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Wirtschaftliche Kosten der Cyberspionage für deutsche Unternehmen: Cybersicherheit als Grundvoraussetzung der digitalen Transformation

Engels, Barbara - 2017

Unternehmen als die größte Bedrohung für deutsche Unternehmen und den Wirtschaftsstandort Deutschland gesehen. Tatsächlich zieht … Technologien kann nur ausgeschöpft werden, wenn Institutio-nen, Unternehmen und Privatpersonen sich auf die Sicherheit ihrer Daten …. Insbesondere die Cyberspionage, also der Diebstahl von relevanten Unternehmensdaten und geistigem Eigentum, macht Unternehmen zu …

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Drivers of productivity in Vietnamese SMEs: The role of management standards and innovation

Calza, Elisa; Goedhuys, Micheline; Trifković, Neda - 2017

Using a rich panel dataset of SMEs active in the manufacturing sector in Viet Nam, this paper investigates the drivers of firm productivity, focusing on the role played by international management standards certification. We develop and test the hypothesis that, controlling for technological...

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Top R&D investors and international knowledge seeking: the role of emerging technologies and technological proximity

Dosso, Mafini; Vezzani, Antonio - 2015

This paper sheds new lights on the internationalization of technological activities of the top corporate R&D investors worldwide. In particular, we provide evidence on the technological factors determining their international R&D location strategies. The empirical analysis is based on the...

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Explaining Growth Differences across Firms: The Interplay between Innovation and Management Practices

Romano, Livio - 2018

This paper provides first empirical evidence of the joint effects that innovation strategies and human resource management practices exert on firm growth. By exploiting unique information from a large sample of Italian manufacturing companies in the very recent years, it shows that investing in...

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Entrepreneurial optimism and creative destruction

Persson, Lars; Seiler, Thomas - 2018

We provide empirical evidence that uncertainty (rather than risk) and optimism are distinctive characteristics of high-impact entrepreneurial firms (recently listed firms) relative to old, incumbent firms. Based on this evidence, we construct an entrepreneurial entry predation model with...

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Coordination under the shadow of career concerns

Koch, Alexander K.; Morgenstern, Albrecht - 2009

To innovate, employees need to develop novel ideas and coordinate with each other to turn these ideas into better products and services. Work outcomes provide signals about employees' abilities to the labor market, and therefore career concerns arise. These can both be 'good' (enhancing...

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Acquisition for Sleep

Norbäck, Pehr-Johan; Olofsson, Charlotta; Persson, Lars - 2020

Within the policy debate, there is a fear that large incumbent firms buy small firms' inventions to ensure that they are not used in the market. We show that such "acquisitions for sleep" can occur if and only if the quality of a process invention is small; otherwise, the entry profit will be...

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Relationships among knowledge-oriented leadership, customer knowledge management, innovation quality and firm performance in SMEs

In: Journal of Innovation & Knowledge (JIK) 7 (2022) 1, pp. 1-10

Drawing upon the literature on knowledge management, leadership, and innovation, this study investigates the possible associations among customer knowledge management, knowledge-oriented leadership, innovation quality, and firm performance in 283 small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in...

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The Scientific Output of a Database on Commercialized Patents

Svensson, Roger - 2020

The purpose of this study is to present a unique database on commercialized patents and to illustrate how it can be used to analyze the commercialization process of patents. The dataset is based on a survey of Swedish patents owned by inventors and small firms with a remarkably high response...

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The Legacies of the Soviet Influence in the 1950s: China's 156 Major Industrial Projects

Jin, Zhangfeng - 2021

This paper investigates whether and how China's adoption of Soviet-aided industrialization programs in the 1950s has affected its long-run innovation. Focusing on 156 major industrial projects aided by the Soviet Union, combined with an instrumental variable approach, I find that the adoption of...

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