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Modern Management: Good for the Environment or just Hot Air?

bloom, nicholas; Martin, Ralf; Sadun, Raffaella; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008

We use an innovative methodology to measure management practices in over 300 manufacturing firms in the UK. We then match this management data to production and energy usage information for establishments owned by these firms. We find that establishments in better managed firms are significantly...

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The New Empirical Economics of Management

bloom, nicholas; Sadun, Raffaella; van Reenen, John; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

Over the last decade the World Management Survey (WMS) has collected firm-level management practices data across multiple sectors and countries. We developed the survey to try to explain the large and persistent TFP differences across firms and countries. This review paper discusses what has...

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Innovative Capability and Financing Constraints for Innovation: More Money, More Innovation?

Hottenrott, Hanna; Peters, Bettina - In: The Review of Economics and Statistics 94 (2012) 4, pp. 1126-1142

This study presents a novel empirical approach to identify financing constraints for innovation based on the concept of … they selected additional innovation projects, they must have had some unexploited investment opportunities that were not … profitable using more costly external finance. We attribute constraints for innovation not only to lacking financing, but also to …

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Innovative capability and financing constraints for innovation: More money, more innovation?

Hottenrott, Hanna; Peters, Bettina - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2012

This study presents a novel empirical approach to identify financing constraints for innovation based on the concept of …. If they selected additional innovation projects, they must have had some unexploited investment opportunities that were … not profitable using more costly external finance. We attribute constraints for innovation not only to lacking financing …

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Estimating dynamic R&D demand: An analysis of costs and long-run benefits

Peters, Bettina; Roberts, Mark J.; Vuong, Van Anh; … - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2013

Using firm-level data from the German manufacturing sector, we estimate a dynamic, structural model of the firm's decision to invest in R&D and quantify the cost and longrun benefit of this investment. The model incorporates and quantifies linkages between the firm's R&D investment, product and...

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Innovative capability and financing constraints for innovation: More money, more innovation?

Hottenrott, Hanna; Peters, Bettina - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2009

This study presents a novel empirical approach to identify financing constraints for innovation based on the idea of an … alternatives of use. If they choose additional innovation projects they must have had some unexploited investment opportunities … attribute constraints for innovation not only to lacking financing, but also to firms' innovative capability. Econometric …

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Churning of R&D personnel and innovation

Müller, Kathrin; Peters, Bettina - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2010

This paper explores the role of R&D worker mobility on innovation performance. As one main novelty, we employ churning … innovation through inter-firm knowledge spillovers and improved job-match quality up to certain threshold. The point when costs …

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Employment Effects of Different Innovation Activities: Microeconometric Evidence

Peters, Bettina - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2004

innovation and employment growth in Germany. The model is tailor-made for analysing firm-level employment effects of innovations … using specific information provided by CIS data. It establishes a theoretical link between employment growth and innovation …

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Employment Effects of Different Innovation Activities: Microeconometric Evidence

Peters, Bettina - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2005

Extending a recently developed multi-product model and distinguishing between different product and process innovation … activities, this paper reports new results on the relationship between innovation and employment growth in manufacturing and … information provided by CIS data. It establishes a theoretical link between employment growth and innovation output. The …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005097873

Innovative capability and financing constraints for innovation: More money, more innovation?

Hottenrott, Hanna; Peters, Bettina - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2011

This study presents a novel empirical approach to identify financing constraints for innovation based on the concept of … alternatives of use. If they selected additional innovation projects, they must have had some unexploited investment opportunities … that were not profitable using more costly external finance. We attribute constraints for innovation not only to lacking …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009147345