regionalen Diversifizierung von IKT-Güterimporten und dem Unternehmenserfolg untersucht. Im Ergebnis zeigt sich ein positiver …

In innovation research, there is a wide-spread notion that women in general and women entrepreneurs in particular are … less innovative than their male counterparts. This is often associated with a weaker performance of women-led firms. Our … study shows that this notion is based on a limited definition and examination of innovation. In empirical research as well …

and development (R&D) - their innovation goals in the medium term. However, the shortage of skilled workers turns out to … be a hindering factor in the innovation process . By contrast, most ICT companies have not been sufficiently suc …-cessful at winning other firms to build R&D co-operations to overcome hurdles to innovation. …

to compare their characteristics and performance to that of other public companies. Major findings are that 1) companies …

It is discussed whether hybrid strategies are beneficial or detrimental to a firm's performance, because hybrid …, existing studies on the relationship between hybrid strategy and firm performance have largely neglected the role of the … the relationship between a hybrid strategy and firm performance. Particularly, the roles of specific organization …

, the degree of de/centralization, and the performance of almost 260 German manufacturing firms. We estimate production …

This paper empirically examines the impact of trust-based working time on firm performance using panel data from German … motivation positively as well as negatively. Therefore, at the establishment level the performance effects of trust-based working … performance effects are estimated at about 1-2 percent, while in the full sample both per- formance effects are stronger ranging …

performance around CEO-turnover announcements in a new hand-collected sample of 208 "clean" turnover events between January 1998 …