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Skill composition and regional entrepreneurship : a comparative study between Germany and Portugal

Mendonça, Joana; Grimpe, Christoph - 2009

The question whether agglomeration externalities arise either from specialization or diversification of economic activity has since long been a major topic in the analysis of factors determining economic growth. In this paper we analyze whether a more specialized or a more diverse skill...

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Linkages between international securitized real estate markets : further evidence from time-varying and stochastic cointegration

Schindler, Felix; Voronkova, Svitlana - 2010

This paper analyzes long-run co-movements between international real estate stock markets and between regions based on bivariate and multivariate tests for cointegration. While the topic has been analyzed in previous studies such as Gallo and Zhang (2009) and Yunus (2009) among others, this...

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Investment opportunities in Central and Eastern European equity markets : an econometric examination of the risk-return relationships for Western investors

Schröder, Michael - 2000

This study focuses on the diversification benefits of the most developed equity markets of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). To evaluate these benefits of diversification we use so-called spanning tests based on a stochastic discount factor approach and estimated by General Methods of Moments...

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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...

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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...

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Innovation success of non-R&D-performers : substituting technology by management in SMEs

Rammer, Christian (contributor); … - 2008

This paper investigates the impact of in-house R&D and innovation management practices on innovation success in small … innovation management tools in order to achieve innovation success. We analyse whether such a strategy can pay off. Based on data … innovation success if they effectively apply human resource management tools or team work to facilitate innovation processes. …

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Innovation activities abroad and the effects of liability of foreignness : where it hurts

Sofka, Wolfgang (contributor) - 2006

practices within the multinational firm that do not readily fit into the local context. Finally, we derive management …

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Specialized search and innovation performance : evidence across Europe

Sofka, Wolfgang; Grimpe, Christoph - 2009

novel knowledge and to enhance innovation performance. We develop targeted management recommendations based on these results …. -- Open innovation ; search strategies ; innovation management …

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Does social software support service innovation?

Meyer, Jenny - 2009

firms. Social software can be employed for knowledge management and for external communication enabling access to internal … social software to innovation. -- Social software ; web 2.0 ; service innovation ; knowledge management …

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What makes foreign knowledge attractive to domestic innovation managers?

Sofka, Wolfgang (contributor) - 2007

This study focuses on the early stages of international innovation activities, i.e. the organizational processes through which promising ideas from around the globe are collected and evaluated. We ask: What characteristics make foreign knowledge interesting to domestic R&D managers? We envision...

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