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Green innovations and organizational change: Making better use of environmental technology
Hottenrott, Hanna; Rexhäuser, Sascha; Veugelers, Reinhilde - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2012
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/10010985629
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The link between firm-level innovation and aggregate productivity growth: a cross-country examination
Heshmati, Almas; Lööf, Hans - 2003
This paper investigates whether failure in innovation at the firm level can account for cross-country heterogeneity in …, differs in a number of ways from much of the previous cross-country comparisons on the relationship between innovation and … productivity using firm-level data. First, a broader definition of innovation input is used in which research and development is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010298125
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Green innovations and organizational change: Making better use of environmental technology
Hottenrott, Hanna; Rexhäuser, Sascha; Veugelers, Reinhilde - 2012
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/10010309495
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Allocation of human capital and innovation at the frontier: Firm-level evidence on Germany and the Netherlands
Bartelsmann, Eric; Dobbelaere, Sabien; Peters, Bettina - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2014
This paper examines how productivity effects of human capital and innovation vary at different points of the …-skilled employees and industries in Germany by a more unequal distribution of human capital intensity. In Germany, average innovation … performance is higher in all industries, except for low-technology manufacturing, and in the Netherlands the innovation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010985700
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Clean and Productive? Evidence from the German Manufacturing Industry
Oberndorfer, Ulrich; Moslener, Ulf; Böhringer, Christoph; … - 2008
We analyze the productivity effects of environmental (green) investment as well as of environmental expenditures and energy expenditures. For this purpose, we follow a production function approach where we account for these investment and expenditure categories as inputs. Based on a panel...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010298667
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ICT and resilience in times of crisis: Evidence from cross-country micro moments data
Bertschek, Irene; Polder, Michael; Schulte, Patrick - 2017
ICT-intensive firms are often found to have a better performance than their non-ICTintensive counterparts. Along with investing in ICT capital they have to adapt their production and business processes in order to reap the potentials implied by the use of ICT. Are these firms also more resilient...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011702776
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Internationalisation, innovation and productivity in services: Evidence from Germany, Ireland and the United Kingdom
Peters, Bettina; Riley, Rebecca R.; Siedschlag, Iulia; … - 2018
This paper examines the links between internationalisation, innovation and productivity in service enterprises. For … this purpose, we use micro data from the Community Innovation Survey 2008 in Germany, Ireland and the United Kingdom, and … of innovation outputs in all three countries. Our results indicate that innovation in service enterprises is linked to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011793093
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The value of a loss: The impact of restricting tax loss transfers
Bührle, Anna Theresa; Casi-Eberhard, Elisa; Stage, Barbara - 2023
We study the economic consequences of anti-loss trafficking rules, which disallow the use of loss carry-forwards as tax shield after a substantial ownership change. Using staggered changes to these rules, we find that limiting the transfer of tax losses reduces the number of M&As with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014420706
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Allocation of human capital and innovation at the frontier: Firm-level evidence on Germany and the Netherlands
Bartelsmann, Eric; Dobbelaere, Sabien; Peters, Bettina - 2014
This paper examines how productivity effects of human capital and innovation vary at different points of the …-skilled employees and industries in Germany by a more unequal distribution of human capital intensity. In Germany, average innovation … performance is higher in all industries, except for low-technology manufacturing, and in the Netherlands the innovation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010398714
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Birthplace diversity and team performance
Brox, Enzo; Krieger, Tommy - 2019
We present a simple model to illustrate how birthplace diversity may affect team performance. The model assumes that birthplace diversity increases the stock of available knowledge due to skill complementarities and decreases effciency due to communication barriers. The consequence of these two...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012011029