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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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Inter-departmental innovation collaboration facilitates innovation performance. At the same time, it has been … manufacturing firms we show inter-departmental innovation collaboration to increase process innovation performance, but also to … produce costs in terms of project delay and project termination. These costs, however, do not affect innovation performance at …
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the environmental performance of firms. It is thus worth asking how the innovation activities and performance of firms …
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driver of their adoption affect the sign of the relationship between competitiveness and environmental performance. The …
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The impact of environmental innovations on firm performance is ambiguous. On the one hand, regulatory …
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This paper tests a number of hypotheses on the use and effectiveness of patents and trade secrets designed to protect innovation. While previous studies have often considered patents and trade secrets as substitutes for one another, we investigate the complementary role of the two protection...
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costs. Research therefore repeatedly stressed the positive relationship between collaborative R&D and innovation performance … market success of new products. While we can confirm previous findings in terms of gains for innovation performance, we also …
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This paper explores the effect of bargaining in vertical relationships on the profitability of suppliers’ R&D investments. Studies on the relationship between R&D and firm profitability mostly concentrate on the impact of horizontal market structure and neglect vertical interac-tions. Building...
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costs. Research therefore repeatedly stressed the positive relationship between collaborative R&D and innovation performance … market success of new products. While we can confirm previous findings in terms of gains for innovation performance, we also …
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This article investigates how a firm's financial strength affcts its dynamic decision to invest in R&D. We estimate a dynamic model of R&D choice using data for German firms in high-tech manufacturing industries. The model incorporates a measure of the firm's financial strength, derived from its...
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