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Innovation and information technology in services
Licht, Georg; Moch, Dietmar - 1997
The missing effect of investments of firms in information and communication technologies on productivity is studied by …) has a stronger effect on the quality of services than on the productivity of the IT-using firm. IT investment seems to be … especially the most recent generation of IT as indicated by the number of PCs used is the source of productivity growth whereas …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011440920
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Entry deterrence in postal service markets
Beschorner, Patrick Frank Ernst (contributor) - 2007
In this paper we analyze the incentive of the German postal service (Deutsche Post AG, DPAG) to increase quality in the light of the upcoming liberalization of the postal services market. Currently, there would be no incentive for DPAG to increase its quality if the market were not to be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003608109
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University rankings in action? : The importance of rankings and an excellence competition for university choice of high-ability students?
Horstschräer, Julia - 2011
This paper analyzes how high-ability students respond to different indicators of university quality when applying for a university. Are some quality dimensions of a ranking, e.g. research reputation or mentoring more important than others? I estimate a random utility model using administrative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009374442
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Hochschulranglisten als Qualitätsindikatoren im Wettbewerb der Hochschulen
Büttner, Thiess; Kraus, Margit; Rincke, Johannes - 2002
Am Beispiel der Wirtschaftswissenschaften wird untersucht, inwieweit Studierende die Qualität der Fachbereiche bei der Studienortwahl berücksichtigen. Im Rahmen eines Gravitationsansatzes zeigt sich, dass vor allem die Nähe zum Heimatort und die Lebenshaltungskosten am Ort der Hochschule die...
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Green innovations and organizational change : making better use of environmental technology
Hottenrott, Hanna; Rexhäuser, Sascha; Veugelers, Reinhilde - 2014 - This version - February 2014
This study investigates productivity effects to firms introducing new environmental technologies. The literature on … within-firm organisational change and productivity suggests that firms can get higher productivity effects from adopting new … firms located in Germany. The adoption of CO2 reducing and sustainable technologies innovations is associated with lower …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010238378
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Allocation of human capital and innovation at the frontier : firm-level evidence on Germany and the Netherlands
Bartelsmann, Eric; Dobbelaere, Sabien; Peters, Bettina - 2014
conditional productivity distribution. Our analysis draws upon two large unbalanced panels of 6,634 enterprises in Germany and 14 …This paper examines how productivity effects of human capital and innovation vary at different points of the …-skilled employees and industries in Germany by a more unequal distribution of human capital intensity. In Germany, average innovation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010405991
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Combining technology and work organization : an analysis of complementarity between IT and decentralization across firms of different size
Rasel, Fabienne - 2014
service sector in Germany, I can observe firms’ IT intensity in terms of enterprise software and computer use and whether … productivity but the combination of IT and decentralization does not yield a productivity premium. Contrarily, for the sample of … larger firms, the results show that the productivity of IT depends positively on decentralization. The findings suggest that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010416339
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Internationalisation, innovation and productivity in services : evidence from Germany, Ireland and the United Kingdom
Peters, Bettina; Riley, Rebecca R.; Siedschlag, Iulia; … - 2018
This paper examines the links between internationalisation, innovation and productivity in service enterprises. For … this purpose, we use micro data from the Community Innovation Survey 2008 in Germany, Ireland and the United Kingdom, and … higher productivity. Among the innovation types that we consider, the largest productivity returns were found for marketing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011792372
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Productivity and distribution effects of codetermination in an efficient bargaining
Kraft, Kornelius - 2017
the productivity of labor and relative bargaining power of capital and labor. It turns out that codetermination does not … affect productivity, but leads to a significant increase in workers’ bargaining power and the distribution of rents. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011738981
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Product market competition, corporate governance and firm performance : an empirical analysis for Germany
Januszewski, Silke I.; Köke, F. Jens; Winter, Joachim - 1999
Germany's bank-based system of internal control, ownership concentration is harmful for productivity growth. …Productivity growth has been slow in many continental European countries over the last few decades, especially in … econometric analysis of firm performance in Germany. Based on a unique panel data set with detailed information on almost 400 …
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