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This paper aims at analysing the role of the environment in innovative strategies based on firm economic performance …-related effects (the core of performance indicators) are not significant. Mainstream hypotheses related to eventual negative impacts … performance do not seem to be present. …
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The main objective of this study is to investigate the impact of corporate R&D activities on firms' performance …
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This study investigates the relationship between innovations and firm growth, based on the data of Finnish firms operating in the software industry. We find that in terms of turnover and employment, firms with only technological innovations do not grow more rapidly than other firms. However,...
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Innovative start-ups are an important driver of economic growth. This article presents empirical evidence on the effects of R&D on new product development, inter-firm alliances and employment growth during the early life course of firms. We use a dataset that contains a sample of new firms that...
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A national-champions-related industrial policy has become (again) en vogue among European politicians. Against this background, our work orders different types of national champions along the industry lifecycle. Different types of locally bound externalities appear along the lifecycle. In a...
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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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The impact of environmental innovations on firm performance is ambiguous. On the one hand, regulatory …
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This article describes the benefits and pitfalls of starting a firm with an entrepreneurial team, drawing on a longitudinal empirical analysis of the life course of 90 team start-ups and 1196 solo start-ups in the Netherlands. In the first three years of their existence, team start-ups perform...
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. To evaluate whether the existence of social connections is beneficial to the firm's overall performance, we explore how … irrespective of the worker's ability, but when they are paid performance bonuses, they target their effort towards high ability … performance of connected workers, we find that favoring connected workers is detrimental for the firm's overall performance. …
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effects on employee voice of High Performance Work Practices (HPWPs) from the two economies which are noted for the wide use … influence and voice on shopfloor decision making than other workers; (ii) workers whose pay is tied to firm performance are more … likely to have a stake in firm performance and hence demand such influence and voice; and (iii) consequently workers in firms …
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