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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011444923
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Works councils and the productivity impact of direct employee participation
Zwick, Thomas - 2003
This paper measures the productivity impact of management-led participative establishment practices. On the basis of a representative German establishment data set, the IAB establishment panel, the study finds that the presence of team-work, a reduction of hierarchies and autonomous work groups...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011448687
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Reassessing the impact of high performance workplaces
Wolf, Elke (contributor); Zwickel, Thomas (contributor) - 2002
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001696197
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Innovation activities abroad and the effects of liability of foreignness : where it hurts
Sofka, Wolfgang (contributor) - 2006
innovation activities in Germany from various sectors. We find that foreign-controlled firms are not challenged by liability of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003319681
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Lost in translation : empirical evidence for liability of foreignness as barries to knowledge spillovers
Schmidt, Tobias (contributor); Sofka, Wolfgang (contributor) - 2006
country knowledge. We use a broad sample of roughly 1,000 firms in Germany to empirically test the existence of liabilities of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003273110
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Jobs, crime, and votes : a short-run evaluation of the refugee crisis in Germany
Gehrsitz, Markus; Ungerer, Martin - 2016
Millions of refugees made their way to Europe between 2014 and 2015, with over one million arriving in Germany alone …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011572599
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Jobs, crime, and votes : a short-run evaluation of the refugee crisis in Germany
Gehrsitz, Markus; Ungerer, Martin - 2018
Millions of refugees made their way to Europe between 2014 and 2015, with over one million arriving in Germany alone …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011876117
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In search for the not-invented-here syndrome : the role of knowledge sources and firm success
Hussinger, Katrin; Wastyn, Annelies - 2011 - This version: June 2011
The not-invented-here (NIH) syndrome refers to internal resistance in a company against externally developed knowledge. In this paper, we argue that the occurrence of the NIH syndrome depends on the source of external knowledge and the success of the firm that aims at adapting external...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009232252
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Ethnic diversity and attitudes towards redistribution : a review of the literature
Stichnoth, Holger; Van der Straeten, Karine - 2009
We review the empirical literature that studies the effect of ethnic diversity on the welfare state and on individual attitudes. The outcome variables that we cover in the survey are on the one hand public spending, and on the other hand individual attitudes and behaviour, including charity...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003857714
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Romania’s development to a low-tax country : effective corporate tax burden in Romania from 1992 to 2010 and Romania’s current ranking among the eastern European member states
Spengel, Christoph; Lazar, Sebastian; Evers, Lisa; … - 2012
We trace back Romania’s development to a low-tax country among the Member States of the European Union by analysing the … description of the development of corporate taxation in Romania, but goes on with a numerical analysis of the tax burdens at … different periods of time which constitute milestones in the development of corporate taxation in Romania. For this purpose, we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009424711