Skill gaps often arise already immediately after birth and increase during childhood long before formal education starts. Thus, early family environment can explain a crucial part of skill heterogeneity among…
This paper attempts to shed light on the pricing behaviour of firms or sellers in market places with price competition. In particular, it aims at testing the mechanism that lies at the heart of one of the most…
The rapid diffusion of open source software (OSS), the significant investments observed in OSS projects, and the new inter-firm collaborative possibilities enabled by such OSS projects have generated a…
During past decades, services gained more and more importance as inputs into the production process of firms, not only in service sectors, but also in manufacturing industries. Additionally, firms nowadays…
Establishing a new firm is a complex process which comprises many tasks. A common assumption in the theoretical literature on entrepreneurship is therefore that interdisciplinarity is important for successfully…
