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Measuring knowledge spillovers in manufacturing and services: an empirical assesssment of alternative approaches
Kaiser, Ulrich - 1999
knowledge spillovers are unmeasurable, a 'goodness of fit' measure is constructed using innovation survey data. It turns out … measures constructed from innovation survey data appear to work reasonably well while measures of the Euclidean technological …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013428289
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Employee performance and mental well-being : the mitigating effects of transformational leadership during crisis
Czura, Kristina; Englmaier, Florian; Ho, Hoa; Spantig, Lisa - 2023
The positive role of transformational leadership on productivity and mental wellbeing has long been established. Transformational leadership behavior may be particularly suited to navigate times of crisis which are characterized by high levels of complexity and uncertainty. We exploit...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014495739
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A simple game-theoretical framework for studying R&D expenditures and R&D cooperation
Kaiser, Ulrich - 2001
This paper derives a three stage Cournot duopoly game for research collaboration, research expenditures and product market competition. The amount of knowledge firms can absorb is made dependent on their own research efforts, e.g. firms' absorptive capacity is treated as an endogenous variable....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013428405
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The impact of the introduction of the Euro on firms' expectations concerning export behavior, product innovation and foreign competition : an empirical assessment of the German bus...
Kaiser, Ulrich; Müller, Claudia - 1998
in their expectations that the Euro will increase export activity and product innovation, but significantly more East …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011622467
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Research cooperation and research expenditures with endogenous absorptive capacity : theory and microeconometric evidence for the German service sector
Kaiser, Ulrich - 2000
collaborate in R&D is increasing in R&D productivity. The key findings of the theoretical model are tested using German innovation … survey data for the service sector. A simultaneous model for cooperation choice and innovation expenditures shows that R …&D cooperation has a weakly significant positive effect on innovation expenditures. The empirical results broadly support the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013428320
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The efficacy of tournaments for non-routine team tasks
Englmaier, Florian; Grimm, Stefan; Grothe, Dominik; … - 2023
Tournaments are often used to improve performance in innovation contexts. Tournaments provide monetary incentives but …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014495030
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Microfinance loan officers before and during Covid-19 : evidence from India
Czura, Kristina; Englmaier, Florian; Ho, Hoa; Spantig, Lisa - 2022
The Microfinance industry has been severely affected by Covid-19. We provide detailed insights into how loan officers, the key personnel linking the lender to its borrowers, are affected in their performance and adapt their work to the pandemic. We use administrative records of an Indian...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013193768
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Mapping the dynamics of management styles : evidence from German survey data
Englmaier, Florian; Hofmann, Michael; Wolter, Stefanie - 2023
We study how firms adjust the bundles of management practices they adopt over time, using repeated survey data collected in Germany from 2012 to 2018. By employing unsupervised machine learning, we leverage high-dimensional data on human resource policies to describe clusters of management...
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