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Staging innovation projects : (when) does it pay off?

Andries, Petra; Hünermund, Paul - 2014

Building on real options literature, this study shows that the use of a staged approach for the management of innovation projects affects the innovation output of firms differently depending on firm characteristics and ambitions. In particular, while staged project management increases the...

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Subsidized and non-subsidized R&D projects : do they differ?

Koehler, Mila; Peters, Bettina - 2017

Little is known about whether and to what extent the outcome of subsidized and non-subsidized R&D projects differ. In this paper we exploit a novel dataset of patent applications filed in Germany between 1995-2005, which allows us to identify if a patent application stems from a subsidized...

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Drivers for international innovation activities in developed and emerging countries

Schmiele, Anja - 2009

This paper aims to shed light on firm specific drivers that lead firms to internationalise their innovation activities. The paper draws a comprehensive picture of driving forces by including firm capabilities, characteristics of the firm’s competitive environment and the influence of...

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Offshoring and labor income risk

Hogrefe, Jan; Yao, Yao - 2012

This paper analyzes the impact increased offshoring has on labor income risk. It is therefore distinct from a large number of studies explaining the level effects of globalization on the labor market in that it takes a look at effects on second moments, i.e. the variance of incomes. It provides...

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IT outsourcing and firm productivity : eliminating bias from selective missingness in the dependent variable

Breunig, Christoph; Kummer, Michael E.; Ohnemus, Jörg; … - 2016

data and a binary instrumental variable to estimate the effect of outsourcing on productivity. …

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IT outsourcing and employment growth at the firm level

Ohnemus, Jörg - 2010

Outsourcing is widely associated with accompanied job losses in the outsourcing firm, at least in the short run …. However, the medium and long run effects of outsourcing on employment growth might still be positive. This paper particularly … focuses on IT outsourcing and its medium-term effects on employment growth. Therefore, a three year time period from 2003 to …

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

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

outsourcing of R&D activities to contract research organizations and its implications for innovation performance. This paper …

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Does IT outsourcing increase firm success? : an empirical assessment using firm-level data

Ohnemus, Jörg (contributor) - 2007

estimated in order to explore differences in labor productivity between IT outsourcing and non-IT outsourcing firms. This … approach takes possible complementarities between IT outsourcing and production input factors into account and further allows … IT outsourcing to affect any factor of the production function. Estimation results show that IT outsourcing firms produce …

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Productivity effects of business process outsourcing : a firm-level investigation based on panel data

Ohnemus, Jörg - 2009

This paper analyses the impact of business process outsourcing (BPO) on firm productivity based on a comprehensive … communication technologies. Outsourcing firms can concentrate on their core competencies. Additionally, they benefit from the …-level productivity. The results are robust across different estimation techniques. -- Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) ; Productivity …

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External technology supply and client-side innovation

Peukert, Christian - 2011

literature. Some authors find beneficial effects of IT outsourcing, others underline that firms often fail to achieve expected … support the theoretical arguments and suggest a positive linear relationship between the level of outsourcing and process … Innovation ; Process Innovation ; KIBS ; IT Outsourcing ; ZEW ICT survey …

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