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Team heterogeneity in startups and its development over time

Kaiser, Ulrich; Müller, Bettina - 2013

We investigate the workforce heterogeneity of startups with respect to education, age and wages. Our explorative study … holds both for non-knowledge-based and, to a lesser extent, knowledge-based startups. This seems surprising since a vast …). We also document that workforces become more heterogeneous over time - startups add workers with skills different from …

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Moving in and out of financial distress : evidence for newly founded service sector firms

Kaiser, Ulrich - 2001

The determinants of transitions between different states of financial distress are analyzed using two versions of Markov chain models: a multinomial logit model without random effects and a multinomial logit model capturing such unobservable factors. The empirical analysis is based on a panel...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011445915

Gains and pains from contract research : a transaction and firm-level perspective

Grimpe, Christoph (contributor); Kaiser, Ulrich (contributor) - 2008

theory and the resource-based view of the firm. Using a large and comprehensive data set of innovating firms from Germany our …

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The pulse of liability of foreignness : dynamic legitimacy and experiences effects in the German car market

Kaiser, Ulrich (contributor); Sofka, Wolfgang (contributor) - 2006

Globalization has provided many companies with new opportunities for growth and efficiency. This requires them to operate successfully across cultural and social borders. These can be stumbling blocks to internationalization and have been found to cause frequent errors and delays for...

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R&D cooperation and R&D intensity : theory and micro-econometric evidence for german manufacturing industries

Kaiser, Ulrich; Licht, Georg - 1998

This paper develops a three stage oligopoly game for R&D cooperation, R&D expenditure and product market competition. In the first stage, firms decide whether or not to conduct R&D in cooperation with other firms. In the second stage the level of R&D investment is determined. Finally, firms...

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Kaiser, Ulrich; Voß, Katrin - 1999

In an a priori view, it is usually assumed that the business cycle of manufacturing industries leads the business cycle of the service sector. This seems to be even more plausible for the relationship between business-related services, whose high growth rates in recent years were largely due to...

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Measuring knowledge spillovers in manufacturing and services : an empirical assessment of alternative approaches

Kaiser, Ulrich - 1999

In this paper it is tested which of the various alternative approaches for constructing knowledge spillover pools suggested in existing literature measures the extent to which a firm can costlessly receive external knowlegde best. Since knowledge spillovers are unmeasurable, a 'goodness of fit'...

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The ZEW/Creditreform business survey in the business-related services sector : sampling frame, stratification, expansion and results

Kaiser, Ulrich; Kreuter, Markus; Niggemann, Hiltrud - 2000

No other area of the German economy has developed so emphatically in the past ten years as has that business-related services. Regardless of its growing overall economic importance, official statistics fail to provide economic researchers and economic policy with current data on the...

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Research cooperation and research expenditures with endogenous absorptive capacity : theory and microeconometric evidence for the German service sector

Kaiser, Ulrich - 2000

This paper derives a three stage Cournot duopoly game for research collaboration, research expenditures and product market competition. The amount of knowledge firms can absorb from other firms is made dependent on their own research efforts, e.g., firms' absorptive capacity is treated as an...

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The performance of German firms in the business-related service sectors : a dynamic analysis

Nguyen-Van Phu; Kaiser, Ulrich; Laisney, François - 2000

We analyze the performance of firms in the German business-related services sector. A quarterly business survey provides the panel data base of our study. Firm performance is measured by the survey respondents' ordinal indication of their changes in total sales. We use a firstorder Markov chain...

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