Unter den heutigen, kompetitiven Marktbedingungen steht es ausser Frage, dass es für Unternehmen nahezu überlebenswichtig ist, erfolgreich zu innovieren. Dies gilt zwar gleichermassen für produzierende Unternehmen und Dienstleistungsunternehmen, jedoch könnte die Wissenschaft ihre...

Existing literature on economic growth and structural change relies on trade data to make pronouncements about a country's competitiveness and long-term growth prospects through the acquisition of capabilities. However, insufficient data give us a limited view of what is happening within the...

Knowledge Intensive Business Services (KIBS) are widely perceived as being important drivers of technological progress and innovation. KIBS are generally understood as depending, driving and thriving on knowledge exchanges and therefore, geographical proximity to markets, customers and suppliers...

Das Management produzierender Unternehmen unterschätzt die Aufwendungen zur Implementierung der Service Operation Modelle hinsichtlich physischer Ressourcenlimitationen, Wissensdefizite der operativen Servicemitarbeiter sowie Informationsintensität der installierten Maschinen. Um...

Consider two heterogenous populations of agents who, when matched, jointly produce an output, Y. For example, teachers and classrooms of students together produce achievement, parents raise children, whose life outcomes vary in adulthood, assembly plant managers and workers produce a certain...

In diesem Arbeitspapier wird analysiert, ob die Systemmarke ein zukunftsfähiges Konzept für Verbundgruppen darstellt. Hierzu wird die Systemmarke für Verbundgruppen zunächst definiert und zudem diskutiert, ob das Systemmarkenkonzept, insbesondere für die „Allrounder“, eine relevante...

Die Dissertationsschrift greift den seit längerem geführten Diskurs nach der Relevanz von Szenen für das Marketing auf und fokussiert auf die Grundannahme, dass sich Szenen nicht ausschließlich durch bspw. geteilte Wertorientierungen und Rituale, sondern mindestens genauso häufig durch den...

Partly motivated by the recent antitrust investigations concerning Google, we develop a leverage theory of tying in two-sided markets. We analyze incentives for a monopolist to tie its monopolized product with another product in a two-sided market. Tying provides a mechanism to circumvent the...

In this paper we consider the problem of allocating scarce resources in a divisionalized company; the resources are made available by the headquarters and requested by profit centers (PCs). This problem was observed at a large german insurance company (LAGIC). Currently, the resources are...

The development of new technologies and their application in new producta or processes are essential in today's competitive environment. Companies must make a Strategie decision concerning which new technologies they want to incorporate in their products/processes. Furthermore, they must decide...

This paper studies the causal relations between regional employment growth in Knowledge-Intensive Business Services (KIBS) and overall regional employment growth using German labour-market data for the period 1999-2012. Adopting a recently developed technique, we are able to estimate a...