In diesem Beitrag berichten wir über die Resultate einer Studie, die auf Daten für ca. 1900 Firmen basiert. Diese stammen aus einer im Jahr 2010 durchgeführten Erhebung bei einer repräsentativen Stichprobe von Unternehmen der Sektoren Industrie, Bau und Dienstleis - tungen (DL). Der...

In weiten Teilen der Wirtschaft hat sich ein «neues Unternehmensmodell» durchgesetzt, das im Kern auf der Kombination von drei Elementen beruht: a) intensive Nutzung von Informations- und Kommunikationstechnologien (IKT), b) vermehrt partizipative Formen der Arbeitsorganisation, c) Einsatz...

In this paper, the parent firms’ choice of FDI locations is analyzed based on a unique firm-level dataset for Swiss MNEs. The data allows a detailed characterization of parent companies, their foreign subsidiaries and the two-way trade flows between parent companies and foreign affiliates. In...

The aim of this paper is to investigate the differences between specific motives of R&D investment in foreign locations with respect to the factors influencing the likelihood of foreign R&D and to the impact of foreign presence on the parent firms' innovativeness and productivity. An econometric...

The aim of this article is to investigate the differences between specific motives of R&D investment in foreign locations with respect to: (i) the factors influencing the likelihood of foreign R&D and (ii) the impact of foreign presence on the parent firms' innovativeness and productivity. An...

The aim of this article is to investigate the differences between specific motives of R&D investment in foreign locations with respect to the factors influencing the likelihood of foreign R&D and to the impact of foreign presence on the parent firms’ innovativeness and productivity. An...

This book focuses on technological policies, in other words all public interventions intended to influence the intensity, composition and direction of technological innovations within a given entity (region, country or group of countries). The editor has gathered together many of the leading...

The paper aims at a joint analysis of inter-firm and intra-firm diffusion of technology, taking as an example E-selling and E-purchasing. The analysis is based on an encompassing model of diffusion, drawn from the literature, which is extended by considering technology-specific obstacles and...