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We investigate whether outside board memberships of CEOs signal expertise or entrenchment. The analysis is based on panel data of the largest German companies covering the period from 1996 to 2008. Supporting the entrenchment hypothesis, our analysis reveals that firms having a CEO with one or...
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This study examines how industry-specific managerial experience affects firms’ innovation performance in the context of … providing knowledge about how to cope with institutional shortfalls potentially hampering the commercial success of new products. …
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impact of outsourcing on firms' innovation performance as well as labour productivity. The integral investigation of the … determining factors as well as the impact of outsourcing on innovation and productivity based on the same data in a comparative …
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question we examine empirically refers to the possibility that an economic crisis could affect innovation performance through … associated with ICT-enabled innovation performance. This is the third research question of this paper. Our study is based on firm … decreased due to the crisis. Further, statistically significant negative relationship between ICT-enabled product innovation and …
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To what extent does high-growth entrepreneurship depend on skilled human capital? We estimate the impact of the inflow of inventors into a region on the founding of high-growth firms, instrumenting mobility with the county-level share of millions of inventor surnames in the 1940 U.S. Census....
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Human resource management (HRM) practices are generally expected to stimulate a firm’s innovation performance. However …’s innovation activities and different types of HRM practices we find that primarily new workplace organization practices seem to … enhance a firm’s innovation activities. Flexible practices of working time management and incentive payment schemes show only …
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To what extent does high-growth entrepreneurship depend on skilled human capital? We estimate the impact of the inflow of inventors into a region on the founding of high-growth firms, instrumenting mobility with the county-level share of millions of inventor surnames in the 1940 U.S. Census....
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