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Technology Use, Organisational Flexibility and Innovation: Evidence for Germany

Hempell, Thomas; Zwick, Thomas - 2005

activities by facilitating more flexible organisational structures in firms. We distinguish between functional flexibility (the … ability of workers to co-operate and take decentralised decisions) and numerical flexibility (the reduction of fixed costs …, mainly due to outsourcing business processes). Our results from a large and representative data set of firms in Germany show …

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Map Intersection Based Merging Schemes for Administrative Data Sources and an Application to Germany

Arntz, Melanie; Wilke, Ralf A. - 2005

In many situations the applied researcher wants to combine different data sources without knowing the exact link and merging rule. This paper introduces a theoretical framework how two different regional administrative data sources can be merged. It presents different merging schemes based on...

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Empirical determinants of employee resistance against innovations

Zwick, Thomas - 2000

Employee resistance against innovations is a virulent phenomenon and there is a broad theoretical literature on its determinants. The empirical evidence is scarce, however, and mainly provides descriptive evidence on the incidence of the phenomenon and concentrates on the effectiveness of change...

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Resource allocation flexibility for innovation performance: The effects of breadth, uncertainty, and selectiveness

Klingebiel, Ronald; Rammer, Christian - 2011

's disadvantages, a combination that provides flexibility in resource allocation. …

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Auswirkungen von Erbschaften und Schenkungen auf die Vermögensbildung privater Personen und Haushalte: Eine ökonometrische Analyse auf der Basis des Sozio-oekonomischen Panels

Westerheide, Peter - 2004

Die Untersuchung analysiert das Sparverhalten der über 30- bis unter 50jährigen Personen bzw. Haushalte mit Haushaltsvorständen in dieser Altersgruppe in Reaktion auf erhaltene Erbschaften bzw. Transfers zu Lebzeiten. Zugrunde liegen aktuelle Daten des Sozio-oekonomischen Panels. Mittels...

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Payout Policy and Owners? Interests: Evidence from German Savings Banks

Kleff, Volker; Weber, Martin - 2005

The savings banks? decision to distribute profits among their public owners is strongly regulated by law in order to guarantee their adequate funding via retained profits. However, the legal scope is reluctantly exhausted. In this study we examine the determinants of the savings banks? payout...

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Capital policy of German savings banks: a survey

Kleff, Volker - 2005

In contrast to earlier field studies, we survey German public savings banks on their management of capital. We find that the most important determinants of the savings banks? target capital ratio are risk aversion, the desired credit growth and profitability. Savings banks prefer to manage the...

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Wage rigidities in Western Germany? Microeconometric evidence from the 1990s

Puhani, Patrick A. - 2001

This paper investigates whether and in what sense the west German wage structure has been ?rigid? in the 1990s. To test the hypothesis that a rigid wage structure has been responsible for rising low-skilled unemployment, I propose a methodology which makes less restrictive identifying...

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Forecasting economic activity in Germany: how useful are sentiment indicators?

Schröder, Michael; Hüfner, Felix P. - 2002

We analyze four economic sentiment indicators for the German economy regarding their ability to forecast economic activity. Using cross correlations and Granger causality tests we find that the ifo business expectations (ifo), the Purchasing Managers Index (PMI) and the ZEW Indicator of Economic...

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Exports and Profitability: First Evidence for German Manufacturing Firms

Fryges, Helmut; Wagner, Joachim - 2008

Germany, this paper presents the first comprehensive evidence on the relationship between exports and profitability. It …

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