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Why IT matters: An empirical study of e-business usage, innovation, and firm performance

Koellinger, Philipp - 2005

The article argues that IT continues to have strategic relevance for companies because it enables innovation. A … conceptual link between the adoption of IT and innovation is established. This conceptual link allows a market-based, economic … explanation for variations in IT payoffs among firms: The successful adoption of new IT leads to innovation. Depending on the …

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The German Retirement Benefit Formula: Drawbacks and Alternatives

Kifmann, Mathias; Breyer, Friedrich - 2003

In this paper we identify a number of objectionable features of the German retirement benefit formula. We show that groups of insureds with higher than average life expectancy, in particular high-income groups, are subsidized by the rest of the membership because the formula neglects differences...

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Nested stochastic possibility frontiers with heterogeneous capital inputs

Erber, Georg; Madlener, Reinhard - 2007

This paper studies the productivity impact of heterogeneous capital inputs of selected EU-15 member countries and of the U.S. at the macroeconomic level. The stochastic possibility frontiers approach of Battese and Coelli (1992) applied here is used to identify neutralities or non-neutralities...

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Explaining export success in the UK and German medical equipment industry

Anderton, Bob; Schultz, Siegfried - 1999

particular emphasis on product quality, innovation and skills. The firm-level case studies support the conclusions arising from … and innovation arising from UK R&D is of a high but, compared to their German counterparts, UK firms often fail to …

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Survey of photovoltaic industry and policy in Germany and China

Grau, Thilo; Huo, Molin; Neuhoff, Karsten - 2011

and R&D support measures, and we survey the industrial actors they can encourage to pursue innovation. While deployment … innovation incentives, and R&D support has been comparatively weak. The paper concludes with a discussion of the opportunities …

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An investigation into the 1999 collapse of the Brazilian Real

Saqib, Omar F. - 2002

This study argues that the political considerations were an important factor behind the crisis of the Brazilian real in January 1999. The divided coalition government and a president facing impending elections eschewed the correction of external misalignments and the fiscal austerity at a time...

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Unionisation Structures and Innovation Incentives

Wey, Christian; Haucap, Justus - 2004

This paper examines how different unionisation structures affect firms' innovation incen- tives and industry employment …: "Decentralisation" carries higher investment incentives than "coordination". Labour market policy can spur innovation by decentralising …

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Innovation Clusters : Combining Physical and Virtual Links

Preissl, Brigitte - 2003

Innovation is increasingly seen as a collective action which involves many different actors operating in a cluster … important tool to study innovation, but the globalisation of companies and markets and the specific requirements of innovation … and virtual cluster links improves access to essential resources in innovation. An examples taken from the automotive …

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Neuere Entwicklungen in der industrieökonomischen Forschung und die aktuelle Berichterstattung über die technologische Leistungsfähigkeit Deutschlands

Haid, Alfred; Münter, Markus Thomas - 1999

[Einleitung] Im Auftrag des Bundesministeriums für Bildung und Forschung werden seit Jahren 'Berichte zur technologischen Leistungsfähigkeit Deutschlands' vorgelegt, die den Strukturwandel in Richtung wissensintensiver Wirtschaftszweige und Tätigkeiten im zeitlichen und internationalen...

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How Strong Buyers Spur Upstream Innovation

Inderst, Roman; Wey, Christian - 2005

We challenge the view that the presence of powerful buyers stifles suppliers´ incentives to innovate. Following Katz (1987), we model buyer power as buyers´ ability to substitute away from a given supplier and isolate several effects that support the opposite view, namely that the presence of...

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