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It is known that small firms rely mainly on the CEO's individual knowledge for developing innovations. Recent work suggests that this approach is inefficient since it underutilizes other employees' knowledge. We study to which extent using CEOs, managers and non-managerial employees' ideas...
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Employee resistance against innovations is a virulent phenomenon and there is a broad theoretical literature on its determinants. The empirical evidence is scarce, however, and mainly provides descriptive evidence on the incidence of the phenomenon and concentrates on the effectiveness of change...
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The Internet has devalued content to the point where it is often offered at no charge — newspapers, for instance — or widely misappropriated, as with music and movies. Either way, many people expect much of their content to be free. Why is this, how did it happen, and, focusing on music and...
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Die halbjährliche Zeitumstellung führt immer wieder zu heftigen Diskussionen, ob die damit verbundenen Unannehmlichkeiten durch eine entsprechende Energieersparnis gerechtfertigt sind. Die Autoren haben die Stromersparnis für die Optionen Sommerzeit und Winterzeit (Status quo), nur Winterzeit...
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Die halbjährliche Zeitumstellung führt immer wieder zu heftigen Diskussionen, ob die damit verbundenen Unannehmlichkeiten durch eine entsprechende Energieersparnis gerechtfertigt sind. Die Autoren haben die Stromersparnis für die Optionen Sommerzeit und Winterzeit (Status quo), nur Winterzeit...
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Chinas Anteile an den Warenimporten der EU-Länder stiegen im Zeitraum 2000 bis 2019 sehr deutlich, mit einem Schwerpunkt auf der ersten Dekade. Deutschlands Anteile waren dagegen seit 2005 im Trend rückläufig. Bei den in dieser Studie betrachteten anspruchsvollen industriellen Produktgruppen...
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We compare trends in mortality, nutritional status and food supply to other living standard indicators for the early years of the Nazi period. We find that Germany experienced a substantial increase in mortality rates in most age groups in the mid-1930s, even relative to those of 1932, the worst...
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Eine Analyse des Außenhandels mit China und der Einfuhrabhängigkeiten von China im ersten Halbjahr 2023 zeigt: Gegenüber dem ersten Halbjahr 2022 sanken die deutschen Ausfuhren nach China um über 8 Prozent und die deutschen Einfuhren aus China um knapp 17 Prozent. Eine tiefere Analyse...
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This paper examines the concept of a promise, an essential tool for Islamic financial transactions that has facilitated the development of structured Sharī‘ah-compliant financing arrangements and mitigated much of the risk that Islamic financial institutions encounter. The study explores...
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We analyze the characteristics of new businesses in the German ICT industry, distinguishing them based on their choice between two IPR regimes: open source software (OSS) or closed source software (CSS). The share of new firms with an OSS-based business model has increased considerably over the...
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