. This article dedicated to this question through the analysis of the first innovation survey of Tunisian firms. We analyze … the relationship between the export behaviour and the innovation propensity of the firms as it can be qualified using … innovation survey in Tunisia. Our results show that firms that address both the domestic and foreign demands (partial- exporters …

What is the impact of low-wage countries' competition on the quality of high-wage countries' exports? To answer this … question, we develop a new method that uses firm-level data to measure quality changes in sectoral exports. Over 1995-2005, we … measure a 11% increase in the mean quality of France's aggregate exports, driven by a reallocation of demand in favor of …

information goods, based on von ippel's user-as-innovator principle (1988): as users benefit from innovation, they have incentive … to produce it, and as they can expect cumulative innovation on their own proposition, they have incentive to share it …

Outsourcing is one of the top priorities on the strategic agenda of Original Equipment Manufacturers [OEMs] in many … industries. The decision of outsourcing an activity as opposed to doing it in-house and the development of a part or parts system … specifications might play in outsourcing decisions. Based on how the specification is generated and on the nature of the data it …

We deal with the problem of outsourcing the debt for a big investment, according two situations: either the firm …

contemplate IT outsourcing have two alternatives: (1) outsource part of their IT activity (i.e., "selective outsourcing") or (2 …) outsource their entire IT activity (i.e., "total outsourcing"). It has been repeatedly reported that total IT outsourcing …

outsourcing have two alternatives: (1) a contract with a vendor (i.e., outsourcing) or (2) setting up their own IT subsidiary (i ….e., quasi-outsourcing). This study examines some of the determinants of the outsourcing versus quasi-outsourcing decision. Using …

Intellectual Property (IP), we answer questions such as: why should IP be outsourced; how should the outsourcing of IP activities …