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This paper analyzes the implication of employment protection legislation on a firm's screening process. We present a model in which human-capital-intensive firms (high-tech) with imperfect information about their workers' type attempt during a trial period to identify those incompetent workers...
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competition and to the level of network interaction in the economic system significantly condition the influence of formal …
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The debate on competition and innovation has produced a wide range of theoretical and empirical findings. Recently …, corporate governance quality has emerged as an additional factor that may complement or substitute for competition’s effect on … innovation. We aim to contribute to the debate by investigating whether product-market competition and corporate governance …
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between product market competition and the level of innovative activity in an industry. Recent empirical papers point to an … inverted-U shape relationship between competition and innovation. Our paper offers theoretical support to these results while … show that firms solve this trade-off precisely so as to generate the inverted-U shape relationship. When the competition in …
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competition between U.S. and Japanese companies in electronics-related industries. The model is similar to that described by Piore …
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in EU15 have improved and whether such improvement has been driven by higher levels of competition in EU15 economies. To … this end, we provide a descriptive account of the competition and innovation indicators from 1980-2008. Then, we discuss … the relationship between market structure (level of competition) and innovation; and estimate the impact of the former on …
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Innovation has become a central theme and challenge in the literature of entrepreneurship, SMEs management, and strategic knowledge management and in the literature of organizational learning. Innovation needs a business environment that is conducive to long-term investments in new business...
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Existing research on the relationship between market concentration and innovation has produced conflicting findings. In addition, the emerging literature on the relationship between corporate governance and innovation tends to focus only on partial effects of corporate governance on innovation....
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