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Mergers & Acquisitions and Innovation Performance in the TelecommunicationsEquipment Industry

Gantumur, Tseveen; Stephan, Andreas - Sonderforschungsbereich Ökonomisches Risiko <Berlin> - 2007

M&A and Innovation a major means of todays competitive strategy development, this paper examines the innovation … determinants of M&A activity and the consequences of M&A transactions on the technological potential and the innovation performance … firm-level data on M&A and innovation activity as well as financial characteristics. By implementing a counterfactual …

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Discrete Innovation, Continuous Improvement,and Competitive Pressure

Ghosh, Arghya; Kato, Takao; Morita, Hodaka - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

Does competitive pressure foster innovation? In addressing this important question, priorstudies ignored a distinction … between discrete innovation aiming at entirely new technologyand continuous improvement consisting of numerous incremental …

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Employment Effects of Innovation at the Firm Level

Rottmann, Horst; Lachenmaier, Stefan - Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften <Amberg - 2007

This paper analyzes empirically the effects of innovation onemployment at the firm level using a uniquely long panel …

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Genetic Codes of Mergers, Post Merger Technology Evolution and Why Mergers Fail

Cuntz, Alexander - Sonderforschungsbereich Ökonomisches Risiko <Berlin> - 2008

This paper addresses the key determinants of merger failure, in particularthe role of innovation (post … introduce a model of process innovation where merged firmsexibit intra-merger spillover of knowledge under different market …) which contradicts the notion of failureand suits well the open innovation paradigm. …

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THE SUN ALSO RISES: PRODUCTIVITY CONVERGENCE BETWEENJAPAN AND THE USA

Cameron, Gavin - University <Oxford> / Department of Economics - 2000

The growth process for a technological leader is different from that of a follower.While followers can grow through imitation and capital deepening, a leader must undertakeoriginal research. This suggests that as the gap between the leader and the follower narrows, thefollower must undertake...

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Verdienen Manager, was sie verdienen? –Eine wirtschaftsethische Stellungnahme

Pies, Ingo; Sass, Peter - Universität <Halle, Saale> / Lehrstuhl für … - 2010

In der öffentlichen Diskussion werden die Bezüge von Führungskräften mit der Semantikder Leistungsgerechtigkeit bewertet. Allerdings zeigt eine detaillierte Analysevon Prinzipal-Agent-Problemen in der modernen Wirtschaft, dass eine leistungsgerechteEntlohnung oft nicht das beste Ergebnis...

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International Mobility of the Highly Skilled, Endogenous R&D, and Public Infrastructure Investment

Grossmann, Volker; Stadelmann, David - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008

This paper theoretically and empirically analyzes the interaction of emigration of highly skilled labor, an economy`s income gap to potential host economies of expatriates, and optimal public infrastructure investment. In a model with endogenous education and R&D investment decisions we show...

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Jobless Growth through Creative Destruction:Ireland´s Industrial Development Path 19722003

Li, Qi; Walsh, Patrick Paul; Whelan, Ciara - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

We document the nature of structural changes in employment to understand jobless growthin Irish Manufacturing in the aftermath of EEC/EU membership, 1972-2003. By 1972, fortyyears of protectionism and fifteen years of export promotion induced the coexistence of largeexporting plants with...

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Shifts and Twists in the Relative Productivity ofSkilled Labor

Dupuy, Arnaud; Marey, Philip S. - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

Skill-biased technical change is usually interpreted in terms of the efficiency parameters ofskilled and unskilled labor. This implies that the relative productivity of skilled workerschanges proportionally in all tasks. In contrast, we argue that technical changes also affectthe curvature of...

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Growth, Development, and Technological Change

Grossmann, Volker; Steger, Thomas M. - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

structure of endogenous growthmodels with horizontal as well as vertical innovation and emphasizing important implicationsfor …

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