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Do Organizational Forms matter? An Econometric Analysis of Innovativeness in the German Wastewater Sector
Tauchmann, Harald; Clausen, Hartmut - 2004
In the German wastewater sector, innovations are often regarded to be the key to both more efficient service provision and reduction of environmental and health-related problems. However, it is unclear what factors foster these innovations. One possible candidate factor is increased competition...
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Threshold Effects of Dismissal Protection Legislation in Germany
Verick, Sher - 2004
In this paper we use a reform in the applicability of the Protection Against Dismissal Act or Kündigungsschutzgesetz in Germany to identify employment effects of the legislation for small establishments. Using a panel of establishments for the period 1997-2001, we find some evidence that a...
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Who Among White Collar Workers Has an Opportunity for Phased Retirement? : Establishment Characteristics
Grace-Martin, Karen; Hutchens, Robert M. - 2004
Utilizing a new survey of employers, this paper examines how and why establishments differ in their willingness to permit an older full-time white-collar worker to take phased retirement. Phased retirement means that an older worker remains with his or her employer while gradually reducing work...
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Too Big To Fail: Ein gordischer Knoten für die Finanzmarktaufsicht?
Kellermann, Kersten - 2010
Im vorliegenden Beitrag werden wesentlichen Merkmale eines Too Big To Fail (TBTF) Regimes diskutiert. Hierunter wird ein politisches Umfeld verstanden, in dem grosse, systemrelevante Finanzinstitute durch staatliche Massnahmen vor der Insolvenz gerettet werden. Das TBTF Regime rechtfertigt sich...
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Land Access, Tenure and Investment in Post-War Northern Mozambique
Brück, Tilman - 2003
The relationship between land investment and tenure security is usually tested in land scarce but peaceful areas. This article examines instead the effects of land abundance and war for investment and tenure security. The paper demonstrates that war enhances land abundance. This implies that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010260692
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Cooperation behaviour and innovation performance in the Nigerian manufacturing industry
Egbetokun, Abiodun A. - 2012
Analysing the relationship between firms' openness to external knowledge and their innovation performance is nothing … focus of this paper. Using unique micro-level innovation data, it is shown, as the existing literature suggests, that firms …. However, innovative firms that exploit external knowledge do not necessarily enjoy greater innovation benefits than those that …
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Absorptive capacity and innovation: When is it better to cooperate?
Egbetokun, Abiodun A.; Savin, Ivan - 2012
Cooperation can benefit and hurt firms at the same time. An important question then is: when is it better to cooperate. And how can an appropriate partner be selected? In this paper we present a model of inter-firm cooperation driven by cognitive distance, appropriability conditions and external...
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Does Partner Type Matter in R&D Collaboration for Environmental Innovation?
Pippel, Gunnar - 2013
firm's environmental innovation performance. However, the literature suggests that R&D collaboration is not always … beneficial. Therefore, a more elaborated analysis of the effects of R&D collaborations on a firm's environmental innovation … a firm's environmental innovation performance. In addition, this paper addresses the question of whether the diversity …
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Are the Chinese in Africa More Innovative than the Africans? Comparing Chinese and Nigerian Entrepreneurial Migrants' Cultures of Innovation
Kohnert, Dirk - 2010
The remarkable influx of Chinese migrant entrepreneurs in West Africa has been met with growing resistance from established African entrepreneurs. Whether the former have a competitive edge over the latter because of distinctive sociocultural traits or whether the Chinese's supposed...
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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 empirical research note documents the relationship between composition of a firm's workforce (with a special focus on age and gender) and its performance with respect to innovative activities (outlays and employment in research and development (R&D)) for a large representative sample of...
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