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The Link between R&D, Innovation and Productivity : Are Micro Firms Different?
Baumann, Julian - 2016
We analyze the link between R&D, innovation, and productivity in MSMEs with a special focus on micro firms with fewer … the probability of reporting innovation, with a larger effect size for product than for process innovations. Moreover …, micro firms benefit in a comparable way from innovation processes as larger firms, as they are similarly able to increase …
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Is Innovative Firm Behavior Correlated with Age and Gender Composition of the Workforce? Evidence from a New Type of Data for German Enterprises
Pfeifer, Christian - 2012
development (R&D)) for a large representative sample of enterprises from manufacturing industries in Germany using unique newly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013096452
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Age and Gender Composition of the Workforce, Productivity and Profits : Evidence from a New Type of Data for German Enterprises
Pfeifer, Christian - 2012
manufacturing industries in Germany. We use unique newly available data that for the first time combine information from the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013109440
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Managerial Practices and Students' Performance
Di Liberto, Adriana - 2014
centralized systems (Italy and Germany) lagging behind the more autonomous ones (Canada, Sweden, the UK, the US). For Italy, we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013046258
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Managerial Practices and Student Performance : Evidence from Changes in School Principals
Di Liberto, Adriana; Giua, Ludovica; Schivardi, Fabiano; … - 2023
We study how managerial practices of school principals affect student performance and aspirations. We link administrative data on secondary Italian students to the management scores of their school principals in 2011 and 2015 based on the World Management Survey methodology. The frequent...
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Corporate Hierarchies Under Employee Representation
Belloc, Filippo - 2020
This paper analyzes whether workplace employee representation (ER) affects the design of firm hierarchies. We rationalize the role of ER within a knowledge-based model of hierarchies, where the firm's choice of hierarchical layers depends on the trade-off between communication and knowledge...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012822863
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Cognitive Performance in the Home Office - Evidence from Professional Chess
Künn, Steffen - 2020
During the recent COVID-19 pandemic, traditional (offline) chess tournaments were prohibited and instead held online. We exploit this as a unique setting to assess the impact of moving offline tasks online on the cognitive performance of individuals. We use the Artificial Intelligence embodied...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012827997
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High-Growth Entrepreneurship
Brown, J. David - 2019
Analyzing data on all U.S. employers in a cohort of entering firms, we document a highly skewed size distribution, such that the largest 5% account for over half of cohort employment at firm birth and more than two-thirds at firm age 7. Little of the size variation is accounted for by industry...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012898724
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Female Hires and the Success of Start-Up Firms
Weber, Andrea - 2009
In this paper we investigate the relationship between females among the first hires of start-up companies and business success. Our results show that firms with female first hires have a higher share of female workers at the end of the first year after entry. Further, we find that firms with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013153516
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The Impact of Part-Time Work on Firm Total Factor Productivity : Evidence from Italy
Devicienti, Francesco - 2015
In this paper, we explore the impact of part-time work on firm productivity. Using a large panel data set of Italian corporations' balance sheets for the period 2000-2010, we first estimate the total factor productivity (TFP) of each firm for each year. We use different approaches aimed at...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013012801