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Empirical determinants of employee resistance against innovations

Zwick, Thomas - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2000

representative evidence on the impact of the economic environment on employee opposition against the implementation of an innovation … innovation is an increase in employee performance, the firm experiences higher resistance, while resistance is lower in firms … aiming at increasing the product range by the innovation. Profit and turn over expectations of the firm and the outside …

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Green innovations and organizational change: Making better use of environmental technology

Hottenrott, Hanna; Rexhäuser, Sascha; Veugelers, Reinhilde - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2012

The literature on within-firm organizational change and productivity suggests that firms can make more efficient use of certain technologies if complementary forms of organization are adopted. This issue may be of even greater importance for the case of greenhouse gas (GHG) abatement...

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New technologies and the demand for medium qualified labour in Germany

Jacobebbinghaus, Peter; Zwick, Thomas - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2001

rich data set. The paper shows that innovation expenditures and investments in information and communication technologies …

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Separating wheat and chaff: age-specific staffing strategies and innovative performance at the firm level

Frosch, Katharina; Göbel, Christian; Zwick, Thomas - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2011

establishments. Finally, we do not find evidence that a youth-centred human resource strategy (always) fosters innovation. …

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Employment changes in environmentally innovative firms

Rennings, Klaus; Ziegler, Andreas; Zwick, Thomas - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2001

prone to increase employment, while firms that want to slash costs by innovation and compete by soft factors decrease …

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The employment impact of cleaner production on the firm level: empirical evidence from a survey in five European countries

Rennings, Klaus; Zwick, Thomas - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2001

This paper analyses the determinants of employment reactions of firms when environmental innovations have been carried out. It differentiates hereby between employment increases and decreases. The data stem from a telephone survey covering more than 1500 firms in five European countries that...

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Workers into Managers: Developing Leadership Competence of Production Unit Managers

Rappe, Christoph; Zwick, Thomas - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2005

This study analyses the competence gaps of lower-level managers in a typical manufacturing plant in Germany that had recently introduced a teamwork structure. Results indicate that the managers have difficulties with their new leadership-related tasks. Higher levels of leadership competence are...

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Erfolgsabhängige Vergütung: Ein sicherer Weg zur Steigerung der Leistung von Top-Managern?

Zwick, Thomas; Wolf, Elke; Beblo, Miriam - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2002

Dieser Beitrag zeigt auf Basis einer Befragung von Führungskräften eines internationalen Konzerns, unter welchen Bedingungen eine erfolgsabhängige Vergü-tung einen positiven Motivationseffekt erzielen kann. Neben einer positiven Ent-wicklung der Bonusauszahlung können weitere Faktoren die...

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Works Councils and the Productivity Impact of Direct Employee Participation

Zwick, Thomas - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2003

This paper measures the productivity impact of management-led participative establishment practices. On the basis of a representative German establishment data set, the IAB establishment panel, the study finds that the presence of team-work, a reduction of hierarchies and autonomous work groups...

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Reassessing the Impact of High Performance Workplaces

Zwick, Thomas; Wolf, Elke - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2002

High performance workplace practices were extolled as an efficient means to increase firm productivity. The empirical evidence is disputed, however. To assess the productivity effects of a broad variety of measures, we simultaneously account for both unobserved heterogeneity and endogeneity...

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