this paper is an observation-based analysis conducted by visiting selected paper mills in Finland, the U.S., Germany and … relatively similar firms lends credence to the insights provided by Denrell, Fang and Winter (2003) and Zott (2003), among others … innovative activity in traditional industries such as pulp and paper. -- incremental innovation, ICT investments, modernization …

unclear, however, if the employment opportunities of the majority of the labour force in Germany-employees with a degree from … the dual apprenticeship system-increase or not. In addition, estimation and data problems are addressed in a topical and … rich data set. The paper shows that innovation expenditures and investments in information and communication technologies …

and direction of innovation in that software development is a core part of innovation activities in firms across a wide …-level survey data on the frequency and nature of software development among firms in Sweden, matched with the Community Innovation … Survey (CIS). We find robust evidence supporting a software-bias in innovation in that software development is associated …

paper analyses the interdependencies between labour demand for high and low skilled employees, innovation activities and …

on a repeated cross-section of Italian manufacturing firms for the period 1998-2003, we develop a two-stage approach … the optimal organizational governance perform less well in terms of process innovation than more aligned competitors, but … (ii) that misalignment has a positive effect on product innovation. However, this counterintuitive result is strongly …

This paper addresses the key determinants of merger failure, in particular the role of innovation (post … introduce a model of process innovation where merged firms exibit intra-merger spillover of knowledge under different market … that post-merger innovation performance, in particular with large spillover, increases the probability of survival, while …