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Is Innovative Firm Behavior Correlated with Age and Gender Composition of the Workforce? Evidence from a New Type of Data for German Enterprises
Pfeifer, Christian - 2012
development (R&D)) for a large representative sample of enterprises from manufacturing industries in Germany using unique newly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013096452
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Is innovative firm behavior correlated with age and gender composition of the workforce? : evidence from a new type of data for German enterprises
Pfeifer, Christian; Wagner, Joachim - 2012 - This version: November 29, 2012
more active in R&D. -- Ageing ; firm performance ; gender ; Germany ; innovation ; R&D … development (R&D)) for a large representative sample of enterprises from manufacturing industries in Germany using unique newly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009670433
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Is innovative firm behavior correlated with age and gender composition of the workforce? : evidence from a new type of data for German enterprises
Pfeifer, Christian; Wagner, Joachim - 2012
more active in R&D. -- ageing ; firm performance ; gender ; Germany ; innovation ; R&D … development (R&D)) for a large representative sample of enterprises from manufacturing industries in Germany using unique newly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009675512
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Female hires and the success of start-up firms
Weber, Andrea; Zulehner, Christine - 2009
In this paper we investigate the relationship between females among the first hires of start-up companies and business success. Our results show that firms with female first hires have a higher share of female workers at the end of the first year after entry. Further, we find that firms with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011343913
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Do Women Lag Behind Men? A Matched-Sample Analysis of the Dynamics of Gender Gaps
Farhat, Joseph B. - 2016
Previous studies found mixed answers whether women-owned firms are less successful than men-owned firms. Women entrepreneurs may lag behind men because they tend to have less human capital, they may have different personal preferences toward their businesses, and they tend to choose highly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012991736
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Age and gender effects of workforce composition on productivity and profits : evidence from a new type of data for German enterprises
Pfeifer, Christian; Wagner, Joachim - In: Contemporary economics 8 (2014) 1, pp. 25-46
manufacturing industries in Germany using newly available, unique data. We find concave age-productivity profiles and a negative …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010403909
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Impact of Women in the Invention Team on Product Development Outcomes
Sethuraman, Nagarajan; Jena, Deepak; Shah, Rachna; … - 2022
Does having additional women participate in research and product development teams result in more successful products downstream? We examine this question in the context of the pharmaceutical industry which has suffered from historically low women participation in the patent invention teams,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014236963
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How innovative climate leads to project success : the moderating role of gender and work culture
Sarwar, Ambreen; Imran, Muhammad Kashif; Anjum, … - In: Innovation & management review 17 (2020) 4, pp. 413-430
Purpose In modern times, innovation is considered as a vital component of sustainable competitive advantage. The … purpose of this paper is to identify how innovation at the individual level [innovative work behavior (IWB)] and at the … innovation and PS. Work culture was supported as a moderator; however, no moderating effect of gender was validated by the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012395165
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Female owners versus female managers : who is better at introducing innovations?
Dohse, Dirk; Goel, Rajeev K.; Nelson, Michael A. - 2017
finance availability constraints actually spurred innovation. Finally, the economy-wide effects of greater economic freedom …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011745792