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Export Behaviour and Propensity to Innovate in a Developing Country: The Case of Tunisia
Rahmouni, Mohieddine; Yildizoglu, Murat; Ayadi, Mohamed - HAL - 2011
The relation between export behaviour and the propensity to innovate is an important question for a developing economy. 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009211253
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Leadership, Organizational Learning and Performance in Small and Medium Firms
Therin, François - HAL - 2004
learning and performance is important for managers and researchers. We could hypothesize that, combined with organizational … organizational climate oriented toward innovation or performance. This paper presents the theoretical framework and hypotheses of … this on-going research on the links between organizational learning, leadership and performance in small and medium firms. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010549112
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Revisiting Absorptive Capacity with a Design Perspective.
Masson, Pascal Le; Cogez, Patrick; Felk, Yacine; Weil, … - HAL - 2012
We examine how teams working on radical innovation develop a novel type of absorptive capacity (AC) to make use of external knowledge. In the setting of the semiconductor industry we compare AC in incremental innovation and AC in radical innovation, relying on the most recent theory of design...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010898644
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Horizontal and Vertical Technology Spillovers from FDI in Eastern Europe
Jude, Cristina - HAL - 2012
The aim of our paper is to empirically estimate the direction and magnitude of technological spillovers from FDI using a plant level dataset of Romanian firms for the period 1999-2007. We use the Levinsohn Petrin (2003) methodology in order to estimate total factor productivity and compute...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010821400
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Determinants of the Innovation Propensity in Tunisia: the Central Role of External Knowledge Sources
Ayadi, Mohamed; Rahmouni, Mohieddine; Yildizoglu, Murat - HAL - 2009
This article is dedicated to the analysis of the first innovation survey of the Tunisian firms. Starting from basic mechanisms of innovation processes, we test a set of conjectures adapted to a developing country like Tunisia. We analyze the motivation of firms to innovate and the determinants...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008793447
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Leadership, Organizational Learning and Performance in Small and Medium Firms
Therin, François - HAL - 2004
learning and performance is important for managers and researchers. We could hypothesize that, combined with organizational … organizational climate oriented toward innovation or performance. This paper presents the theoretical framework and hypotheses of … this on-going research on the links between organizational learning, leadership and performance in small and medium firms. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008796018
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Absorptive Capacity: More Than the Volume of Aid, its Modalities Matter
Guillaumont, Patrick; Jeanneney, Sylviane Guillaumont - HAL - 2011
to “least developed countries”, which are the most vulnerable, and finally substituting a performance …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008805119
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Can open source projects succeed when the producers are not users? Lessons from the data processing field.
JULLIEN, Nicolas; Roudaut, Karine - HAL - 2012
Free/Libre Open Source Software (FLOSS) proposes an original way to solve the incentive dilemma for the production 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010898829
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Does diversity of bank board members affect performance and risk? Evidence from an emerging market
Setiyono, Bowo; Tarazi, Amine - HAL - 2014
This study investigates the influence of background diversity of bank board members on performance and risk. Using data …, education level and type) and find significant impacts on bank performance. On the whole, diversity is in general positively … associated with performance except when it relates to ethnicity. It not only reduces performance per se but also increases risk …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010933906
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Les circuits courts alimentaires : vers une logistique plus verte ?
GONCALVES, Amélie; ZEROUAL, Thomas - HAL - 2014
Les circuits courts alimentaires sont réputés plus vertueux d’un point de vue environnemental que les autres circuits de distribution, car ils s’inscrivent généralement dans une échelle géographique restreinte. Cette communication vise à vérifier cette bonne réputation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010936656