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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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environmental performance such as green technology activities on green management. Based on evolutionary theory and the resource …
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Based on a unique firm level data set of the German manufacturing sector, this paper provides new empirical evidence regarding the determinants of different types of environmental technological innovations. We examine particularly the effects of environmental organizational measures such as...
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The literature on within-firm organizational change and productivity suggests that firms can make more efficient use of certain technologies if complementary forms of organization are adopted. This issue may be of even greater importance for the case of greenhouse gas (GHG) abatement...
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The European Commission has recently stepped up its promotion of the "Integrated Product Policy". The objective of the IPP is to support the realisation of environmental product innovations and thus to achieve a broad reduction of all environmental impacts throughout a product's life cycle....
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Significant policy effort is devoted to stimulate the development, adoption and diffusion of environmentally-friendly technology. Sceptics worry about the effects of regulation-induced environmental technology on firms' competitiveness. Since innovation is a crucial productivity driver, a...
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significantly increased, and (2) a positive relationship exists between entrepreneurial activity and economic performance. However …
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The traditional argument that shorter product cycles favor trade secret over patenting is reviewed. A game theoretic model provides an argument that shorter product cycles can induce firms to file more patent applications. The firms may be trapped in a prisoners' dilemma where all firms would...
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significantly increased, and (2) a positive relationship exists between entrepreneurial activity and economic performance. However …
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Based on an established theoretical framework of the drivers of inventive performance, the so-called KSAO (Knowledge …, Skills, Abilities, and Other) factors, this paper seeks to explain empirically the performance of inventors throughout their … of inventive performance such as inventor age and a broad list of applicant institution-, technology-, patent-, and …
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