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The effect of industry, region and time on new business survival : a multi-dimensional analysis

Fritsch, Michael; Brixy, Udo; Falck, Oliver - 2004

We analyze the effect of industry, region and time on new-business survival rates by means of a multi …-dimensional approach. The data relate to West German districts in the 1983-2000 period. The survival chances of start-ups tend to be … rather pronounced positive influence on survival rates, while the relationship between the nationwide development of the …

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Produktivgenossenschaften : utopische Idee oder realistische Perspektive?

Kramer, Jost W. - 2008

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German Universities as State-Sponsored Co-Operatives

Dilger, Alexander - 2007

Most universities in Germany are public firms but they have many properties of co-operatives. The most important thereof are described and analysed together with the characteristics of state-sponsorship. The real companions of the university as a co-operation are its professors. The same is true...

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Worker Representatives

Budde, Julian; Dohmen, Thomas; Jäger, Simon; Trenkle, Simon - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

We study the descriptive and substantive representation of workers through worker representatives, focusing on the selection of German works council representatives and their impact on worker outcomes. Becoming a professional representative leads to substantial wage gains for the elected,...

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The Within-Distribution Business Cycle Dynamics of German Firms

Döpke, Jörg - 2016

We analyse stylised facts for Germany's business cycle at the firm level. Based on longitudinal firm-level data from the Bundesbank's balance sheet statistics covering, on average, 55,000 firms per year from 1971 to 1998, we estimate transition probabilities of a firm in a certain real sales...

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Export Behavior and Firm Productivity in German Manufacturing : A Firm-Level Analysis

Arnold, Jens Matthias; Hussinger, Katrin - 2005

This paper examines the causal relationship between productivity and exporting in German manufacturing. We find a causal link from high productivity to presence in foreign markets, as postulated by a recent literature on international trade with heterogeneous firms. We apply a matching technique...

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Firm Level Implications of Early Stage Venture Capital Investment - an Empirical Investigation

Engel, Dirk; Keilbach, Max - 2015

The paper analyses the impact of venture capital finance on growth and innovation activities of young German firms. Among other variables, our panel of firm data includes data on venture capital funding and patent applications. With a statistical matching procedure we draw an adequate control...

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Successful Non-Growing Companies

Liesen, Andrea - 2015

Little light has been shed on the functioning of business in potential post-growth economies. With this paper, we aim to expand discussions on post-growth economies to the company level and suggest one possible way to connect existing management practise with the fact that, in order to stay...

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Strategic Orientation and Product Innovation : Exploring a Decompositional Approach

Spanjol, Jelena; Mühlmeier, Silke; Tomczak, Torsten - 2014

While a considerable body of research examines the strategic orientation-innovation relationship, findings in that literature have been mixed. This article calls attention to an under-investigated problem: the composite, multi-dimensional conceptualization and measurement of most strategic...

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Favoritism of Agents - the Case of Referees' Home Bias

Sutter, Matthias; Kocher, Martin G. - 2003

We study the behavior of football (soccer) referees in the German Bundesliga. Referees are requested to act as impartial agents. However, they may be tempted to allocate benefits and rewards in a biased way. Agency theory has long neglected this form of malfeasance of economic agents, but has...

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