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Small firm innovation performance and employee involvement

Andries, Petra; Czarnitzki, Dirk - 2012

CEOs, managers and non-managerial employees’ ideas enhances small firms’ innovation performance. A Heckman selection model … innovation performance. However, contributions depend heavily on the individuals’ area of expertise and on whether product or … process innovation is desired. Our findings enrich the current view on the entrepreneurial team, but also warn against the …

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Workers into managers - developing leadership competence of production unit managers

Rappe, Christoph (contributor); Zwick, Thomas (contributor) - 2005

This study analyses the competence gaps of lower-level managers in a typical manufacturing plant in Germany that had recently introduced a teamwork structure. Results indicate that the managers have difficulties with their new leadership-related tasks. Higher levels of leadership competence are...

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Can a task-based approach explain the recent changes in the German wage structure?

Antonczyk, Dirk (contributor); … - 2009

This paper investigates the changes in the German wage structure for full-time working males from 1999 to 2006. Our analysis builds on the task-based approach introduced by Autor et al. (2003), as implemented by Spitz-Oener (2006) for Germany, and also accounts for job complexity. We perform a...

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IT capital, job content and educational attainment

Spitz-Oener, Alexandra - 2003

Based on a large data set containing information on occupations between 1979 and 1999, this study explores the "black box" surrounding the skill-biased technological change hypothesis by analyzing the mechanisms that induce information technologies to be complementary to employees with higher...

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Are skill requirements in the workplace rising? : Stylized facts and evidence on skill-biased technological change

Spitz-Oener, Alexandra (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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Incentivizing creativity : a large-scale experiment with tournaments and gifts

Bradler, Christiane; Neckermann, Susanne; Warnke, Arne Jonas - 2016

incentives and wage gifts on creativity. We find that tournaments substantially increase creative output, with no evidence for …

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How creative are you? : an experimental study on self-selection in a competitive incentive scheme for creative performance

Bradler, Christiane - 2015

Economic theory suggests that performance pay may serve as an effective screening device to attract productive agents. The existing evidence on the self-selection of agents is largely limited to job tasks where performance is driven by routine, well-defined procedures. This study presents...

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A field experiment in motivating employee ideas

Gibbs, Michael; Neckermann, Susanne; Siemroth, Christoph - 2014

crowding out. Our findings suggest that rewards can improve innovation and creativity, and that there may be a tradeoff between …

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The impact of the financial crisis on investments in innovative firms

Giebel, Marek; Kraft, Kornelius - 2015

This paper investigates the impact of the financial crisis on investment decisions in innovative versus non-innovative firms. Firms are defined as being innovative if they have introduced a new product to the market. The empirical test is based on data for the years before and after the recent...

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Sources of spillovers for imitation and innovation

Cappellin, Riccardo; Czarnitzki, Dirk; Kraft, Kornelius - 2013

market (innovation). It turns out that spillovers from rivals lead to more imitation, while inputs from customers and … research institutions enhance original innovation. …

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