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Cooperative and non-cooperative R&D in product innovation and firm performance

Karbowski, Adam - In: Journal of Business Economics and Management 20 (2019) 6, pp. 1121–1142

The aim of this article is to investigate the impacts of cooperative and non-cooperative R&D strategies on product innovation and firm performance. Based on the industrial economics literature and the optimisation model, R&D competition, R&D cartelisation, and full industry cartelisation...

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A study of the moderating influence of R&D intensity on the family management-firm performance relationship: Evidence from Spanish private manufacturing firms

Diéguez-Soto, J.; Manzaneque, M.; González-García, V.; … - In: BRQ Business Research Quarterly 22 (2019) 2, pp. 105-118

This study investigates the moderating influence of R&D intensity on the relationships between family management and firm performance in private firms. The results confirm that R&D intensity reinforces the negative effect of family management on firm performance. More specifically, we obtain...

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CEO characteristics and firm performance: Focus on origin, education and ownership

Saidu, Sani - In: Journal of Global Entrepreneurship Research 9 (2019) 29, pp. 1-15

This study examines the impact of the chief executive officer's (CEO) ownership, education and origin on firm … variables that include the CEO origin, education and ownership are investigated in relation to firm performance. These … education improves profitability. Similarly, stock performance gets improved when the CEO has prior experience of the firm …

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Relationships among knowledge-oriented leadership, customer knowledge management, innovation quality and firm performance in SMEs

In: Journal of Innovation & Knowledge (JIK) 7 (2022) 1, pp. 1-10

small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Thailand. The mediating roles of customer knowledge management and knowledge …-oriented leadership among these relationships are highlighted in the SMEs, wherein human resources and invested capital are limited … quality. Finally, the theoretical implications for academics and managerial implications for SMEs' managers are discussed. …

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Impact of macro-economic environment on diversification-performance relationship: A cross country study of India and Japan

Purkayastha, Saptarshi - 2013

Integrating the impact of resources and institutional factors, this study compares and contrasts the dynamic relationships between product diversification, business group affiliation and firm performance in two major economies in Asia. India and Japan have been chosen as they represent different...

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Corporate boards, interorganizational ties and profitability: the case of Japan

Raddant, Matthias; Takahashi, Hiroshi - In: Empirical Economics 62 (2021) 3, pp. 1365-1406

We analyze the ties between 4000 Japanese corporations in the time period from 2004 until 2013. We combine data about the board composition with ownership relationships and indicators of corporate profitability. The board network exhibits some clustering, which can partly be explained by...

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Gender quotas in the board room and firm performance: Evidence from a credible threat in Sweden

Tyrefors Hinnerich, Björn; Jansson, Joakim - 2017

Board room quotas have recently received an increasing amount of attention. This paper provides novel evidence on firm performance from an exogenous change in female board participation in Sweden. We use the credible threat, aimed at listed firms, of a quota law enacted by the Swedish deputy...

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The contribution of international R&D to firm profitability

Peters, Bettina; Schmiele, Anja - 2011

The internationalisation of corporate R&D opens up the chances to participate in international knowledge sharing. This increasingly motivates firms to accelerate the pace and extent of their international R&D activities in order to enhance innovativeness and consequently competitiveness and...

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The Young, the Old and the Innovative: The Impact of R&D on Firm Performance in ICT versus Other Sectors

Koutroumpis, Pantelis; Leiponen, Aija; Thomas, … - 2017

Although innovation opportunities within the ICT industry are assumed high in comparison with other industries because of their rapidly evolving technological trajectory, little empirical research systematically investigates the distribution of returns to R&D investment across industries and...

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Design, innovation and performance in European firms

Montresor, Sandro; Vezzani, Antonio - 2017

This paper provides some new theoretical speculations and empirical evidence on the relationship between design, innovation and economic performance at the firm level. We posit that design investments may provide firms with a higher capacity of introducing product/process innovations, but that...

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