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...

Innovationen bilden ein wirksames Instrument zur Steigerung der Wettbewerbsfähigkeit eines Unternehmens. Sie werden durchgeführt, indem nacheinander die Aufgaben der Ideensuche, Ideenentwicklung, Produktion der ersten Serie und der Markteinführung abgearbeitet werden. Die dafür geeignete...

The relationship between executive pay and corporate financial performance con-tinues to attract wide academic, media and policy attention. The very high salariesenjoyed by senior executives in corporations primarily in the North American coun-tries are often contrasted with the relatively low...

Vorliegender Beitrag beschäftigt sich mit dem ECR-Element Efficient Promotion aus der Perspektive eines Herstellers. welcher die Funktion eines Category Leaders innehat.

Der Marktanteil stellt eine wichtige Größe für die Stärke von Marken im Konsumgüterbereich dar. Der Erfolg eines Produktmanagers wird unter anderem daran gemessen.Marktanteilsmodelle haben in der Marktforschung eine lange Tradition. Diese Arbeit zieht das Multinomiale Logit Modell zur...

This paper explores the macroeconomic consequences of preferences displaying asubsistence point. It departs from the existing related literature by assuming thatsubsistence points are specific to each variety of goods rather than to the compositeconsumption good. We show that this simple feature...

To reduce the competition from farmers who self-produce seed, an inbred line seed producercan switch to nondurable hybrid seed. In a two-period model we investigate the impactof crop durability on self-production, pricing and switching decisions, and we examine theimpact of license fees paid by...

This paper provides a quantitative study (N = 268) of patterns of free revealing offirm-developed innovations within embedded Linux, a type of open source software (OSS). Ifind that firms, without being obliged to do so, contribute many of their own developmentsback to public embedded Linux...

Actual performance measurement systems do not only consider financial measures like costs and profits but also non-financial indicators with respect customer service, quality and flexibility. Using the newsvendor model we explore the influence of possibly conflicting performance measures on...