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Impact of technological change on small and medium enterprises performance in Lagos State
Durowoju, Stella Toyosi - In: Economic and environmental studies : a journal for … 17 (2017) 4, pp. 743-756
of SMEs to accept new innovative methods that will lead to higher performance of humans and machines for increased … regression technique. The hypothesis tested found that technological change has effect on organizational performance of small and … recorded in the SMEs performance is accounted for by technological change. This result is statistically significant because the …
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Eco-innovation and firm growth: do green gazelles run faster? : microeconometric evidence from a sample of European firms
Colombelli, Alessandra; Krafft, Jackie; Quatraro, Francesco - 2015
This paper investigates the impact of eco-innovation on firms' growth processes, with a special focus on gazelles, i.e. firms' showing higher growth rates than the average. In a context shaped by more and more stringent environmental regulatory frameworks, we posit that inducement mechanisms...
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The relationship between environmental efficiency and manufacturing firm's growth
Mazzanti, Massimiliano; Cainelli, Giulio; Zoboli, Roberto - 2008
of 61,219 Italian manufacturing firms over the period 2000-2004. As a measure of lagged environmental performance …-environmental performance relationship. Signals of inverted U shape appear: this may be a signal that both firm strategies and recent policy … ; Economic Performance ; Environmental Performance …
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Green innovations and organizational change : making better use of environmental technology
Hottenrott, Hanna; Rexhäuser, Sascha; Veugelers, Reinhilde - 2012
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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Green Innovations and Organizational Change : Making Better Use of Environmental Technology
Hottenrott, Hanna; Rexhauser, Sascha; Veugelers, Reinhilde - 2014
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014167857
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Green Innovations and Organizational Change : Making Better Use of Environmental Technology
Hottenrott, Hanna - 2014
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013064882
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Environmentally-Oriented Innovative Strategies and Firm Performances in Services - Micro-Evidence from Italy
Mazzanti, Massimiliano; Cainelli, Giulio; Zoboli, Roberto - 2015
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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Globalization and the "new enterprise"
Marin, Dalia; Verdier, Thierry - 2002
Globalization has been identified by many experts as a new way firms organize their activities and as the emergence of human capital as the new stakeholder of the firm. This paper surveys recent work which examines the role of trade integration for these changes in corporate organization. More...
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Unraveling the shift to the entrepreneurial economy
Audretsch, David B.; Thurik, Adriaan R. - 2011 - Current version: April 2011
significantly increased, and (2) a positive relationship exists between entrepreneurial activity and economic performance. However …
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Buying to sell : a theory of buyouts
Norbäck, Pehr-Johan; Persson, Lars; Tåg, Joacim - 2010
Private equity owned firms have more leverage, more intense compensation contracts, and higher productivity than comparable firms. We develop a theory of buyouts in oligopolistic markets that explains these facts. Private equity firms are more aggressive in inducing restructuring compared to...
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