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Innovation and the International Firm Structure: Theory and Evidence from German Firm-Level Data
Hansen, Thorsten - 2010
This paper studies the impact of innovation on the organizational structure. The theoretical framework predicts that a larger parental pool of knowledge raises the probability of offshoring. This holds in a national as well as an international context. However, when the producer loses...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010334032
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Innovation and the International Firm Structure: Theory and Evidence from German Firm-Level Data
Hansen, Thorsten - 2010
This paper studies the impact of innovation on the organizational structure. The theoretical framework predicts that a larger parental pool of knowledge raises the probability of oshoring. This holds in a national as well as an international context. However, when the producer loses territorial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010427568
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Innovation and the international firm structure : theory and evidence from German firm-level data
Hansen, Thorsten - 2010
This paper studies the impact of innovation on the organizational structure. The theoretical framework predicts that a larger parental pool of knowledge raises the probability of oshoring. This holds in a national as well as an international context. However, when the producer loses territorial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003952118
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Innovation and the international firm structure : theory and evidence from German firm-level data
Hansen, Thorsten - 2010
This paper studies the impact of innovation on the organizational structure. The theoretical framework predicts that a larger parental pool of knowledge raises the probability of offshoring. This holds in a national as well as an international context. However, when the producer loses...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003953947
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Complementarities in Corporate Governance: Ownership Concentration, Capital Structure, Monitoring and Pecuniary Incentives
Heinrich, Ralph P. - 2000
The paper shows that, as owners accumulate larger stakes and hence become less risk-tolerant, their incentives to monitor management are attenuated because monitoring shifts some of the firm's risk from management to owners. This counterbalances the positive effect which more concentrated...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010260562
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Multitasking and subjective performance evaluations : theory and evidence from a field experiment in a bank
Manthei, Kathrin; Sliwka, Dirk - 2018
We study the incentive effects of grating supervisors access to objective performance information when agents work on multiple tasks. We first analyze a formal model showing that incentives are lower powered when supervisors have no access to objective measures but assess performance...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011871952
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Contracting out temporary help services in Germany
Jahn, Elke J.; Ochel, Wolfgang - 2005
Since 2003 the German Public Employment Service (PES) has been experimenting with the contracting out of various services. One of the new labour market programmes is the Personnel Service Agencies, which provide client firms with jobseekers on a temporary assignment basis and are responsible for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261359
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Contracting Out Temporary Help Services in Germany
Jahn, Elke J. - 2006
Since 2003 the German Public Employment Service (PES) has been experimenting with the contracting out of various services. One of the new labour market programmes is the Personnel Service Agencies, which provide client firms with jobseekers on a temporary assignment basis and are responsible for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012783581
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Tax compliance costs : a business administration perspective
Eichfelder, Sebastian; Schorn, Michael - 2009
technology, simplified cash accounting or outsourcing compliance activities to tax advisers, private businesses have a set of … could reduce their compliance cost burden by a higher degree of outsourcing tax processes. In contrast, we find no … administration ; administration strategy ; business strategy ; outsourcing ; contracting out ; e-filing ; electronic data interchange …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003825011
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ICT and global sourcing : evidence for German manufacturing and service firms
Rasel, Fabienne - 2015
This paper analyses the relevance of information and communication technologies (ICT) for firms' probability of global sourcing of inputs. Using firm-level data from Germany in 2009, which include mainly small and medium-sized firms, the empirical analysis differentiates between manufacturing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011418739