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A New Regional Geography of Europe?The Labour Market Impact of the EU Enlargements

Caroleo, Floro Ernesto; Pastore, Francesco - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

This paper provides a critical overview and a detailed research agenda for scholarsinterested in regional studies with a special focus on old and new European Union memberstates. The focus is on the microeconomic foundations of structural change and its spatiallyasymmetric impact on labour...

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Penetrating the Knowledge Filter in "Rust Belt" Economies

Ács, Zoltán; Plummer, Lawrence A.; Sutter, Ryan - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2008

A new model of economic growth introduces the knowledge filter between new generic knowledge and economically-useful knowledge. It identifies both the formation of new ventures and the absorptive capacity of incumbent firms as the mechanisms that penetrate the knowledge filter. Recent empirical...

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Penetrating the Knowledge Filter in the Rust Belt

Acs, Zoltán J.; Plummer, Lawrence A.; Sutter, Ryan - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2007

A new model of economic growth introduces the knowledge filter between new knowledge and economically useful knowledge. It identifies both new ventures and incumbent firms as the mechanisms that penetrate the knowledge filter. Recent empirical work has shown that new firms are more proficient at...

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The Determinants of New-firm Survival across Regional Economies

Acs, Zoltán J.; Armington, Catherine; Zhang, Ting - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2006

Motivated by differences in New-firm survival across regions, this paper explores the impact of regional human capital on New-firm survival rates. New-firm survival is interpreted through formation rates of surviving versus closed firms in the sevice sector...

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The Knowledge Spillover Theory of Entrepreneurship

Acs, Zoltán J.; Audretsch, David B.; Braunerhjelm, Pontus - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2005

entrepreneurship literature is that opportunities are exogenous, the most prevalent theory of innovation in the economics literature …

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The Impact of Geographic Differences inHuman Capital on Service Firm Formation Rates

Acs, Zoltán J.; Armington, Catherine - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2004

Although human capital externalities are a key variable in theories of economic growth, there has been little investigation of the mechanism by which these externalities are realized. We examine the relationship between the local levels of human capital and firm formation rates and find that...

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Best Performing Cities

DeVol, Ross; Wallace, Lorna - 2004

This research report from the Milken Institute ranks U.S. metropolitan areas that are recording the top economic performance and creating the most jobs in the nation. The index is an outcomes-based measure as opposed to one that incorporates explicit measures of business costs, cost-of-living...

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Outsourcing der Informationsverarbeitung im Mittelstand: Test eines multitheoretischen Kausalmodells

Dibbern, Jens; Heinzl, Armin - 2000

In dem vorliegenden Beitrag werden aus der Transaktionskostentheorie, der "Resource-basedTheory" und der "Power Theory …In this paper determinants of IS outsourcing are deduced from transaction cost theory, resource-based theory and power … theory. They are summarized in a theoretical framework which istested using a sample of 34 small and medium sized firms. …

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Kundenerfahrung als Forschungsgegenstand im Marketing – Konzeptionalisierung, Operationalisierung und empirische Befunde

Bruhn, Manfred; Mayer-Vorfelder, Matthias - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliches Zentrum <Basel> - 2011

Der Beitrag diskutiert Kundenerfahrung als Bezugsrahmen, der die beiden Konstrukte Kundenerlebnisund Kundenvertrautheit umfasst. Kundenerfahrung wird konzeptionalisiert alsKundenerlebnis im Sinne eines Maßstabs für die Qualität der Kundenerfahrung (positiv/negativ). Die Einflussstärke der...

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Eine anwenderorientierte Einführung in die Partial Least Square (PLS)-Methode

Nitzl, Christian - Institut für Industriebetriebslehre und Organisation … - 2010

Im Zentrum vieler empirischer Studien steht die Erforschung latenter Variablen, welchedurch ein Netzwerk von Hypothesen miteinander in Verbindung gebracht werden. LatenteVariablen entziehen sich einer direkten Beobachtung und müssen mithilfe einer Operationalisierungerst messbar gemacht...

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