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A Triptych Inquiry: Rethinking Sustainability, Innovation, and Financial Performance
Busch, Timo; Stinchfield, Bryan T.; Wood, Matthew S. - 2011
Management scholars have sought to answer the question: is there a financial payoff for ad-dressing ecological and social issues? We move beyond this question and include a time com-ponent for corporate financial performance (CFP) and a firm’s innovativeness in order to ask: when does it pay?...
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Nobody's gonna slow me down? The effects of a transportation cost shock on firm performance and behavior
Branco, Catarina; Dohse, Dirk; dos Santos, João Pereira; … - 2022
exit in treated municipalities, but not for increased re-location. …
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Nobody’s gonna slow me down? The effects of a transportation cost shock on firm performance and behavior
Branco, Catarina; Dohse, Dirk C.; Pereira dos Santos, João - In: Journal of Urban Economics 136 (2023), pp. --
We study the firm-level responses to a substantial increase in transportation costs in the wake of a quasi-experiment that introduced tolls in a subset of Portuguese highways. Exploiting a unique dataset encompassing the universe of Portuguese private firms, we find that the introduction of...
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New regulations on medical devices in Europe: Are they an opportunity for growth?
Maresova, Petra; Hajek, Ladislav; Krejcar, Ondrej; … - In: Administrative Sciences 10 (2020) 1, pp. 1-18
Increasing demand for modern treatments and significant profit margins are strong incentives for investors and producers. However, the production and use of medical devices is subject to a number of laws, regulations, strict standards, and certification processes. Therefore, the aim of this...
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What is important for the growth of latecomers in the medical device industry?
Yeom, Kyungtae; Song, Changhyeon; Shin, Kwangsoo; Choi, … - In: Journal of Open Innovation: Technology, Market, and … 7 (2021) 1, pp. 1-15
In the medical device industry, which is highly value-added and requires multidisciplinary knowledge, major global firms dominate the market, so it is necessary to establish a growth strategy suitable for latecomers. Through a Korean case, it was confirmed that import, diversification, and R&D...
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What are the success factors for a partnership with global medical device companies? Evidence from Korea
Kim, Dongwoo; Ryu, Gyu Ha; Shin, Kwangsoo; Lee, Kyu-Sung - In: Journal of Open Innovation: Technology, Market, and … 7 (2021) 4, pp. 1-20
The medical device industry is uniquely characterized by both resourceful global companies and innovative catching-up companies. The studies by Chatterji have analyzed how large and established medical device companies could better utilize the ideas from innovative groups such as physicians....
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Medizintechnik: eine innovative Branche in regulierten Märkten
Hornschild, Kurt; Wilkens, Markus - In: DIW Wochenbericht 71 (2004) 48, pp. 749-756
Produkte der Medizintechnik dargestellt. Für die stark innovationsgetriebene und sehr heterogene Branche lassen sich … grundlegende technologische Entwicklungstrends erkennen, aus denen Schlüsseltechnologien der Medizintechnik abgeleitet werden … können. Technologieorientierte Unternehmen der Medizintechnik agieren dabei in regulierten nationalen Gesundheitsmärkten …
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Medizintechnik in Deutschland: auch in Zukunft dynamisches Wachstum?
Hornschild, Kurt; Weiß, Jörg-Peter - In: DIW Wochenbericht 72 (2005) 46, pp. 683-693
Die Medizintechnik zählt zu den wenigen Industrien, die in Deutschland bis zuletzt hohe Produktionszuwächse erzielten … nach Gesundheitsleistungen spricht dafür, dass die Medizintechnik generell gute Wachstumschancen hat. Ob die Branche … Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Arbeit (BMWA) wurde das DIW Berlin beauftragt, die Perspektiven der Medizintechnik am Standort …
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Overconfidence and technology adoption in health care
Comin, Diego; Skinner, Jonathan; Staiger, Douglas - 2022
Variation in technology adoption is a key driver of differences in productivity. Previous studies sought to explain variations in technology adoption by heterogeneity in profitability, costs of adoption, or other factors. Less is known about how adoption is affected by bias in the perceived...
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Temporary Agency Work and Firm Performance: Evidence from German Establishment-Level Panel Data
Beckmann, Michael; Kuhn, Dieter - 2009
This paper empirically examines the impact of temporary agency work on firm performance using panel data from German establishments. Thereby, special attention is devoted to the question, whether there are performance differences between firms using temporary agency workers (TAWs) as a buffer...
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