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The Adoption and Diffusion of OrganizationalInnovation: Evidence for the U.S. Economy
Lynch, Lisa M. - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
States during the 1990’s, I examine the incidenceand intensity of organizational innovation and the factors associated with … investments inorganizational innovation... …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005862804
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The Effect of Product Market Competition onJob Instability
Aparicio Fenoll, Ainhoa - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011
This paper assesses the impact of product market competition on job instability as proxied bythe use of fixed-term labor contracts. Using both worker data from the Spanish Labor ForceSurvey and firm data from the Spanish Business Strategies Survey, I show that job instabilityrises with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009360527
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Feedback and Incentives : Experimental Evidence
Eriksson, Tor; Poulsen, Anders; Villeval, Marie-Claire - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008
This paper experimentally investigates the impact of different pay and relative performance information policies on employee effort. We explore three information policies: No feedback about relative performance, feedback given halfway through the production period, and continuously updated...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005860221
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The Knowledge Spillover Theory of Entrepreneurship and Foreign Direct Investment
Acs, Zoltán J.; Brooksbank, David J.; O’Gorman, Colm; … - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2007
We explore if the Knowledge Spillover Theory of Entrepreneurship, applied to FDI, provides at least a partial … explanation for the greater emergence of recent knowledge-based entrepreneurship in Ireland compared with Wales. In order to … examine how FDI and entrepreneurship policy in these two regions might have influenced the levels of knowledge …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005864527
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The Knowledge Spillover Theory of Entrepreneurship
Acs, Zoltán J.; Audretsch, David B.; Braunerhjelm, Pontus - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2005
entrepreneurship literature is that opportunities are exogenous, the most prevalent theory of innovation in the economics literature …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005864991
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The Impact of Geographic Differences inHuman Capital on Service Firm Formation Rates
Acs, Zoltán J.; Armington, Catherine - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2004
important mechanism is the spillover of relevant knowledge... …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005865252
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Technological Opportunities, Absorptive Capacities, and Innovation
Becker, Wolfgang; Peters, Jürgen - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre <Augsburg> - 2000
The aim of this paper is to analyze the effects of technological opportunities on the innovation activities of firms …, depending on their absorptive capacities. The importance and impacts of the ability of firms to use external knowledge sources … were inquired especially for external knowledge stemming from scientific research.... …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005840314
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Supplier and Buyer Market Power, Appropriability, and Innovation Activities : Evidence for the German Automobile Industry
Peters, Jürgen - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre <Augsburg> - 1998
Recent econometric studies only emphasize the role of longterm demand expectations and technological capability. They neglect the impact of buyer market structure on innovative efforts of input suppliers....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005840316
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Technological Opportunities, Academic Research, and Innovation Activities in the German Automobile Supply Industry
Peters, Jürgen; Becker, Wolfgang - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre <Augsburg> - 1998
innovation activities of firms in the German automobile supplyindustry are investigated. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005840318
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Hochschulkooperationen und betriebliche Innovationsaktivitäten : Ergebnisse aus der deutschen Automobilzulieferindustrie
Peters, Jürgen; Becker, Wolfgang - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre <Augsburg> - 1998
Vorliegendes Arbeitspapier untersucht die Kooperationsneigung der deutschen Automobilzulieferindustrie.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005840319