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In recognition of the importance and expansion of the gig economy, largely in developed and BRICs economies, along with the growing literature surrounding it, this research contributes towards an empirical and conceptual understanding of how employee motivation and retention are managed by the...
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firm innovation. To do so, we create a panel dataset by matching official China Top Brand Award recipients to the … innovation outputs of listed companies. Results from difference-in-differences estimates show that firms that received the China … the China Top Brand Award on innovation outputs operate through higher government subsidies to winning firms. We also find …
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This paper aims to shed light on firm specific drivers that lead firms to internationalise their innovation activities …’s competitive environment and the influence of innovation obstacles in the home country. In particular, the role of the potential … used to observe their impact on the decision to locate innovation activities in various countries and regions (China …
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Monitoring by institutional investors can act as an important mechanism to promote firm innovation. By investigating … innovation. Consistent with the monitoring view, we further find that (1) the effect of institutional investors on firm patenting … robust when innovation quality is examined. …
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China's proclaimed aim of becoming the world's leader in science, technology and innovation by the mid twenty first …
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affected its long-run innovation. Focusing on 156 major industrial projects aided by the Soviet Union, combined with an … programs for long-run innovation due to firms adopting incentive-incompatible management technology. …
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' heterogeneous productivity gains and sales dynamics, and innovation activities ultimately shape the patterns of employment dynamics …. Using firm's productivity growth as a proxy for process innovation, our results show that the latter correlates negatively … innovation and patenting activities on employment growth appear to be negligible. …
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We develop an index that compares the quality of Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) applications by considering citations generated by International Search Reports (ISRs). In its most restrictive variation, i.e. excluding citations from the home country and self-citations, the ISR index is not...
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In the past years Chinese firms increased their spending on R&D substantially and worked on achieving a higher quality level of R&D. We analyze whether different R&D activities show a positive influence on total factor productivity (TFP) for firms of different ownership types and across two time...
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-oriented provincial governments and that China’s innovation policy is more supportive of firms located in developed provinces. Considering …
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