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Women on the board and executive duration : evidence for European listed firms
Buchwald, Achim; Hottenrott, Hanna - 2015
The participation of women in top-level corporate boards (or rather the lack of it) is subject to intense public debate. Several countries are considering legally binding quotas to increase the share of women on boards. Indeed, research on board diversity suggests positive effects of gender...
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Spillovers of innovation activities and their profitability
Czarnitzki, Dirk (contributor); Kraft, Kornelius (contributor) - 2007
leakage of knowledge in an industry will negatively affect profitability. This paper presents the results of an empirical … study on the effects of outgoing and incoming spillovers on firms’ profitability. It turns out that the expected asymmetry …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003607681
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The contribution of international R&D to firm profitability
Peters, Bettina; Schmiele, Anja - 2011
innovativeness and consequently competitiveness and profitability. Such business ventures, however, might be associated with huge … international R&D activities boost profitability. We employ a large data set of about 1300 firms from the German Community … Innovation Survey (CIS). The empirical results demonstrate that R&D location matters for profitability. Firms with both domestic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008901575
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The dynamic relationship between investments in brand equity and firm profitability : evidence using trademark registrations
Crass, Dirk; Czarnitzki, Dirk; Toole, Andrew A. - 2016
Most marketing practitioners and scholars agree that marketing assets such as brand equity significantly contribute to a firm's financial performance. In this paper, we model brand equity as an unobservable stock that results from up to thirty years of past brand-related investment flows. Using...
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Non-technological and technological innovation : strange dedfellows?
Schmidt, Tobias (contributor); Rammer, Christian (contributor) - 2007
Non-technological innovation is an important element of firms' innovation activities that both supplement and complement technological innovation, i.e. the introduction of new products and new processes. We analyse the spread of nontechnological innovation in firms, their relation to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003528845
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Environmental innovations and profitability : how does it pay to be green?; an empirical analysis on the German innovation survey
Ghisetti, Claudia; Rennings, Klaus - 2013
’ profitability with opposite signs, and, secondly, whether the motivations driving the adoption of those innovations make the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010128710
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The performance of German firms in the business-related service sectors : a dynamic analysis
Nguyen-Van Phu; Kaiser, Ulrich; Laisney, François - 2000
We analyze the performance of firms in the German business-related services sector. A quarterly business survey provides the panel data base of our study. Firm performance is measured by the survey respondents' ordinal indication of their changes in total sales. We use a firstorder Markov chain...
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Do private equity owners increase risk of financial distress and bankruptcy?
Tykvová, Tereza; Borell, Mariela - 2011
There is some controversy on the key sources of success in the private equity model and on how this business model affects the portfolio companies. We investigate financial distress risks of European companies around the buyout event in the period between 2000 and 2008. In addition, we analyze...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009424110
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Finanzierungsstrukturen im Vergleich - eine Analyse europäischer Unternehmen
Ramb, Fred - 1998
zur Finanzierungsstruktur von Unternehmen weitgehend ungelöst. Dabei ist insbesondere in der empirischen Evidenz dieses …
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Do Ukrainian firms benefit from FDI?
Lutz, Stefan H. (contributor);  … - 2003
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