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Combining technology and work organization: An analysis of complementarity between IT and decentralization across firms of different size
Rasel, Fabienne - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2014
productivity but the combination of IT and decentralization does not yield a productivity premium. Contrarily, for the sample of … larger firms, the results show that the productivity of IT depends positively on decentralization. The findings suggest that …
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Combining technology and work organization: An analysis of complementarity between IT and decentralization across firms of different size
Rasel, Fabienne - 2014
productivity but the combination of IT and decentralization does not yield a productivity premium. Contrarily, for the sample of … larger firms, the results show that the productivity of IT depends positively on decentralization. The findings suggest that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010420391
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Green innovations and organizational change: Making better use of environmental technology
Hottenrott, Hanna; Rexhäuser, Sascha; Veugelers, Reinhilde - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2012
The literature on within-firm organizational change and productivity suggests that firms can make more efficient use of … technologies and that joint adoption leads to higher productivity. Without having introduced complementary organizational … innovations, the adoption of CO2 reducing technologies is associated with lower productivity. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010985629
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Green innovations and organizational change: Making better use of environmental technology
Hottenrott, Hanna; Rexhäuser, Sascha; Veugelers, Reinhilde - 2012
The literature on within-firm organizational change and productivity suggests that firms can make more efficient use of … technologies and that joint adoption leads to higher productivity. Without having introduced complementary organizational … innovations, the adoption of CO2 reducing technologies is associated with lower productivity. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010309495
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Impacts of ownership changes on emissions and industrial production: Evidence from Europe
Chlond, Bettina; Germeshausen, Robert - 2023
facilities in Europe jointly with their output, productivity, and other key economic outcomes. To disentangle the influence of … and productivity do not change suggesting that reductions in emissions follow proportional reductions in output rather … productivity and profits of other facilities and firms owned by the acquiring parent company after a change in ownership. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014313932
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Dynamic R&D choice and the impact of the firm's financial strength
Peters, Bettina; Roberts, Mark J.; Vuong, Van Anh - 2015
generating innovations from their R&D investment, and the innovations have a larger impact on productivity and profits. Averaging …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011405121
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Kollektive Lohnverhandlungen und Auslandsdirektinvestitionen: eine empirische Studie mit Firmendaten
Peters, Ralf-Henning - 2000
Diese Studie untersucht den Einfluss des Tarifvertragssystems auf die Entscheidung von Unternehmen, im Ausland zu investieren. Ein Lohnverhandlungsmodell zeigt, dass produktive Unternehmen durch Flächentarifverträge im Heimatland begünstigt werden und seltener im Ausland investieren als bei...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297674
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Money for novelty: The role of venture capital investments for innovation in young technology-based firms
Heger, Diana - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2013
This paper examines the role of venture capital on a firm's innovation activities by using a data set of German technology-based firms founded between 1996 and 2005. Innovation is proxied by patent counts and an index of innovativeness which reflects the degree to which a young firm has...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010957632
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Mobile and more productive? Firm-level evidence on the productivity effects of mobile internet use at the early stage of diffusion
Bertschek, Irene; Niebel, Thomas - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2013
employees' use of mobile internet access improves firms' labour productivity. Our data set comprises 2460 German firms and … analysis shows that firms' labour productivity significantly increases with the share of employees with mobile internet access …. However, an instrumental variable approach reveals that mobile internet use does not cause higher labour productivity. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010957699
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Does codetermination affect the composition of variable versus fixed parts of executive compensation?
Dyballa, Katharina; Kraft, Kornelius - 2015
Contrary to previous literature we hypothesize that interests of labor may well - like that of shareholders - aim at securing the long-run survival of the firm. Consequently, employee representatives on the supervisory board could well have an interest in increasing incentive-based compensation...
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