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The co-evolution of organizational performance and emotional contagion

Cowan, Robin; Jonard, Nicolas; Weehuizen, Rifka - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2012

performance. An organization is modelled as solving problems or performing tasks. Tasks enter the organization and can be …. We explore the effects of organizational structure and social interactions on performance. …

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Crafting Firm Competencies to Improve Innovative Performance.

Lokshin, Boris; Gils, Anita van; Bauer, Eva - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2008

effect on firms' innovative performance. This study extends this stream of literature by considering the effect of … - do not directly improve their innovative performance. However, those firms that successfully combine customer …

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Human capital, innovation and the distribution of firm growth rates

Goedhuys-Degelin M.D.L.; Sleuwaegen L. - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2015

This paper focuses on the occurrence of high-growth firms in relation to human capital and innovation. High-growth firms are rather exceptional and temporary phenomena and occur in the upper tail of the conditional firm growth distribution. Using quantile regression we study how human capital...

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Is Inter-Firm Labor Mobility a Channel of Knowledge spillovers? Evidence from a Linked Employer-Employee Panel

Maliranta, Mika; Mohnen, Pierre; Rouvinen, Petri - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2008

An employer-employee panel is used to study whether the movement of workers across firms is a channel of unintended diffusion of R&D-generated knowledge. Somewhat surprisingly, hiring workers from others' R&D labs to one's own does not seem to be a significant spillover channel. Hiring workers...

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Empirical studies of innovation in the knowledge driven economy

Hall, Bronwyn; Mairesse, Jacques - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2006

innovation and knowledge management and their impact on performance at the firm level for a number of countries. These studies …

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Taxation and Technology Adoption: A Hotelling Approach

Ziesemer, Thomas; Kriechel, Ben - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2006

Environmental regulation and competitiveness are issues that seem to be at odds. However, the `Porter Hypothesis' states that firms can actually gain in competitiveness if they are subject to stricter environmental regulation. We show in a simple model the basic setting of the problem to apply...

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Importance of Technological Innovation for SME Growth - Evidence from India

Bala Subrahmanya, M. H.; Mathirajan, M.; Krishnaswamy, K. N. - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2010

This paper probes the drivers, dimensions, achievements, and outcomes of technological innovations carried out by SMEs in the auto components, electronics, and machine tool sectors of Bangalore in India. Further, it ascertains the growth rates of innovative SMEs vis-a-vis noninnovative SMEs in...

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Process innovation objectives and management complementarities: patterns, drivers, co-adoption and performance effects

Hervas-Oliver, Jose-Luis; Sempere-Ripoll, Francisca; … - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2012

insights into the poor attention that process innovation variable has received as an indicator of a firm's performance. In … data, findings suggest: (1) most process innovation performance is explained without R&D variables; (2) process innovation … simultaneous co-adoption of management innovation positively moderates and improves process performance (5) product innovation is …

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Innovation and Microenterprises Growth in Ethiopia

Gebreeyesus, Mulu - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2009

This paper addresses two prominent issues on the development of small enterprises in Africa. Which factors inhibit or foster innovation activities in small enterprises? Do innovators create more jobs? We use a large set of microenterprises survey data from Ethiopia that comprise 1000...

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International entrepreneurship and technological capabilities in the Middle East and North Africa

Brach, Juliane; Naudé, Wim - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2012

In this paper we investigate the extent of international entrepreneurship in Algeria, Egypt, Morocco, Oman and Syria using a dataset covering 3,281 firms. We find that weak technological capabilities constrain internationalization. Firms with ISO accreditation, an own website, and those who have...

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