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Host Country Contingencies on Knowledge Protection Strategies of Multinational Firms: Bring a Knife to a Gunfight?
Sofka, Wolfgang; Shehu, Edlira - 2009
International knowledge spillovers, especially through multinational companies (MNCs), have recently been a major topic of the academic and management discussion. However, most studies treat MNC subsidiaries as relatively passive actors without clear knowledge protection strategies. The goal of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010298720
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The effect of institutional ownership on firm innovation: Evidence from Chinese listed firms
Rong, Zhao; Wu, Xiaokai; Boeing, Philipp - 2017
Chinese listed firms' patenting between 2002 and 2011, we find that the presence of institutional investors enhances firm … innovation. Consistent with the monitoring view, we further find that (1) the effect of institutional investors on firm patenting …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011592293
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Does the mobility of R&D labor increase innovation?
Kaiser, Ulrich; Kongsted, Hans Christian; Rønde, Thomas - 2014
We investigate the effect of mobility of R&D workers on the total patenting activity of their employers. Our study … documents how mobile workers affect the patenting activity of the firm they join and the firm they leave. The effect of labor … former employer's patenting from workers who have left for another patent-active firm. Summing up the effects of joining and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010457063
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Host Country Contingencies on Knowledge Protection Strategies of Multinational Firms: Bring a Knife to a Gunfight?
Sofka, Wolfgang; Shehu, Edlira - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2009
International knowledge spillovers, especially through multinational companies (MNCs), have recently been a major topic of the academic and management discussion. However, most studies treat MNC subsidiaries as relatively passive actors without clear knowledge protection strategies. The goal of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005097889
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Formal and Strategic Appropriability Strategies of Multinational Firms: A Cross Country Comparison
Faria, Pedro; Sofka, Wolfgang - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2008
International knowledge spillovers, especially through multinational companies (MNCs), have recently been a major topic of discussion among academics and practitioners. Most research in this field focuses on knowledge sharing activities of MNC subsidiaries. Relatively little is known about their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005098370
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Does the mobility of R&D labor increase innovation?
Kaiser, Ulrich; Kongsted, Hans Christian; Rønde, Thomas - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2014
We investigate the effect of mobility of R&D workers on the total patenting activity of their employers. Our study … documents how mobile workers affect the patenting activity of the firm they join and the firm they leave. The effect of labor … former employer's patenting from workers who have left for another patent-active firm. Summing up the effects of joining and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011104995
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More bits - more bucks? Measuring the impact of broadband internet on firm performance
Bertschek, Irene; Cerquera, Daniel; Klein, Gordon J. - 2011
The paper provides empirical evidence for the causal impact of broadband Internet on the economic performance of German firms. Performance is measured in terms of labour productivity and realised process and product innovations. The analysis refers to the early phase of DSL expansion in Germany...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010304731
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Competition and trust: Evidence from German car manufacturers
Felli, Leonardo; Koenen, Johannes; Stahl, Konrad O. - 2011
We explore the determinants and effects of trust relationships between upstream suppliers and downstream producers. Using unique survey data on individual supplier-buyer relationships in the German automotive industry, we show, by means of different measures of supplier-buyer trust, that higher...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010307845
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The impact of administrative transaction costs in the EU emissions trading system
Heindl, Peter - 2015
This paper empirically investigates the impact of transaction costs for monitoring, reporting, and verification (MRV) of emissions on companies regulated by the EU Emissions Trading System (EU ETS) in Germany. Based on a unique panel dataset, we investigate if MRV costs are dependent on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011382265
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ICT and global sourcing: Evidence for German manufacturing and service firms
Rasel, Fabienne - 2015
This paper analyses the relevance of information and communication technologies (ICT) for firms' probability of global sourcing of inputs. Using firm-level data from Germany in 2009, which include mainly small and medium-sized firms, the empirical analysis differentiates between manufacturing...
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