Almost two millennia ago, Archimedes explained that the shortest distance between two points is a straight line. That fundamental principle has been lost in the strange, meandering design of the nation’s pharmaceutical supply system. The result, as Archimedes would have predicted, is...

Path to Sustainability: Technological Innovation and Digital Economy as Main Drivers of Green Economic Development -- Corporate Social Responsibility in the Supermarket Sector: Evidence from Vietnam -- Factors Affecting Electronic Word of Mouth on the Acceptance of Digital Banking: Empirical...

Purpose: The study explores how forces of disruption and innovation affect the printing industry in an emerging market context and how incumbent firms respond to the challenges associated with these forces. Design; methodology approach: The research is an exploratory study based on qualitative...

Der vorliegende Beitrag erörtert die wichtigsten Herausforderungen, die sich durch die Digitalisierung stellen. Analysiert werden die Fragen, inwiefern die die Digitalisierung zu einer Monopolisierung von Märkten führt, wie das Kartellrecht nach der 9. GWBNovelle diese Befürchtungen...

This paper proposes to explain the productivity growth slowdown with the poaching of disruptive inventors by firms these inventors threaten with their research. I build an endogenous growth model with incremental and disruptive innovation and an inventor labor market where this defensive...

This paper proposes a model that explains both recently documented facts about the decline of disruptive innovation and the decline in productivity growth as the result of large firms trying to monopolize technologies by poaching inventors from disruptive activities. To come to this conclusion,...

We investigate differences in labor demand between German automotive firms specializing in green propulsion technology and those with a focus on combustion engines. To this end, we introduce a firm-level labor demand index based on the near-universe of online job postings and firms’ patent...

Peer to peer (P2P) lending in Indonesia has been growing rapidly, therefore there is the potential for disruptive innovation processes in the financial sector. The aim of this study is to examine the impact of the growth of P2P lending on the growth of bank lending for micro, small and medium...