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Integrating Environmental Issues Into Corporate Strategy: A Catalyst for Radical Organizational Innovation

Lefebvre, Élisabeth; Lefebvre, Louis A.; Roy, Marie Josée - Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des … - 1995

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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Works Councils, Training Activities and Innovation: A Study of German Firms

Cantner, Uwe; Gerstlberger, Wolfgang; Roy, Ipsita - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 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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Firms' Differential Innovative Success and Market Dynamics

Cantner, Uwe - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

shares and the relation to their respective relative technological performance and to their or innovative performance are … investigated with productivity levels as a proxy for technological performance and productivity changes as proxy for innovative … performance. …

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Innovative Efforts as Determinants of Export Performance: The Case of Specialized Suppliers

Bourgault, Mario; Lefebvre, Élisabeth; Lefebvre, Louis A. - Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des … - 1995

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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Do Firms Benefit from Complementarity Effect in R&D and What Drives their R&D Strategy Choices?

Cantner, Uwe; Savin, Ivan - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

This paper analyzes whether firms conducting internal R&D and acquiring external high-tech equipment experience a complementarity effect. For German CIS data we conduct a complete set of indirect and direct complementarity tests refining the analysis by looking at various types of innovations...

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Static Versus Dynamic Structural Models of Depression: The Case of the CES-D

Blais, Marc R.; Hess, Ursula; Riddle, Andrea S. - Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des … - 2002

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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Coping with stressful decisions: Individual differences, appraisals, and choice / Coping with stressful decisions:Individual differences, appraisals,and choice

Blais, Ann-Renée - Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des … - 2002

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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The role of R&D in new firm growth

Stam, Erik; Wennberg, Karl - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

Innovative start-ups are an important driver of economic growth. This article presents empirical evidence on the effects of R&D on new product development, inter-firm alliances and employment growth during the early life course of firms. We use a dataset that contains a sample of new firms that...

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Learning Conditions in the Context of R&D and Development Projects: Empirical Evidence from a Research Centre

Bourgault, Mario; Sicotte, Hélène - Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des … - 1998

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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Technological Learning and Organizational Context: Fit and Performance in SMEs

Lefebvre, Élisabeth; Lefebvre, Louis A.; Préfontaine, Lise - Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des … - 1996

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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