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Are firms with different CSR profiles equally innovative? Empirical analysis with survey data
Bocquet, Rachel; Bas, Christian Le; Mothe, Caroline; … - HAL - 2013
This paper explores the relationship between corporate social responsibility (CSR) and innovation from a firm strategic … perspective. Matching Community Innovation Survey data with specific data collected about the CSR behaviour of Luxembourg firms …, adopting responsive CSR practices significantly alters firms' innovation, such that CSR may create barriers to innovation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010757582
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How Do Judgmental Overconfidence and Overoptimism Shape Innovative Activity?
Herz, Holger; Schunk, Daniel; Zehnder, Christian - CESifo - 2013
that the connection between overconfidence and innovation is more complex than the previous literature suggests. In … innovative activity. While overoptimism leads to an innovation enhancing effect, judgmental overconfidence inhibits innovation …. Our results indicate that future research is well advised to take into account that the relationship between innovation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010877694
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Creative Destruction and Productive Preemption
Norbäck, Pehr-Johan; Persson, Lars; Svensson, Roger - CESifo - 2013
We develop a theory of innovation for entry and sale into oligopoly, and show that inventions of higher quality are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010877893
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Demography and Innovative Entrepreneurship
Bönte, Werner; Falck, Oliver; Heblich, Stephan - CESifo - 2007
Demographic change will be one of the major challenges for economic policy in the developed world in the next decades. In this article, we analyze the relationship between age structure and the number of startups. We argue that an individual’s decision to start a business is determined by his...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005094224
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Does cultural diversity help innovation in cities: evidence from London firms
Lee, Neil; Nathan, Max - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011
various links between urban cultural diversity and innovation, at individual, firm and urban level. This paper uses a sample …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010745829
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What do business models do? Narratives, calculation and market exploration
Doganova, Liliana; Eyquem-Renault, Marie - HAL - 2009
innovation process. Rather than debating their accuracy and efficiency, we adopt a pragmatic approach to business models -- we … techno-economic network of an innovation.WP abstract: Analyzes the uses and functions of business models through original …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008790814
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Customers as Predictors of Rent Returns to Innovation and Small Firms – an exploratory study
Mazzarol, Tim; Reboud, Sophie - HAL - 2005
Small to medium enterprises (SME) are frequently associated with high levels of innovation. However, it is difficult … for such firms to fully assess the merits of a particular innovation. This study examined the risk-return profile of … future investment in innovation by SME with respect to anticipated ‘rent' or financial returns. A survey of highly innovative …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008791730
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Top team demographics, innovation and business performance: findings from English firms and cities 2008-9
Nathan, Max - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011125961
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The wider economic impacts of high-skilled migrants: a survey of the literature for receiving countries
Nathan, Max - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014
In recent years, the economics of migration literature has shown a substantial growth in papers exploring host country impacts beyond the labour market. Specifically, researchers have begun to shift their attention from labour market and fiscal changes, towards exploring what we might call...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011126145
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Cultural diversity, innovation and entrepreneurship: firm-level evidence from London
Lee, Neil; Nathan, Max - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013
cultural diversity, innovation, entrepreneurship, and sales strategies in London businesses between 2005 and 2007. London is … entrepreneurship. Overall, the results provide some support for claims that diversity is an economic asset, as well as a social benefit. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011126402