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Works Councils, Training Activities and Innovation: A Study of German Firms
Cantner, Uwe; Gerstlberger, Wolfgang; Roy, Ipsita - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
Building on the notion of general and specific human capital proposed by Becker (1962), the paper highlights the importance of employee training practices undertaken in firms as an important tool for human resource and knowledge management and focuses on the role of works councils as a specific...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884480
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Works councils, training activities and innovation: A study of German firms
Cantner, Uwe; Gerstlberger, Wolfgang; Roy, Ipsita - 2014
Building on the notion of general and specific human capital proposed by Becker (1962), the paper highlights the importance of employee training practices undertaken in firms as an important tool for human resource and knowledge management and focuses on the role of works councils as a specific...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010369304
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Incumbents' asymmetric responses to environmentally friendly entrants in the automotive industry
Diekhof, Josefine; Cantner, Uwe - 2017
In the context of technological change, the influence of innovative entrants on incumbents is considered a major driving force. Using global patent data, we analyze this influence for the case of the transition from combustion engine vehicles towards alternative technology vehicles (ATVs)....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011663363
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Turbulence, Flexibility and Performance of the Long-lived Small Firm
Power, Bernadette; Reid, Gavin C - 2003
in Scotland. New measures of flexibility and turbulence are used to explain the performance of mature small firms. These … depend on our unique body of evidence from interviews with owner managers. Performance is measured using a Likert scale over … performance. This is done in two forms. The first involves generalised least squares estimation (with heteroskedastic adjustment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010324750
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Unraveling the Shift to the Entrepreneurial Economy
Audretsch, D.B.; Thurik, A.R. - 2010
significantly increased, and (2) a positive relationship exists between entrepreneurial activity and economic performance. However …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010326000
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Unraveling the Shift to the Entrepreneurial Economy
Audretsch, David B.; Thurik, A. Roy - 2011
significantly increased, and (2) a positive relationship exists between entrepreneurial activity and economic performance. However …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014192096
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Micro Moments Database for Cross-Country Analysis of ICT, Innovation, and Economic Outcomes
Bartelsman, Eric; Hagsten, Eva; Polder, Michael - 2017
This paper provides technical documentation to a database built up from firm-level sources titled Micro moments database(MMD) that is made available for researchers through Eurostat. The MMD is an internationally harmonized research database of statistical moments collected from linked...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011586728
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The role of geographical proximity for project performance: Evidence from the German "Leading-Edge Cluster Competition"
Cantner, Uwe; Graf, Holger; Hinzmann, Susanne - 2015
performance of these linkages. In this paper we address this underexplored issue and aim to complement the rare examples of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011522055
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Firms' differential innovative success and market dynamics
Cantner, Uwe - 2007
shares and the relation to their respective relative technological performance and to their or innovative performance are … investigated with productivity levels as a proxy for technological performance and productivity changes as proxy for innovative … performance. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010263832
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Firms' Differential Innovative Success and Market Dynamics
Cantner, Uwe - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
shares and the relation to their respective relative technological performance and to their or innovative performance are … investigated with productivity levels as a proxy for technological performance and productivity changes as proxy for innovative … performance. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005090469