The aim of this paper is to analyse the effects of knowledge management on the innovation success of firms in Germany. We look at innovative firms in the period from 2000 to 2002 taken from the Mannheim Innovation Panel and estimate the effect of collaborative measures of knowledge management on...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to uncover factors that influence a firm's decision to implement knowledge management practices. The focus is on knowledge management practices implemented to increase collaboration on innovation activities between actors within a firm....

Zusammenfassung In der vorliegenden Studie wird mit Hilfe der nicht-parametrischen DEA-Methode die relative Effizienz von representativ ausgewählten Stromversorgungsunternehmen in Deutschland bestimmt. Die DEA erlaubt es, auch nicht marktfähige In- und Outputfaktoren in die Analyse...

Summary In this paper we add new results to the investigation of productivity levels rather than productivity changes, as proposed by Hall/Jones (1996, 1997, 1999). To obtain measures of relative productivity levels we depart from traditional growth accounting and calculate the Malmquist index...