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Corporate Social Responsibility Through an Economic Lens
Reinhardt, Forest L. - 2008
Business leaders, government officials, and academics are focusing considerable attention on the concept of "corporate social responsibility" (CSR), particularly in the realm of environmental protection. Beyond complete compliance with environmental regulations, do firms have additional moral or...
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The Impact of Corporate Sustainability on Organizational Processes and Performance
Eccles, Robert G. - 2012
We investigate the effect of corporate sustainability on organizational processes and performance. Using a matched sample of 180 US companies, we find that corporations that voluntarily adopted sustainability policies by 1993 - termed as High Sustainability companies - exhibit by 2009 distinct...
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Connecting to Power : Political Connections, Innovation, and Firm Dynamics
Akcigit, Ufuk - 2018
Do political connections affect firm dynamics, innovation, and creative destruction? We study Italian firms and their … firms to invest in innovation and/or political connection to advance their productivity and to overcome certain market …
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Skilled Human Capital and High-Growth Entrepreneurship : Evidence from Inventor Inflows
Balsmeier, Benjamin - 2020
To what extent does high-growth entrepreneurship depend on skilled human capital? We estimate the impact of the inflow of inventors into a region on the founding of high-growth firms, instrumenting mobility with the county-level share of millions of inventor surnames in the 1940 U.S. Census....
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Technological Obsolescence
Ma, Song - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
, and reallocation of capital. This finding applies mainly for obsolescence of core innovation and embodied innovation, and … profits of obsolescent firms. The measure contains incremental information about firm innovation relative to measures focusing … on new innovation …
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Globalization and innovation in emerging markets
Gorodnichenko, Yuriy - 2008
, vertical linkages with foreign firms, and international trade on several types of innovation by domestic firms. Using … and innovation and show that the supply chain of multinational enterprises and international trade are also important … channels. There is no evidence for an inverted U relationship between innovation and foreign competition. The relationship …
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Does Innovation Stimulate Employment? A Firm-Level Analysis Using Comparable Micro-Data from Four European Countries
Harrison, Rupert - 2008
This paper studies the impact of process and product innovations introduced by firms on employment growth in these firms. A simple model that relates employment growth to process innovations and to the growth of sales separately due to innovative and unchanged products is developed and estimated...
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Knowledge Management, Innovation, and Productivity : A Firm Level Exploration Based on French Manufacturing CIS3 Data
Kremp, Elisabeth - 2004
knowledge acquisition (A), implementing written knowledge management rules (W). The French 1998-2000 Community Innovation Survey …
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Business Partners, Financing, and the Commercialization of Inventions
Åstebro, Thomas - 2011
This paper studies the effect of business partners on the commercialization of nvention based ventures, and it assesses the relative importance of partners' human and social capital on commercialization outcomes. Projects run by partnerships were five times more likely to reach...
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Business Strategy and the Management of Firms
Yang, Mu-Jeung - 2015
, internal firm organization, performance and innovation, which is representative of the entire Canadian economy. Our empirical … particularly striking for innovation, as firms with some priority in business strategies are significantly more likely to innovate …
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