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This paper examines the determinants of innovation and the role of innovation in productivity growth, shifts in market … share and survival in the Canadian manufacturing sector. The paper presents a model that examines the effect of innovation … plant performance both before and after the introduction of an innovation. We find strong evidence that labour productivity …
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This study examines technology use in Canada's manufacturing sector and how a set of technology-using manufacturing establishments performed relative to non-users. Data originates from a recent Statistics Canada survey, asking manufacturing firms about their use of 22 advanced manufacturing...
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This study examines the differences in strategies and activities pursued by a sample of more-successful and less-successful group of growing small-and medium-sized enterprises. Amongst other matters, it examines different functional strategies--the importance of management, human resource...
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This study investigates differences in the policies being pursued by innovative and non-innovative firms. It focuses on a broad group of strategies in marketing, finance, production, management and human resources and asks whether there are key areas in which the strategies being followed by...
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This paper summarizes the results of several research studies conducted by the Micro-economic Analysis Division of Statistics Canada that investigate the impact of advanced technology use on business performance. These studies combine establishment-level survey data on advanced technology...
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This paper summarizes the findings of a research program aimed at outlining the importance to the firm growth process of competencies that arise from investments in intangible assets. The program has consisted of two parts. First, longitudinal databases have provided a rich set of studies on...
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This study examines the factors influencing a firm's decision to train, using data taken from several recent Statistic Canada surveys that explore advanced technology use by Canadian manufacturing plants. Advanced technology adoption has been both rapid and pervasive, leading to concerns about...
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facilitated by training is complementary to innovation and technological change. Training incidence is found to be closely related … strategies that are related to innovation. Training is also greater where a firm emphasizes quality and a comprehensive human …
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We examine the simultaneous effects of real-exchange-rate movements and of tariff reductions on plant death in Canadian manufacturing industries between 1979 and 1996. We find that both currency appreciation and tariff cuts increase the probability of plant death, but that tariff reductions have...
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