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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...
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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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Green Management and Green Technology - Exploring the Causal Relationship
Ziegler, Andreas - 2014
environmental performance such as green technology activities on green management. Based on evolutionary theory and the resource …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012709703
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Determinants of Environmental Innovations in Germany : Do Organizational Measures Matter?
Ziegler, Andreas; Rennings, Klaus - 2014
Based on a unique firm level data set of the German manufacturing sector, this paper provides new empirical evidence regarding the determinants of different types of environmental technological innovations. We examine particularly the effects of environmental organizational measures such as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014071458
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Green Innovations and Organizational Change : Making Better Use of Environmental Technology
Hottenrott, Hanna; Rexhauser, Sascha; Veugelers, Reinhilde - 2014
The literature on within-firm organizational change and productivity suggests that firms can make more efficient use of certain technologies if complementary forms of organization are adopted. This issue may be of even greater importance for the case of greenhouse gas (GHG) abatement...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014167857
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Integrated Product Policy and Environmental Product Innovations : An Empirical Analysis
Rennings, Klaus; Ziegler, Andreas; Rehfeld, Katharina-Maria - 2008
The European Commission has recently stepped up its promotion of the "Integrated Product Policy". The objective of the IPP is to support the realisation of environmental product innovations and thus to achieve a broad reduction of all environmental impacts throughout a product's life cycle....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014028820
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Policy-Induced Environmental Technology and Inventive Efforts : Is There a Crowding Out?
Hottenrott, Hanna - 2014
Significant policy effort is devoted to stimulate the development, adoption and diffusion of environmentally-friendly technology. Sceptics worry about the effects of regulation-induced environmental technology on firms' competitiveness. Since innovation is a crucial productivity driver, a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013060796
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Do Shorter Product Cycles Induce Patent Thickets?
Beschorner, Patrick - 2014
The traditional argument that shorter product cycles favor trade secret over patenting is reviewed. A game theoretic model provides an argument that shorter product cycles can induce firms to file more patent applications. The firms may be trapped in a prisoners' dilemma where all firms would...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014212185
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The Power of Individual-Level Drivers of Inventive Performance
Zwick, Thomas - 2016
Based on an established theoretical framework of the drivers of inventive performance, the so-called KSAO (Knowledge …, Skills, Abilities, and Other) factors, this paper seeks to explain empirically the performance of inventors throughout their … of inventive performance such as inventor age and a broad list of applicant institution-, technology-, patent-, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013002212