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The effects of knowledge managementon innovative success –an empirical analysis of German firms

Cantner, Uwe; Joel, Kristin; Tobias Schmidt - Volkswirtschaftliches Forschungszentrum <Frankfurt, Main> - 2009

The aim of this paper is to analyse the effects of knowledge management on theinnovation success of firms in Germany. Using a matching procedure on data from theGerman Innovation Survey of 2003 (“Mannheim Innovation Panel”), we pair firmsapplying knowledge management with twin firms with...

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Business-to-Business E-Commerce: Value Creation, Value Capture and Valuation

Garicano, Luis; Kaplan, Steven N. - University <Chicago, Ill.> / Department of Economics - 2002

This paper presents a framework to analyze the potential changes in transaction costs due to theintroduction of e-commerce on transactions between businesses. It then illustrates and applies thisframework using internal data from an Internet-based firm to measure process improvements,marketplace...

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Compulsory Licensing - Evidence from the Trading with the Enemy Act

Moser, Petra; Voena, Alessandra - National Bureau of Economic Research <Cambridge, Mass.> - 2009

Compulsory licensing allows firms in developing countries to produce foreign-owned inventions withoutthe consent of foreign patent owners. This paper uses an exogenous event of compulsory licensingafter World War I under the Trading with the Enemy Act to examine the long run effects of...

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Different higher education patterns of topmanagers in the U.S., France, and Germany - a signaling approach

Franck, Egon; Opitz, Christian - 2003

The paper presents an economic explanation of country-specific higher education patterns among topmanagers based on a … signaling approach. Starting from Ar-row's hypothesis that higher education functions as a filter for human capital, we discuss … three alternative filter-designs, which can be attributed to the higher edu-cation systems of the U.S., France and Germany.(...) …

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'Organisationale Bildung' oder 'Das Lernen des Lernens'

Klimecki, Rüdiger G.; Laßleben, Hermann - 2000

Der Beitrag untersucht, welche Aussagen bezüglich dieser Aspekte in prominenten Ansätzen zum organisationalen Lernen enthalten sind. Vorschläge zur Förderung organisationaler Bildung, die auf eigenen empirischen Untersuchungen zum Wesen organisationaler Lernprozesse beruhen und Betrachtungen...

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The Effect of Expansions in Maternity Leave Coverage on Children´s Long-Term Outcomes

Dustmann, Christian; Schönberg, Uta - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008

This paper evaluates the impact of three major expansions in leave coverage in Germany on the long-run education and …

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Piece rates and learning: understanding work and production in the New England textile industry a century ago.

Leunig, Timothy - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2003

New data on individual worker’s outputs show that New England ring spinners exhibited substantial on the job learning c. 1905. Despite this, variable capital-labour ratios meant high labour turnover reduced aggregate labour productivity only fractionally. The combination of variable...

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Careers for the unskilled in the Great Eastern Railway Company, 1870-1913

Howlett, Peter - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2001

One of the most significant changes in the labour market in the twentieth century was the rise of the internal labour market. Its origins can be found in the nineteenth century, particularly in the large service companies such as banks and the railway companies. By studying the internal labour...

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State-Building, The Original Push For Institutional Changes In Modern China, 1840-1950

Deng, Kent G. 171897390 - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2004

The period of 1840 (when the Opium War broken out) till now is commonly regarded as China’s modern era, ‘modern’ in terms of China’s departure from its original growth and developmental path. In this context, the term modern has been intimately associated with something alien to the...

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Agri-Technologies and Travelling Facts: A Case Study of Extension Education in Tamil Nadu, India

Howlett, Peter; Velkar, Aashish - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2008

education program inTamil Nadu, south India. The paper explores the extent to whichfertigation technologies (drip irrigation … localfarmers associations. This model of an extension education had anstrong demonstration effect that encouraged the travel of …

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