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This work investigates how the export status of the firm influences the patterns of growth at different age classes. We address this research question resorting to a novel set of data that links together the universe of Italian firms and detailed data on export transactions. We find that the...
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We examine whether the effects of firm age and size on survival and growth found in studies of manufacturing firms 1- hold also in retailing, 2- are a reflection of underlying firm-specific efficiency, per models such as Jovanovic's (1982), or play a separate role from other firm characteristics...
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Firm growth is an essential feature of market economies, shaping together macroeconomic performance and the evolution of industry structures. As a potential indicator of organizational "fitness" within a competitive environment, firm growth is also a central concern to both the practice and...
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This work investigates how the export status of the firm influences the patterns of growth at different age classes. We address this research question resorting to a novel set of data that links together the universe of Italian firms and detailed data on export transactions. We find that the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011705467
corporate reports. As an original contribution, we incorporate the intensity of corporate discourse on technology …
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Do firms in developing countries shift trade towards developed economies as a result of high economic growth? The matched customs-manufacturing firm data used in this study confront this hypothesized link with empirical evidence. Our analysis reveals a rising low-income country trade share...
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The number of producers in the U.S. tire industry grew for 25 years and then declined sharply, and the industry evolved to be an oligopoly. The role of technological change in shaping the industry's market structure is explored. A model of industry evolution featuring technological change is...
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information on revenues, product and process innovation. I then regress these measures of business performance on top team … between diversity and business performance, which is net positive for process innovation and net negative for turnover …
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effects of SME's use of BSC in terms of financial performance and innovation outcomes. Our arguments are based on the … for feedforward control obtained better financial performance and presented higher levels of exploitative innovation. We …
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knowledge and resources required for innovation. Innovation is a particular challenge in emerging markets because of inadequate … necessary for innovation in the context of inadequate external institutions. Specifically, we hypothesize that ownership type … diversity improves innovation performance and that increasing ownership concentration has the same effect, but only up to a …
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