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We examine the extent to which individual monitoring mechanisms enhance firm performance and shareholder value. We use a sample of Australian firms, from 1994 to 2003, to analyse the relationship between firm performance and corporate governance. This provides a long time series of governance...
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Apart from starting, growing and/or sustaining a business, owner-managers in small firms have the responsibility to balance business goals and managerial priorities, with ownership control tendencies and family values (as in the case of the prolific family enterprise) in a fashion that can...
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individual level, examining the relationship between religiosity and a broad set of pro- or anti-innovation attitudes in all five … waves of the World Values Survey (1980 to 2005). We thus relate eleven indicators of individual openness to innovation … innovation. …
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resources — product, operations, and marketing sources of ideas — as they relate to innovation and firm performance. Prior … studies founded upon the Resource Based View (RBV) of the firm, have focused on the relationship between innovation and firm … ideas, as valuable strategic firm resources, directly, and/or indirectly via innovation activities, contribute to firm …
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and exploitation, innovation success and firm performance. It is tested on a sample of 232 CEOs of corporations in the US …, innovation success and performance. More specifically, we find significant positive relationships between hierarchy culture and … influences both exploitation and exploration. Exploration and exploitation are positively related to innovation success and firm …
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evidence is based on two quantitative datasets describing innovation and business performance in 145 small enterprises in 2005 … across innovation types. The results suggest that during the period of five years, non-innovators have been the best …
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In endogenous growth theory models have either increasing or constant ranges of product variety. Developments in modem biotechnology however show cases of increasing, decreasing or constant ranges of product variants. We present a simple endogenous growth model allowing for all of these three...
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This article reflects on how UK cities are very slowly adapting themselves to the changing world where growth economies, and particularly China, the world’s second largest economy, have become the focus of global policy attention. Most UK cities, accustomed to a highly centralized state,...
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stimulating growth via innovation and internationalisation. This conceptual framework is supported by three propositions and … strategy of a PSF needs to specifically address the role of knowledge and networks for success in innovation and …
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