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relationship between SMEs' innovative efforts and their performance on international markets. Results clearly identify four … manufacturières québécoises selon leur performance à l'exportation. L'analyse révèle l'existence de quatre groupes qui se …
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This document presents the technological solutions supporting inter-organizational processes, as well as the leading suppliers on the market. Its purpose is not to present an "ideal"" architecture, but to sum up for the manager concepts usually used in technical outlets. The characteristics of...
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This paper proposes a model where firms invest in secrecy to limit technological spillovers accruing to their competitors, in addition to investing in cost-reducing R&D. The main result of the paper is that increases in spillovers increase secrecy, suggesting that legal and strategic protection...
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Understanding the relationship between information technology (IT) investments and productivity has been a challenge …
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We consider the cost of providing incentives through tournaments when workers are inequity averse and performance … envy depending on the costs of assessing performance. More envious employees are preferred when these costs are high, less … à la mesure de la performance. Lorsque ces coûts sont élevés, le principal préférerait des travailleurs plus envieux; à …
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We attempt to answer the following questions: What are the revaluation effects and the impact on performance … liberalization across firms. Large firms tend to exhibit large revaluation effects, insignificant change in performance, large …, improved performance, smaller decline in volatility and decreases in correlation after liberalization. These results hold after …
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This paper investigates the relationship between organizational fit and performance. More specifically internal … between the level of internal coherence and firm performance is assessed in the specific context of SMEs. Results derived from … a particular form of theoretical approach based on fit as gestalt suggest that fit and performance must be interpreted …
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Why do larger corporations have more layers in their hierarchy? My contention in this paper is that hierarchies arise because economic agents have limited ability to anticipate and ascertain every possible contingency they are faced with. As a result, the complete contract may become too complex...
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An extensive academic literature exists on the optimal compensation of top executives. A less-developed literature pertains to the optimal compensation of middle management personnel. The goal of this paper is to address that concern. The setup we use is that of a firm s president (the...
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information can itself be altered by the system's ""complexity,"" which in its extreme from can be described as ""opacity.""" …
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