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Exploring the Sources of Skill-Biased Technical Change : A Firm Performance Perspective

Leiponen, Aija - 2015

the focus is on the creation of new technology, that is, innovation. Low skill firms are hypothesized to benefit less from … innovation activities, particularly collaborative research and development (R&D). In other words, skills and innovation are … complementary. Complementarities associated with innovation may generate persistent differences in firm behavior and performance …

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Disruptive Technologies and Competitive Advantage of Firms in Dynamic Markets

Coccia, Mario - 2017

innovation-based competition …

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Making Sense of CEOs’ Facebook Pages and Corporate Wikis : Drivers of Enterprise 2.0 Success in TMT Industries

Bughin, Jacques R. - 2013

This paper investigates whether, and if yes, under what conditions, cloud-based collaboration technologies have improved company performance in the high-tech, media and telecom (TMT) industries. Two results stand out. First, while adoption of collaboration technologies in TMT is ahead of other...

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The Organizational Design of R&D Activities and their Performance Implications : Empirical Evidence for Spain

Lucena, Abel - 2013

, a comparison of the factors driving choices on R&D reveals that the use of “innovation management practices” and the …

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Network Embeddedness as a Predictor of Performance for New Technology-Based Firms

Bliemel, Martin J. - 2013

The logic of network embeddedness has been widely used in the technology entrepreneurship literature in recent years, yet itso perationalisation and use are neither well understood nor agreed upon. This paper reviews the logic of network embeddedness as it has been invoked and operationalised to...

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Liberalization, Firm Size and R&D Performance : A Firm Level Study of Indian Pharmaceutical Industry

Pradhan, Jaya Prakash - 2009

In the present paper, it is attempted to empirically verify the impact of economic liberalization on the R&D behaviour of Indian pharmaceutical firms controlling for the effects of several firm specific characteristics including firm size. The results from the Tobit analysis for a sample of...

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Knowledge Sourcing and Firm Performance in an Industrializing Economy : The Case of Taiwan (1992-2003)

Chang, Chia-Lin - 2009

policies encouraging innovation implemented from 1991 onwards paid off in the second half of the 1990s, with innovation driving … firm sales. In traditional industries, the effect of innovation can be interpreted as an effort to catch up with the global … specialization for Taiwan - which was largely enabled by the aforementioned innovation policies …

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The Impact of Intellectual Capital on International Business – An Analysis of Investments in Intellectual Capital & Export Performance

Kavida, V. - 2010

International Business is understood as commercial activity which transcends borders. In the era of Globalization, the distinction between domestic business and international business has become insignificant. Most of the domestic firms go international due to some ‘proactive/reactive' factors...

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What Does Matter in R&D Decentralization : Financial Performance Worry or Intensive Earnings Management?

Dhaoui, Abderrazak - 2010

This paper examines whether R&D decentralization influences performance. It examines also the impact of this decentralization on earnings management. To specify what does matter in the decentralization of the R&D we try to examine the relationship between centralization or decentralization of...

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R&D Investments and Firm Performance : An Empirical Investigation of the High Technology Sector (Software and Hardware) in the E.U

Pantagakis, Emmanouil - 2014

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the relationship among research and development expenses (R&D), market value and firm performance. Additionally, what is also questioned is, whether the relationship between R&D and market value of the firm is linear.Design/methodology/approach...

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