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Corporate governance and alternative performance measures: evidence from Australian firms

Pham, Peter Kien; Suchard, Jo-Ann; Zein, Jason - In: Australian Journal of Management 36 (2011) 3, pp. 371-386

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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LEADERSHIP STYLES, MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS AND GROWTH: EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE FROM UK OWNER-MANAGED SMEs

WANG, YONG; POUTZIOURIS, PANIKKOS - In: Journal of Enterprising Culture (JEC) 18 (2010) 03, pp. 331-354

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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To What Extent Should Less-Developed Countries Enforce Intellectual Property?

Saint-Paul, Gilles - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

countries (LDCs). It starts by discussing the consequences of IP enforcement in LDCs for global innovation and welfare in poorer …

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The Role of Time in Assessing the Economic Effects of R&D

Kafouros, Mario; Wang, Chengqi - In: Industry and Innovation 15 (2008) 3, pp. 233-251

This study investigates the impacts of R&D on firm performance. It extends previous research by constructing alternative stocks of R&D-Capital that take into account that time plays an important role in assessing the pay-off of industrial research. The results show that even when we employed...

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Knowledge-intensive entrepreneurship and performance during the crisis: cases of the Greek wood industry

Karagouni, Glykeria - In: World Review of Entrepreneurship, Management and … 11 (2015) 2/3, pp. 232-246

understanding of the connections between knowledge-intensiveness, innovation, competitive advantage and performance during the …

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UK Innovation Index: Productivity and Growth in UK Industries

Goodridge, Peter; Haskel, Jonathan; Wallis, Gavin - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

This paper provides an update of the NESTA Innovation Index and tries to calculate some facts for the 'knowledge …

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Innovation vs imitation and the evolution of productivity distributions

König, Michael; Lorenz, Jan; Zilibotti, Fabrizio - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

We develop a tractable dynamic model of productivity growth and technology spillovers that is consistent with the emergence of real world empirical productivity distributions. Firms can improve productivity by engaging in in-house R&D, or alternatively, by trying to imitate other firms’...

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Religion and Innovation

Bénabou, Roland; Ticchi, Davide; Vindigni, Andrea - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015

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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Innovation et responsabilité sociale des entreprises (RSE) dans les entreprises agroalimentaires du Languedoc-Roussillon : le rôle de la performance économique

Temri, Leïla; Giordano, Géraldine; Kessari, Myriam-Emilie - In: Innovations n° 46 (2015) 1, pp. 115-139

The relationship between innovation and CSR has so far resulted in studies that 1) mainly analyze the integration of … dimensions of environmental innovation. Few publications examine the impact of innovation on CSR or the double relationship. The …. A bi-directional relation is confirmed: a commitment to CSR is positively related to innovation and reciprocally, but …

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The impact of autotelic and dynamic capabilities on the performance of knowledge-intensive, low-tech ventures

Karagouni, Glykeria; Protogerou, Aimilia; Caloghirou, Yannis - In: International Journal of Innovation and Regional Development 5 (2013) 2, pp. 210-225

build their strategy on knowledge intensiveness and innovation may develop relatively strong DCs to gain competitive …

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