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Empirical determinants of employee resistance against innovations

Zwick, Thomas - 2000

representative evidence on the impact of the economic environment on employee opposition against the implementation of an innovation … innovation is an increase in employee performance, the firm experiences higher resistance, while resistance is lower in firms … aiming at increasing the product range by the innovation. Profit and turn over expectations of the firm and the outside …

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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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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...

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Knowing that you matter, matters! : the interplay of meaning, monetary incentives, and worker recognition

Kosfeld, Michael; Neckermann, Susanne; Yang, Xiaolan - 2014

We manipulate workers’ perceived meaning of a job in a field experiment. Half of the workers are informed that their job is important, the other half are told that their job is of no relevance. Results show that workers exert more effort when meaning is high, corroborating previous findings on...

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Does codetermination affect the composition of variable versus fixed parts of executive compensation?

Dyballa, Katharina; Kraft, Kornelius - 2015

Contrary to previous literature we hypothesize that interests of labor may well – like that of shareholders – aim at securing the long-run survival of the firm. Consequently, employee representatives on the supervisory board could well have an interest in increasing incentive-based...

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Dips and floors in workplace training : using personnel records to estimate gender differences

Fitzenberger, Bernd; Muehler, Grit - 2011

Using personnel records from a single large German firm in the financial industry, this paper provides detailed evidence on the effect of age and the supervisor's gender on gender differences in workplace training, holding constant various workplace characteristics. We implement an age-specific...

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From less promising to green? : technological opportunities and their role in (green) ICT innovation

Cecere, Grazia; Rexhäuser, Sascha; Schulte, Patrick - 2015

This paper aims to shed light on the role of technological opportunities for green innovation by studying the case of … Green ICT innovation. We test two hypotheses: (1) Firms active in low-opportunity technological areas are less innovative … Office with firm-level data from the German Innovation Panel (Mannheim Innovation Panel). The results are based on dynamic …

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Invalid but infringed? : an analysis of Germany’s bifurcated patent litigation system

Cremers, Katrin; Gaessler, Fabian; Harhoff, Dietmar; … - 2014

We analyze the impact of the probabilistic nature of patents on the functioning of Germany’s bifurcated patent litigation system where infringement and validity of a patent are decided independently by different courts. We show that bifurcation creates situations in which a patent is held...

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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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Does the mobility of R&D labor increase innovation?

Kaiser, Ulrich; Kongsted, Hans Christian; Rønde, Thomas - 2014 - This version: December 15, 2014

-level support for the notion that labor mobility stimulates overall innovation of a country or region due to knowledge transfer. …

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