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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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Government as Venture Capitalist? The Role of Organizational Structure and Contract Design in Germany's Privatization Process
Dyck, I. J. Alexander; Wruck, Karen H. - 1999
problems that arose during Germany's privatization process. We find that German officials structured organizations and … contracts in a way that made credible the government's commitment to rapid privatization. This credibility served to protect the … culminated with the creation of another set of independent organizations called Management KGs, to which the Treuhand outsourced …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014046741
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Betriebliche Mitbestimmung im Spiegel der jüngeren Forschung
Kotthoff, Hermann - In: Industrielle Beziehungen 20 (2013) 4, pp. 323-341
Die Institution Betriebsrat zeichnet sich angesichts des starken ökonomischen und technisch-organisatorischen Wandels in den letzten zwei Jahrzehnten durch eine relativ hohe Kontinuität aus. Die Betriebsratsforschung hat in dieser Zeit einen Aufschwung erfahren. Neue Fragestellungen wurden...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011998691
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Tariff rates, offshoring and productivity : evidence from German and Austrian firm-level data
Hansen, Thorsten - 2010
This paper studies the impact of trade liberalization in terms of tarif cuts within the Eastern European enlargement on German and Austrian firm productivity. Unique matching of data from 1994 to 2003 suggests that tarif reductions raise parent firm productivity significantly. A ten percentage...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003952123
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Exports and productivity : an empirical analysis of German and Austrian firm-level performance
Hansen, Thorsten - 2010
This paper studies the relationship between export activities and firm-level productivity. Unique matching of German and Austrian micro data from 1994 to 2003 suggests that exporters are more productive by around 40 percent compared with non-exporters. Moreover, beside other analysis techniques,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003952127
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Exports and productivity : an empirical analysis of German and Austrian firm-level performance
Hansen, Thorsten - 2010
This paper studies the relationship between export activities and firm-level productivity. Unique matching of German and Austrian micro data from 1994 to 2003 suggests that exporters are more productive by around 40 percent compared with non-exporters. Moreover, beside other analysis techniques,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003953959
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008660430
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Outsourcing and firm-level performance
Görzig, Bernd; Stephan, Andreas - 2002 - This version: 15 October 2002
Using firm-level panel data from the German cost structure survey over the period 1992 to 2000, our empirical analysis shows that firms that increased material inputs relative to internal labor costs performed better in terms of gross operating surplus than other firms. However, firms that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011437001
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Productivity and Distribution Effects of Codetermination in an Efficient Bargaining
Kraft, Kornelius - 2017
Codetermination can be regarded as an extreme regulatory intervention of the legislator in the labor market which might affect the efficiency of production and the bargaining power of labor. Based on a model that covers both efficient bargaining and employment bargaining a simple equation is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012944885