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Collaboration and innovation in Sweden and Bulgaria : a study of a mature industry

Hoveskog, Maya; Antonova, Diana - In: International journal of economic sciences and applied … 4 (2011) 1, pp. 121-151

flows for collaboration and innovation. Companies from the two countries as well as Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) and … positive relationship with the companies' research and development (R&D) activities and innovation is developed. It was found … out that the set of variables employed can predict the innovation and R&D of companies, laying of electrochemical and …

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Euro and technology effects on job turnover in Greek manufacturing

Papadogonas, Theodore; Voulgaris, Fotini - In: International journal of economic sciences and applied … 3 (2010) 1, pp. 27-38

This paper investigates the effects of Greece's European Union (EU) accession and European Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) entry, as well as R&D intensity and industry concentration on job creation and job destruction in the Greek manufacturing sector. The study is based on firm-level economic...

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Entrepreneurial orientation in family and non-family firms : evidence from Bulgaria

Yordanova, Desislava Ivanova - In: International journal of economic sciences and applied … 4 (2011) 1, pp. 185-203

Despite the importance and potential role of entrepreneurship for economies in Central and Eastern Europe, little attention has been devoted to identifying which factors contribute to the entrepreneurship in the region. The purpose of the present study is twofold. First, there is a comparison of...

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The board of directors and its role in the corporate governance system : considerations about the control model ; a research note

Gstraunthaler, Thomas; Lukács, János; Steller, Marcel - In: International journal of economic sciences and applied … 1 (2008) 1, pp. 37-54

The paper examines the corporate governance mechanism of the control model (or insider control system) by looking at both the motivation for management to deviate from following their principal's wishes and whether the supervising body, the board of directors would correct them. Some...

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Lifestyle production : transformation from manufacturing to knowledge based production using innovation

Dilling-Hansen, Mogens; Jensen, Susanne - In: International journal of economic sciences and applied … 4 (2011) 1, pp. 35-54

increased market size and the competition. Innovation is a prerequisite for a successful transformation process and this paper … innovate; innovation is a prerequisite for firm survival in the four industries. -- transformation ; lifestyle production … ; innovation …

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Another empirical look at the Kuznets curve

Bhandari, Rabindra; Pradhan, Gyan; Upadhyay, Mukti - In: International journal of economic sciences and applied … 3 (2010) 2, pp. 7-19

This paper examines the functional relationships between income inequality, economic factors, institutions, and Kuznets' inverted-U hypothesis. A model that incorporates interactive as well as direct effects of several factors to capture their combined effect on inequality is developed. The...

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