 2005
In dem vorliegenden Artikel werden ausgewählte theoretische und empirische Aspekte des Zusammenhangs zwischen Existenzgründungen, staatlichem Handeln und Beschäftigung diskutiert. Dabei wird die Frage, ob Existenzgründungen zusätzliche Beschäftigung schaffen überwiegend aus einer...
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Selbständigkeit in Europa 1991 - 2003: Empirische Evidenz mit Länderdaten
Göggel, Kathrin; Gräb, Johannes; Pfeiffer, Friedhelm - 2006
In dieser Studie werden ausgewählte makroökonomische Determinanten der Anzahl der Selbständigen in fünfzehn Ländern Europas untersucht. Datenbasis sind die Arbeitskräfteerhebungen der Europäischen Union für die Jahre 1991 ? 2003. Ausgangspunkt der Studie ist der Rückgang der Anzahl der...
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Understanding the competitiveness implications of future phases of EU ETS on the industrial sectors
Oberndorfer, Ulrich; Alexeeva-Talebi, Victoria; … - 2010
In making key decisions for the future phases of the European Union Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS), policy makers need to fully understand the competitiveness implications of these decisions on industrial sectors. In this paper, we conduct an empirical analysis of cost pass-through ability of...
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Who should pay for certification?
Stahl, Konrad; Strausz, Roland - 2011
Who does, and who should initiate costly certification by a third party under asymmetric quality information, the buyer or the seller? Our answer - the seller - follows from a nontrivial analysis revealing a clear intuition. Buyer-induced certification acts as an inspection device,...
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Hotel rankings of online travel agents, channel pricing, and consumer protection
Hunold, Matthias; Kesler, Reinhold; Laitenberger, Ulrich - 2018
We investigate whether online travel agents (OTAs) assign hotels worse positions in their search results if these set lower hotel prices at other OTAs or on their own websites. We formally characterize how an OTA can use such a strategy to reduce price differentiation across distribution...
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Evaluation of best price clauses in hotel booking
Hunold, Matthias; Kesler, Reinhold; Laitenberger, Ulrich; … - 2017
We analyze the best price clauses (BPCs) of online travel agents (OTAs) using meta-search price data of more than 45,000 hotels in different countries. Although OTAs apparently have not changed their standard commission rates following the partial ban of BPCs in Europe, we find that BPCs do...
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