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This paper presents the results of a study conducted in manufacturing firms operating in the electrical and electronic sectors in Quebec. It investigates the extent to which environmental concerns are integrated into corporate strategy and the entire product development stages. Special attention...
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The paper considers a climate change growth model with three R&D sectors dedicated to energy, backstop and CCS (Carbon Capture and Storage) efficiency. First, we characterize the set of decentralized equilibria: A particular equilibrium is associated to each vector of public tools which includes...
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This paper presents empirical evidence on the relationship between innovative efforts and performance on international … export performance. Moreover, the study results suggest a particular innovative profile for global specialized suppliers …. Les résultats présentés dans cette étude portent sur le lien entre efforts innovateurs et performance sur les marchés …
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Depression is composed of multiple subcomponents including social, cognitive, affective, and somatic symptomatology. Many widely used self-report scales are also multidimensional, suggesting that the subcomponents of depression are empirically differentiated, yet the use of a composite score is...
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This study adapts Lazarus and Folkman's (1984) model of stress and coping to describe individual decision processes. This research also investigates the role of situational and person factors in coping and choice processes. In the first phase of the experiment, participants described two...
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Today's changing environment is bringing about a major transformation of the way organizations operate. Most of the discussion about such evolving environment focuses on the necessity for organizations to continuously renew their stock of knowledge and competencies. This renewal takes place...
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This paper investigates the relationship between organizational fit and performance. More specifically internal … between the level of internal coherence and firm performance is assessed in the specific context of SMEs. Results derived from … a particular form of theoretical approach based on fit as gestalt suggest that fit and performance must be interpreted …
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We consider the cost of providing incentives through tournaments when workers are inequity averse and performance … envy depending on the costs of assessing performance. More envious employees are preferred when these costs are high, less … à la mesure de la performance. Lorsque ces coûts sont élevés, le principal préférerait des travailleurs plus envieux; à …
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We attempt to answer the following questions: What are the revaluation effects and the impact on performance … liberalization across firms. Large firms tend to exhibit large revaluation effects, insignificant change in performance, large …, improved performance, smaller decline in volatility and decreases in correlation after liberalization. These results hold after …
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A national-champions-related industrial policy has become (again) en vogue among European politicians. Against this background, our work orders different types of national champions along the industry lifecycle. Different types of locally bound externalities appear along the lifecycle. In a...
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