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Small firm innovation performance and employee involvement
Andries, Petra; Czarnitzki, Dirk - 2012
It is known that small firms rely mainly on the CEO’s individual knowledge for developing innovations. Recent work suggests that this approach is inefficient since it underutilizes other employees’ knowledge. We study to which extent using CEOs, managers and non-managerial employees’ ideas...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009509658
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Geographical origins and economic consequences of language structures
Galor, Oded; Özak, Ömar; Sarid, Assaf - 2016
This research explores the economic causes and consequences of language structures. It advances the hypothesis and establishes empirically that variations in pre-industrial geographical characteristics that were conducive to higher return to agricultural investment, larger gender gap in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011523472
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Gender gaps in education
Bertocchi, Graziella; Bozzano, Monica - 2019
This chapter reviews the growing body of research in economics which concentrates on the education gender gap and its … roughly goes from 1850 to the 1940s and documents the deep determinants of the early phase of female education expansion … contemporaneous gender gaps in education, from the 1950s to the present day, accounting for several alternative measures of attainment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012130053
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Geographical origins and economic consequences of language structures
Galor, Oded; Özak, Ömer; Sarid, Assaf - 2016
This research explores the economic causes and consequences of language structures. It advances the hypothesis and establishes empirically that variations in pre-industrial geographical characteristics that were conducive to higher return to agricultural investment, larger gender gap in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011581726
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What explains Vietnam's exceptional performance in education relative to other countries? : analysis of the 2012 and 2015 Pisa data
Dang, Hai-Anh H.; Glewwe, Paul; Khoa Vu; Lee, Jongwook - 2021
Despite being the poorest or second poorest participant, Vietnam performed much better than all other developing countries, and even ahead of wealthier countries such as the U.S. and the U.K., on the 2012 and 2015 PISA assessments. We provide a rigorous investigation of Vietnam's strong...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012517550
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The importance of equity finance for R&D activity : are there differences between young and old companies?
Müller, Elisabeth; Zimmermann, Volker - 2006
information on almost 6000 German SMEs from a company survey. Using the intensity of banking competition at the district level as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010365872
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The effects of knowledge management on innovative success : an empirical analysis of German firms
Cantner, Uwe; Joel, Kristin; Schmidt, Tobias - 2009
The aim of this paper is to analyse the effects of knowledge management on the innovation success of firms in Germany. Using a matching procedure on data from the German Innovation Survey of 2003 (“Mannheim Innovation Panel”), we pair firms applying knowledge management with twin firms with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003857677
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The effects of knowledge management on innovative success : an empirical analysis of German firms
Cantner, Uwe; Joel, Kristin; Schmidt, Tobias - 2009
The aim of this paper is to analyse the effects of knowledge management on the innovation success of firms in Germany. Using a matching procedure on data from the German Innovation Survey of 2003 (“Mannheim Innovation Panel”), we pair firms applying knowledge management with twin firms with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003857910
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Does the use of worker flows improve the analysis of establishment turnover? : evidence from German administrative data
Hethey-Maier, Tanja; Schmieder, Johannes F. - 2013
Economists have long been interested in analyzing entries and exits of establishments. In many countries administrative datasets provide an excellent source for detailed analysis on a fine and disaggregate level. However, administrative datasets are not without problems: restructuring and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010199016
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Linkages between technology choice and exporting : evidence from Argentina
Schmidt, Gabriela; Trofimenko, Natalia - 2010
This paper aids our understanding of the link between innovation and exporting behavior by detailing how firms may purposefully decide on the source country for the imported innovation and the market that they ultimately serve. We argue that firms who invest in the state-of-the-art technologies...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003956230