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Unions, collective bargaining and firm performance
Laroche, Patrice - 2020
The impact of unions on firm performance has been the subject of debate and controversy in most industrialized … performance, the existing results lead us to consider unions not solely in terms of their costs for the company. Empirical results …
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Why entrepreneurs choose risky R&D projects : but still not risky enough
Färnstrand Damsgaard, Erika; Norbäck, Pehr-Johan; … - 2012
Entrepreneurs face higher commercialization costs than incumbents. We show that this implies that entrepreneurs will choose more risky projects than incumbents, aiming to reduce their high expected marginal commercialization cost. However, entrepreneurs may select too safe projects from a social...
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Competitiveness and ecological impacts of green energy technologies : firm-level evidence for the DACH region
Peneder, Michael; Arvanitis, Spyridon; Rammer, Christian; … - 2017
's ecological and economic performance. To identify the causal linkages, we build a system of twelve equations, first tracking the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011742717
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Competitiveness and ecological impacts of green energy technologies : firm-level evidence for the DACH region
Arvanitis, Spyridon; Peneder, Michael; Rammer, Christian; … - 2016
's ecological and economic performance. To identify the causal linkages, we build a system of twelve equations, tracking first the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011573225
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The past and future of manufacturing in Central and Eastern Europe : ready for industry 4.0?
Naudé, Wim; Surdej, Aleksander; Cameron, Martin - 2019
In this paper we determine the industry 4.0 (I4.0) readiness of eight Central and Eastern European countries (CEECs): Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Lithuania, Hungary, Poland, Romania, the Slovak Republic and Slovenia. We outline the nature of manufacturing in the region, describe three distinct...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011978455
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Key features of the first phase of the national cluster program in Russia
Kutsenko, Evgeniy; Meissner, Dirk - 2013
Cluster policy is recognized as one of the pivotal elements of state-of-art innovation policy. State support for clusters helps to take into account regional peculiarities and engage the most innovative local actors into the process of innovation policy drafting and implementation. Cluster...
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The organization of public-private cooperation for productive development policies
Cornick, Jorge - 2013
Productive development policies (PDPs)-what used to be called industrial policies-are increasingly recognized as an essential part of the development toolkit, and the need for public-private cooperation is increasingly viewed as a key element for the successful design and implementation of such...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011303824
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The "resurrection" of industrial policy in the European Union and its impact on industrial policy in the new member countries
Török, Ádám; Csuka, Gyöngyi; Kovács, Bernadett; … - 2013
The aim of this study is to consider the main factors affecting the industrial policy in Central and Eastern European Countries (CEECs) by elucidating the issues such as; the connection between competitiveness and industrial policy, innovation, manufacturing, green growth and environment. The...
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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...
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Innovation in green energy technologies and the economic performance of firms
Kruse, Jürgen - 2016
on the economic performance of firms. My analysis is conducted on a panel of 8,619 patenting firms including 968 green … energy patenters from 22 European countries over the period 2003 to 2010. I measure economic firm performance in terms of … innovation has a statistically significant negative impact on economic firm performance. In contrast, nongreen energy innovation …
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