Innovative activity is performed to a considerable extent in the service sector, namely within the socalled knowledge intensive business services (KIBS). Nevertheless, little is known about the determinants of innovative activity in these firms. In the present paper, some of these determinants...

Knowledge intensive business service firms (KIBS) are an important element of modern economies and thus attracting increasing interest in scientific research. In the existing literature it is argued that due to the important role of knowledge, innovation and userproducer interaction in the KIBS...

While the majority of existing studies on the determinants of post-entry firm growth focus on the role of the founders or on the impact of firm-specific characteristics like size, age or industry affiliation, a possible impact of the characteristics of a start-up’s workforce on post-entry...

Mit der Einführung des SGB II im Jahr 2005 hat der Gesetzgeber den Grundsicherungsstellen vor Ort große Spielräume bei der Umsetzung des SGB II und der konkreten Ausgestaltung der Organisation zentraler Leistungsprozesse eingeräumt. Das SGB II hat somit nicht nur zu einem Wettbewerb zwischen...

Legislative bargaining theory suggests that fiscal transfers among member states of a federation are determined to a substantial degree by political bargaining powers. Malapportionment of the states' population in the legislature is claimed to lead to disproportionally higher benefits of...

Die Mehrzahl der bisherigen empirischen Studien zu den Produktivitätswirkungen der betrieblichen Gewinnbeteiligung gelangt zu dem Ergebnis, dass die Beteiligung der Mitarbeiter am Unternehmenserfolg einen positiven Produktivitätseffekt induziert. Problematisch ist jedoch, dass bisherige...

Ziel des Beitrags ist eine empirische Analyse der Bedeutung möglicher Determinanten des Überlebens von Neugründungen in der badenwürttembergischen Industrie in der Zeit von 1981 bis 1994. Für die Studie wurden erstmals Daten der amtlichen baden-württembergischen Industriestatistik auf der...

Regions are exposed to intensive competition to provide the most attractive location conditions for firms and their employees. Therefore, regional employment development depends to a decisive degree on the attractiveness of locations both on the supply and the demand side. This paper gives an...

We analyze the offshorability of jobs using the German Qualifications and Career Survey. The paper differentiates between outsourcing potential and international tradability and systematically uses a large set of potential determinants of organizational and spatial relocation derived from the...

Carsharing has been growing significantly throughout the last years. However, the density of regional supply largely differs between urban and rural regions, between cities and also within cities and regions. Particularly the question of intraregional differences in the demand for carsharing is...