complementarities which may arise when cross-functional teams are used in different elements of the innovation process in UK and German … more uniform in the UK than in Germany. The most uniform complementarities are between product design and development and …Cross-functional teams play a potentially important part in the innovation process enabling knowledge sharing, the …

existence of complementarities in the use of external networking between stages of the innovation process in a sample of UK and … complementarities in the case of Germany, with the exception of the product engineering stage. By contrast, the UK exhibits generally …This paper contributes to the developing literature on complementarities in organizational design. We test for the …

. Based on e-business watch data for EU-4 (Germany, France, Italy and the United Kingdom) we find that the actual use of … empirical analysis based on Community Innovation survey (CIS 3) data confirm the hypothesis that the introduction of business …

for the Canada-U.S. productivity and income gaps; the importance of skills for innovation and productivity; the diffusion …

innovative and unchanged products is developed and estimated using comparable firm-level data from France, Germany, Spain and the … UK. Results show that displacement effects induced by productivity growth in the production of old products are large …