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Corporate hierarchies under employee representation
Belloc, Filippo; Burdín, Gabriel; Landini, Fabio - 2020
This paper analyzes whether workplace employee representation (ER) affects the design of firm hierarchies. We rationalize the role of ER within a knowledge-based model of hierarchies, where the firm's choice of hierarchical layers depends on the trade-off between communication and knowledge...
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Empirical essays in the economics of ageing and the economics of innovation
Reinkowski, Janina - 2013
independent from each other: the economics of ageing and the economics of innovation. The first three chapters cover the impact of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011742990
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Mapping innovative clusters in national innovation systems
Spielkamp, Alfred; Vopel, Katrin - 1998
innovation systems, highlight the outline conditions for innovations in Germany, focusing above all on the basis of innovations … information flows and cooperation patterns within the innovation system of Germany. In the summary at the end of this paper we …In the following paragraphs we will discuss the "mapping of innovative clusters in national innovation systems". For …
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The performance of German firms in the business-related service sectors : a dynamic analysis
Nguyen-Van Phu; Kaiser, Ulrich; Laisney, François - 2000
We analyze the performance of firms in the German business-related services sector. A quarterly business survey provides the panel data base of our study. Firm performance is measured by the survey respondents' ordinal indication of their changes in total sales. We use a firstorder Markov chain...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011444722
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The performance of German firms in the business-related service sectors : a dynamic analysis
Nguyen van Phu - 2000
We analyze the performance of firms in the German business-related services sector. A quarterly business survey provides the panel data base of our study. Firm performance is measured by the survey respondents' ordinal indication of their changes in total sales. We use a firstorder Markov chain...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013428340
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Intangibles, can they explain the dispersion in return rates?
Görzig, Bernd; Gornig, Martin - 2010
unobserved intangible capital. Using EUKLEED, a comprehensive firm level data base for Germany, this theoretical preposition is … the cause for higher return rates in the sense of both the monopoly-based and the innovation-based explanations is not …
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Temporary agency work and the user firm’s productivity : first evidence from German Panel Data
Hirsch, Boris; Müller, Steffen - 2010
This paper investigates the relationship between the use of temporary agency work and the user firm's productivity. We hypothesise that modest use enhances numerical flexibility and thus productivity, while excessive use mirrors lowproductivity strategies utilising less social and human capital...
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The gender gap in international trade : female-run firms and the exporter productivity premium
Krenz, Astrid - 2019
premium of female-run firms in Germany. The results show that female-run firms gain a higher exporter-productivity premium …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011995451
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Innovationen ohne Forschung und Entwicklung : eine Untersuchung zu Unternehmen, die ohne eigene FuE-Tätigkeit neue Produkte und Prozesse einführen
Rammer, Christian; Köhler, Christian; Murmann, Martin; … - 2010
Insgesamt gab es in Deutschland im Jahr 2008 über 72.000 Innovatoren ohne eigene FuE. Ihnen standen rund 54 … die betrachteten Jahre hinweg weitgehend stabil. Ihre Bedeutung für das Innovationsgeschehen in Deutschland ist gleichwohl … nicht vernachlässigbar. 14 % des gesamten Neuproduktumsatzes in Deutschland im Jahr 2008 und immerhin 12 % des Umsatzes mit …
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