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Innovate or Die? A critical review of the literature on innovation and performance

Brusoni, Stefano; Cefis, Elena; Orsenigo, Luigi - KITeS, Centre for Knowledge, Internationalization and … - 2006

The idea that innovation leads to positive economic performance has become a sort of truism in recent years. However … scattered. In many ways, the jury is still out. First of all, there is still little agreement about what ‘performance’ means …. The range of indicators adopted in the literature varies widely: financial performance, market shares, new products …

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Strategic Search Diversion, Product Affiliation and Platform Competition

Hagiu, Andrei; Jullien, Bruno - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

Platforms use search diversion in order to trade off total consumer traffic for higher revenues derived by exposing consumers to products other than the ones that best fit their preferences. Our analysis yields three key and novel insights regarding search diversion incentives, which have direct...

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Competitive selection, self-organisation and Joseph A. Schumpeter

Foster, John - In: Journal of Evolutionary Economics 10 (2000) 3, pp. 311-328

Post-Schumpeterians have tended to use biological analogies to understand economic evolution, in contrast to Schumpeter himself. In this paper it is argued that the biological analogies used tend to be outdated and that Schumpeter espoused an intuitive understanding of the evolutionary economic...

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How does competition affect the relationship between innovation and productivity? Estimation of a CDM model for Norway

Castellacci, Fulvio - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

by a stronger impact of innovation input on their technological and economic performance. …

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Entrepreneurship and Innovation: Evidence from SMEs in Prishtina region, Kosovo

Govori, Arbiana - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

Innovation has become a central theme and challenge in the literature of entrepreneurship, SMEs management, and strategic knowledge management and in the literature of organizational learning. Innovation needs a business environment that is conducive to long-term investments in new business...

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Nonunion Worker Representation and the Closure of Establishments: German Evidence on the Role of Moderating Factors

Jirjahn, Uwe - Fach Volkswirtschaftslehre, Universität Trier - 2010

This article examines the relationship between works councils and the closure of manufacturing establishments in Germany. The relationship varies according to circumstances and type of establishment. For the subsample of single-establishment firms, the estimates show that works council presence...

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Competition, Cooperation, and Corporate Culture

Kosfeld, Michael; Siemens, Ferdinand von - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, … - 2007

Teamwork and cooperation between workers can be of substantial value to a firm, yet the level of worker cooperation often varies between individual firms. We show that these differences can be the result of labor market competition if workers have heterogeneous preferences and preferences are...

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Is Competition Good for Innovation? A Simple Approach to an Unresolved Question

Schmutzler, Armin - In: Foundations and Trends(R) in Microeconomics 5 (2010) 6, pp. 355-428

The relation between the intensity of competition and R&D investment has received a lot of attention, both in the theoretical and in the empirical literature. Nevertheless, no consensus on the sign of the effect of competition on innovation has emerged. This survey of the literature identifies...

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Managing the Family Firm: Evidence from CEOs at Work

Bandiera, Oriana; Prat, Andrea; Sadun, Raffaella - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2013

CEOs affect the performance of the firms they manage, and family CEOs seem to weaken it. Yet little is known about what …

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The Dynamics of the Media and Content Sector: A Synthesis

Simon, Jean-Paul - Institute for Prospective Technological Studies (IPTS), … - 2012

Chapters 1 and 2 of this report deal with the evolution of the media and contents sector towards a digital world, documenting the evolution of the strategy of the legacy players from a defensive behaviour to a more proactive one, striking deals with new entrants, creating new products online....

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