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Enterprise systems and labor productivity : disentangling combination effects
Engelstätter, Benjamin - 2009
This study analyzes the relationship between the three main enterprise systems (Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Supply Chain Management (SCM), Customer Relationship Management (CRM)) and labor productivity. It reveals the performance gains due to different combinations of these systems. It...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003871217
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Enterprise systems and innovations
Engelstätter, Benjamin - 2009
This paper analyzes the relationship between the three main enterprise systems (Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Supply Chain Management (SCM), Customer Relationship Management (CRM)) and firms’ innovational performance. It studies whether the enterprise systems have impacts on process as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003914351
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How weather-proof is the construction sector? : empirical evidence from Germany
Arntz, Melanie (contributor); Wilke, Ralf A. (contributor) - 2008
, Germany maintains an extensive bad weather allowance system. Since the mid 1990s, these regulations have been subject to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003784704
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The influence of strategic patenting on companies' patent portfolios
Cremers, Katrin; Müller, Elisabeth - 2008
This paper analyses whether strategic motives for patenting influence the characteristics of companies' patent portfolios. We use the number of citations and oppositions to represent these characteristics. The investigation is based on survey and patent data from German companies. We find clear...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003888732
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The influence of strategic patenting on companies' patent portfolios
Blind, Knut (contributor); Cremers, Katrin (contributor);  … - 2007
This paper analyses whether strategic motives for patenting influence the characteristics of companies' patent portfolios. We use the number of citations and oppositions to represent these characteristics. The investigation is based on survey and patent data from German companies. We find clear...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003447748
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Auswirkungen der Wirtschaftskrise auf die Innovationstätigkeit der Unternehmen in Deutschland
Rammer, Christian - 2011
Die schwere Wirtschaftskrise 2008/09 hatte substanzielle Auswirkungen auf die Innovationstätigkeit der deutschen Wirtschaft. Die Umsatz- und Gewinneinbußen führten zu einem kräftigen Rückgang der Innovationsausgaben. Davon waren primär Investitionen für neue Produkte und verbesserte...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009424135
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Formal and strategic appropriability strategies of multinational firms : a cross country comparison
Faria, Pedro (contributor); Sofka, Wolfgang (contributor) - 2008
and Germany. We find that MNCs prefer broader sets of appropriability strategies in host countries with fewer …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003721781
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Global idea sourcing : an empirical investigation into the mechanisms behind the usage of foreign business sources for innovation
Sofka, Wolfgang (contributor) - 2005
, logistics, the internet) and ideology (most notably economic and political trends in China and India) are creating exciting …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003051029
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Endogenous firm heterogeneity, ICT and R&D incentives
Cequera, Daniel (contributor); Klein, Gordon J. (contributor) - 2008
Firm heterogeneity explains the productivity driven selection mechanism that determines aggregate productivity growth within industries. This paper empirically demonstrates that ICT has a robust impact on firm heterogeneity only when ICT is used intensively and jointly with specific ICT...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003794022
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Firm acquisitions and technology strategy : corporate versus private equity investors
Grimpe, Christoph (contributor);  … - 2007
Over the last few years, worldwide mergers and acquisitions (M&A) have increased sharply both in terms of value and volume. This development has not only been driven by corporate acquirers but also to an increasing extent by private equity investors. In this paper, we analyze differences in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003578401