establishment data on various aspects of training practices and innovation activities in Germany, the paper examines the degree … works councils as an instrument for a firm's total training activities that correlate with innovation, and weak support when … we consider only generalized training and innovation. Finally, no significant relation is found between training …

This study analyzes the relationship between the specialization of a region in certain industries and the efficiency of … the region in generating new knowledge. The efficiency measure is constructed by relating regional R&D input and output …. An inversely u-shaped relationship is found between regional specialization and R&D efficiency, indicating the presence …

Business codes are a widely used management instrument. Research into the effectiveness of business codes has, however …

increment of the punctuality and efficiency of the railway services. The plans produced according to the alternative production …

A principal-agent model is formulated to capture the efficiency of cooperatives with a member CEO and cooperatives with …

participants seem to care more for efficiency than for equity. In three-person generosity games equal agreement payoffs for two of … - efficiency seeking. Our treatments rely on a 2x3 factorial design differing in whether the responder or the third (dummy) player …

We use a two-person public goods experiment to distinguish between efficiency and fairness as possible motivations for … results indicate that fairness (or inequality aversion) is more influential than efficiency in driving behavior. …

function with a time-variable stochastic efficiency term we show that positive scale and scope effects from a merger arise only … efficiency as the acquiring firms. For the post-merger phase, our empirical results provide no evidence for efficiency gains from …