Building on the notion of general and specific human capital proposed by Becker (1962), the paper highlights the importance of employee training practices undertaken in firms as an important tool for human resource and knowledge management and focuses on the role of works councils as a specific...

We study what makes a research grant application successful in terms of ability, type of research, experience, and demographics of the applicants. But our main objective is to investigate whether public funding organizations support the teams that are most likely to undertake transformative or...

Radikale Produktinnovationen verändern bestehende Marktstrukturen und können damit Unternehmen und deren Fortbestehen maßgeblich beeinflussen. So können Produktinnovationen von Wettbewerbern einerseits die Existenz des eigenen Unternehmens gefährden, die Verfolgung innovativer Ideen jedoch...