The fundamental research question in the present study is whether perceived environmental management practices relate to employees' organizational identification. Specifically, it is hypothesized that this relationship is mediated by employees' environmental attitudes. The corresponding research...

This paper analyses whether strategic motives for patenting influence the characteristics of companies' patent portfolios. We use the number of citations and oppositions to represent these characteristics. The investigation is based on survey and patent data from German companies. We find clear...

This paper analyses whether strategic motives for patenting influence the characteristics of companies' patent portfolios. We use the number of citations and oppositions to represent these characteristics. The investigation is based on survey and patent data from German companies. We find clear...

The following article systematically analyzes the question of how the results of R&D and its protection - or so to say, the technology base of a firm - can influence its market value and profits. Based on theoretical arguments it is hypothesized that large and highly valuable patent portfolios...

This paper investigates the micro-location pattern of innovative and non-innovative firms in Berlin using detailed information on the firms' addresses and their local environment. The study employs a unique, representative panel data set of Berlin-based firms from manufacturing and services...

Es wurde mit den "Transnationalen Patenten" ein neues Konzept zur Bewertung der technologischen Wettbewerbsfähigkeit von Volkswirtschaften vorgestellt, das eine bessere internationale Vergleichbarkeit als mit bisherigen Ansätzen zulässt. Im Gegensatz zu nationalen Anmeldungen oder...

Die Arbeit wurde von der Wirtschaftswissenschaftlichen Fakultät der Universität Freiburg mit dem Friedrich August von Hayek-Preis 1996 ausgezeichnet. Das Informations- und Kommunikationszeitalter löst neue Risiken für die Datensicherheit von Kommunikationsverbindungen und damit...

Economic research emphasises the role of increasing returns to scale and critical mass in research and technology development. This suggests that countries benefit from specialising in certain technologies and can thereby bundle available resources. Using the example of the Exzellenzstrategie...

Previous research has expressed concerns about firms engaging less in basic research. We contribute to this debate by studying trends in the scientific publishing activities of firms located in Germany. Our results do not confirm a declining trend in raw numbers with numbers indicating that...