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Within the special environment of the ChiNext market, we study how an internationalization strategy affects the independent innovation of Chinese entrepreneurial companies from two dimensions: R&D input and patent output. An internationalization strategy has a significant incentive effect on R&D...
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This paper analyzes the patent propensity as an outcome of innovative activities of regional SMEs. To achieve the aims … firms designated as innovative SMEs by the government are not performing differently than general firms. Only the CEO … considered to actively promote SMEs innovativeness. …
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small to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), over a five-year period, to estimate the effect of introducing a new product, or …
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automotive ancillary firms under the study, 33 units operating with foreign collaboration revealed that the import intensity was …
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In this paper, I conduct one of the first evaluations of a voluntary management program that features an independent verification mechanism to determine whether it is achieving its ultimate objectives. Using a sample of thousands of manufacturing facilities across the United States, I find...
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The current global business climate has not been favorable to most firms irrespective of industry affiliation. That condition necessitated companies to adopt operational excellence as a strategy for optimising output with little resources, reducing lead time with the efficient use of assets and...
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This paper proposes and estimates a two-step methodology to measure international managerial skill and calculate its impact on firm performance, using a sample of the biggest private Colombian exporting firms. The first step quantifies the manager’s organizational capital contribution to...
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The paper reports the results of a survey of top executives of Russian manufacturing subsidiaries of multinational corporations (MNCs). We reveal the prevailing types of job contracts and the use of monetary and non-monetary benefits, and find the similarities with and differences from such...
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This paper presents a novel methodology to measure international managerial skill, which has not been directly measured in the specialized management quality surveys. The international managerial quality variable captures the manager’s organizational capital contribution to improve production...
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, and supplier collaboration IT. Drawing on organizational information processing theory, this study associates the four IT …
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