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Recent research has shown that women shy away from competition more often than men. We evaluate experimentally three … Competition unless a critical number of female winners is reached. We find that Quotas and Preferential Treatment encourage women … winners is not worse. The level of cooperation in a post-competition teamwork task is even higher with successful policy …
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tendencies of the concentration and realization of in-tellectual capital. Key words: entrepreneurship, economics of the firm …, competition, intellectual capital, learning organization, knowledge management, corporate university. …
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Die Entwicklung zehn erfolgreicher Start-ups von der Gründung bis zur Wettbewerbsfähigkeit wird in diesem Band nachvollzogen. Dabei stehen konkrete Entscheidungen der Gründer und Faktoren, die den Erfolg der Unternehmen maßgeblich beeinflusst haben, im Fokus. Die zehn Fallstudien, erarbeitet...
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We show that, in the case when innovations are for sale, increased product market competition, captured by reduced … the bidding competition for the innovation and by increasing the relative profitability of being the most efficient firm … in the industry. Moreover, it is shown that increased intensity of competition can increase the relative profitability of …
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Although the performance effects of multitasking were analyzed intensively in the past, little is known about the impact of the adoption time of multitasking on corporate performance. Possibly, the quantity of the reorganization is crucial and early movers experience a comparative competitive...
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Erster zu sein, ist immer vorteilhaft - diese Sichtweise wird im Kontext von Unternehmen gewöhnlich vertreten. Die akademische Literatur bestätigt diese Annahme jedoch nicht generell. Im Gegenteil, als Erster zu handeln kann auch schädlich für Unternehmen sein. Die vorliegende Studie...
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We present a regression-based generalization of the calendar time portfolio approach which allowsfor the inclusion of continuous and multivariate investor or firm characteristics in the analysis. Ourmethod is simple to apply and it ensures that the statistical results are heteroscedasticity...
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Baker (2002) has demonstrated theoretically that the quality of performance measures used in compensation contracts hinges on two characteristics: noise and distortion. These criteria, though, will only be useful in practice as long as the noise and distortion of a performance measure can be...
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This paper explores performance measurement in incentive plans. Based on theory, we argue that differences in the nature of jobs between blue- and white-collar employees lead to differences in incentive systems. We find that performance measurement for white-collar workers is broader in terms of...
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