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As major determinants of economic activity, innovation and research and development activities are major issues in the analysis of growth. Focusing on microeconomic aspects of innovation within the endogenous growth literature helps reconsidering the sources and mechanisms of growth. This...
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The last three decades have witnessed an explosion of theoretical work on the organization of firms (Robert Gibbons and John Roberts, 2009). In parallel, there has been a massive increase in access to micro data which has revealed huge dispersions in productivity. For example, within narrow...
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management on firm performance; (ii) a positive relationship between product market competition and average management quality …
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A number of studies focus on the effects of open innovation on firm performance. However, in our view, previous … contributions suffer from two main limitations: at first, there is still no homogeneity in the proposition of what "firm performance … openness and performance, since there is still no consensus among authors on whether the relationship between openness and firm …
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value chain for all firms, regardless of size. We also observe that the performance of internal R&D activities fosters the …
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This paper explores the processes of indigenous (global South) innovation, particularly of the “high-tech” and “radical” kind, which have spurred technological catch-up, using the example of a third-generation (3G) Chinese mobile communications technology standard. Three hypotheses were...
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This paper aims to make a contribution on the identification of clue factors that have helped “Imprenta Patrótica” to remain almost invariable since its foundation, in spite of constant implementation processes of technological innovations that have taken place on the local Graphic...
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impact on corporate performance. Information and communication technology has brought about significant changes in …
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Purpose - The literature on the topic has evolved exponentially since eight years ago. Relaying on a review of studies published in recent years, this article proposes and discusses a framework which incorporates a set of virtual teams involved in a new product development initiative....
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appearances (innovative management, innovation culture, innovative policy, and innovative factors) as well as the performance of …
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