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The Economic History of Sovereignty: Communal Responsibility, the Extended Family, and the Firm
Börner, Lars; Ritsch, Albrecht - Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung <Zürich>; … - 2008
Economic institutions encompassing increasingly sophisticated concepts of risk-sharing and liability flourished in Europe since the High Middle Ages. These innovations occurred in an environment of fragmented local jurisdictions, not within the framework of the territorial state. In this short...
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Quantifying the Contribution of Technological Change to Economic Growth in Different Eras: A Review of the Evidence
Crafts, Nicholas F. R. - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2003
Most economic historians would surely endorse Paul Romer's view expressed above that technological progress lies at the heart of long run economic growth. Long ago Kuznets identified the epoch of 'modern economic growth' as one where growth came to be driven by scientific and technological...
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Collaborative leadership: new perspectives in leadership development
De Meyer, Arnoud - Judge Business School <Cambridge>
Leadership is often defined as the capability to successfully manage change inorganisations. The way one manages change is to some extent contextual and influenced bythe environment. The environment our future leaders have to operate in is quite differentfrom what we were used to in the previous...
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Labour markets in China: coming to terms with globalisation
Warner, Malcolm - Judge Business School <Cambridge>
the ‘MiddleKingdom’ and was for centuries a model of technological and economic innovation. TheChinese not only introduced …
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Does FDI spur innovation, productivity and knowledge sourcing byincumbent firms? Evidence from manufacturing industry in Estonia
Vahter, Priit - William Davidson Institute <Ann Arbor, Mich.> - 2010
Does FDI affect productivity growth, innovation, and knowledge sourcing activities ofdomestic firms? This study employs …
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Unraveling the Role of Public Researcher Mobilityfor Industrial Innovation
Ejsing, Ann-Kathrine; Kaiser, Ulrich; Kongsted, Hans … - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011
scientistscontribute substantially more to innovation than R&D workers hired from other firms who, inturn, contribute slightly less to … industrial innovation than recent university graduates. Bycontrast, immobile workers add little to the innovative activity of … their employer. We also findthat the contribution of mobile R&D workers to innovation depreciates fairly rapidly …
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Labor Mobility, Social Network Effects,and Innovative Activity
Kaiser, Ulrich; Kongsted, Hans Christian; Rønde, Thomas - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011
We study the mapping between labor mobility and industrial innovative activity for thepopulation of R&D active Danish firms observed between 1999 and 2004. Our studydocuments a positive relationship between the number of workers who join a firm and thefirm’s innovative activity. This...
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Innovative Firms or Innovative Owners?Determinants of Innovation in Micro,Small, and Medium Enterprises
De Mel, Suresh; McKenzie, David; Woodruff, Christopher - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2009
Innovation is key to technology adoption and creation, and to explaining the vast differencesin productivity across and … survey from Sri Lanka totest this model and to examine whether and how owner characteristics matter for innovation.The survey … also allows analysis of the incidence of innovation in micro and small firms, whichhave traditionally been overlooked in …
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Employee Participation and Corporate Culture
Martins, Erko; Pundt, Alexander; Nerdinger, Friedemann W. - Universität <Rostock> / Lehrstuhl für Wirtschafts- … - 2006
Continuous change characterizes current economic practice. Frequently, organizations are facing social, economic, political, technological, and ecological changes (Naisbitt & Aburdene, 1992; Kobi, 1996). To respond to these challenges adequately is essential for continuation and success of every...
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Integration of innovative users as source of service innovations
Skiba, Florian; Herstatt, Cornelius - Institut für Technologie- und Innovationsmanagement … - 2008
importance for radical innovation significantlydetermines both, choice of users integrated as well as choice of integration …
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