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This paper shows that top management structures in large US firms radically changed since the mid-1980s. While the number of managers reporting directly to the CEO doubled, the growth was driven primarily by functional managers rather than general managers. Using panel data on senior management...
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Sustainable development remains a formidable challenge for the societies of the 21st century. A number of concepts have been put forward on how to reach sustainability at a macro-economic level. These concepts are based on different points of view of economic, social and environmental systems...
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This paper investigates the impact of in-house R&D and innovation management practices on innovation success in small … innovation management tools in order to achieve innovation success. We analyse whether such a strategy can pay off. Based on data … from the German CIS we find that R&D activities are a main driver for innovation success if combined with external R …
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The missing effect of investments of firms in information and communication technologies on productivity is studied by …
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harmful to the probability of process innovation based on IT. Leaving the negative relationship between older workers and the …. Thus, not older workers in general are harmful to firms' innovation capabilities, but older workers who lack the …
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findings emphasize the role of a firm's absorptive capacity and its ICT competence in data-based innovation. It seems that … customer involvement in innovation process positively relates to the production of new data-based products and services. The … reported empirical findings further indicate that data-based product and service innovation tends to be rather strongly demand-driven. …
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The innovation activities of foreign subsidiaries have been identified as an important source of competitive advantage … foreignness). We derive potential stumbling blocks in the innovation process theoretically and argue that these materialize as … innovation activities in Germany from various sectors. We find that foreign-controlled firms are not challenged by liability of …
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known about how the direction of search strategies influences innovation performance. In this paper, we argue that firms … that being open for innovation generally pays off. However, both moderating factors have a crucial role to play: On the one … novel knowledge and to enhance innovation performance. We develop targeted management recommendations based on these results. …
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Our study shows empirically that the choice of resource allocation strategy affects innovation performance. A policy of … allocating resources to a broader range of innovation projects increases sales of new products, especially if these are truly … stronger for firms that allocate resources more selectively at later stages of the innovation process. Based on these results …
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