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Turbulence, Flexibility and Performance of the Long-lived Small Firm

Power, Bernadette; Reid, Gavin C - Tinbergen Instituut - 2003

in Scotland. New measures of flexibility and turbulence are used to explain the performance of mature small firms. These … depend on our unique body of evidence from interviews with owner managers. Performance is measured using a Likert scale over … performance. This is done in two forms. The first involves generalised least squares estimation (with heteroskedastic adjustment …

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Unraveling the Shift to the Entrepreneurial Economy

Audretsch, D.B.; Thurik, A.R. - Tinbergen Instituut - 2010

significantly increased, and (2) a positive relationship exists between entrepreneurial activity and economic performance. However …

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Optimal Diversity in Investments with Recombinant Innovation

Bergh, Jeroen C.J.M. van den; Zeppini-Rossi, Paolo - Tinbergen Instituut - 2008

This discussion paper resulted in a publication in Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, 2013, 24, 141-156. We address the notion of dynamic, endogenous diversity and its role in theories of investment and technological innovation. We develop a formal model of an innovation arising from the...

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The Pollution Effects of Mergers and Acquisitions: Asymmetry, Disaggregation, and Multilateralism

Swart, Julia; Marrewijk, Charles van - Tinbergen Instituut - 2011

This paper studies the impact of cross-border Mergers and Acquisitions (M&As) on Carbon Dioxide emissions. Carbon Dioxide is the main anthropogenic greenhouse gas. A global problem that requires a multilateral solution. To take this into account we introduce an institutional variable, which...

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Modelling R&D and Innovation Support Systems – Analysis of Regional Cluster Structures in Innovation in Portugal

Vaz, Teresa de Noronha; Galindo, Purificación Vicente; … - Tinbergen Instituut - 2013

This paper offers a new methodology to identify R&D and innovation clusters, on the basis of a regional analysis of innovation support systems in Portugal. Using a web-based inventory of R&D and innovation agencies, an extensive data base is created. This data set is next analyzed by means of...

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Competing Recombinant Technologies for Environmental Innovation

Zeppini, Paolo; Bergh, Jeroen C.J.M. van den - Tinbergen Instituut - 2010

This discussion paper resulted in a publication in 'Industry and Innovation', 2011, 18(3), 317-334. This article presents a model of sequential decisions about investments in environmentally dirty and clean technologies, which extends the path-dependence framework of Arthur (1989). This allows...

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Differential Impact of Environmental Policy Instruments on Technological Change: A Review of the Empirical Literature

Vollebergh, Herman R.J. - Tinbergen Instituut - 2006

This survey reviews the empirical literature on the impact of environmental policy instruments on the rate and direction of technological change. The survey is explicitly focused on the empirical identification of the hypothesis to expect a stronger impact from market-based incentives than from...

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Carbon Lock-In: The Role of Expectations

Meijden, Gerard van der; Smulders, Sjak - Tinbergen Instituut - 2014

We argue that expectations about future energy use affect the transition from fossil fuels to renewable substitutes, because of an interaction between innovation and resource scarcity. The paper presents a model of directed technical change to study this interaction. We find that resource-saving...

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Social Exchange and Common Agency in Organizations

Dur, Robert; Roelfsema, Hein - Tinbergen Instituut - 2006

We study the relation between formal incentives and social exchange in organizations where employees work for several managers and reciprocate to a manager's attention with higher effort. To this end we develop a common agency model with two-sided moral hazard. We show that when effort is...

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Ability Dispersion and Team Performance: A Field Experiment

Hoogendoorn, Sander; Parker, Simon C.; Praag, Mirjam van - Tinbergen Instituut - 2012

This paper studies the impact of diversity in cognitive ability among members of a team on their performance. We … that team performance as measured in terms of sales, profits and profits per share first increases, and then decreases …

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