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The combination of research and development units following a merger or an acquisition usually requires a broad and widespread integration project to ensure that a company?s innovative capabilities are carried forward into the future. Previous research has shown, however, that the combined...
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Previous literature provided evidence on financing constraints for investment in R&D activities due to capital market imperfections and special features of R&D investments. Moreover, it has been shown that a shift in capital structure towards more debt, results in a reduction of R&D investments....
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-level support for the notion that labor mobility stimulates overall innovation of a country or region due to knowledge transfer. …
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-level support for the notion that labor mobility stimulates overall innovation of a country or region due to knowledge transfer. …
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markets. This study analyses whether a SRI screening process applied to equities results in a different performance outcome … performance effects of SRI screens. The 29 SRI stock indexes are analysed by single-factor models with benchmarks that closely …
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analyse the impact of the proportion of different occupational groups of apprentices on firm performance. We use … firm performance: the companies cover their training costs immediately. In contrast, companies with apprentices in the …
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accuracy are low. To forecast the two innovation-related performance outcomes well, we only need to include a set of variables … startup characteristics to forecast the performance of newly started enterprises over a five years' time horizon. The … performance outcomes we consider are involuntary exit, above{average employment growth, a return on assets of above 20 percent …
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Using data across European corporate boards, we investigate the effects of quota-induced female representation on firm value and operations, under minimal identification assumptions. We consider sharp increases in the share of women on boards that arise due to rounding whenever percentage-based...
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markets. This study analyses whether a SRI screening process applied to equities results in a different performance outcome … performance effects of SRI screens. The 29 SRI stock indexes are analysed by single-factor models with benchmarks that closely …
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