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Complementarity between technology make and buy in innovation strategies: Evidence from Belgiam manufacturing firms
Cassiman, Bruno; Veugelers, Reinhilde - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 1998
This paper characterizes the innovation strategy of manufacturing firms and examines the relation between the … innovation strategy and important industry-, firm- and innovation-specific characteristics using Belgian data from the Eurostat … Community Innovation Survey. In addition to important size effects explaining innovation, we find that high perceived risks and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005771954
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E-supply chain management: Review, implications and directions for future research
Giménez, Cristina; Ramalhinho-Lourenço, Helena - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2004
This paper analyses the interaction of two topics: Supply Chain Management (SCM) and Internet. Merging these two fields is a key area of concern for contemporary managers and researchers. They have realized that Internet can enhance SCM by making real time information available and enabling...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005572655
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R&D cooperation and spillovers: Some empirical evidence
Cassiman, Bruno; Veugelers, Reinhilde - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 1998
This paper provides some first empirical evidence on the relationship between R&D spillovers and R&D cooperation. The results suggest disentangling different aspects of know-how flows. Firms which rate incoming spillovers more importantly and who can limit outgoing spillovers by a more effective...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005772409
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Organisational change and the productivity effects of green technology adoption
Hottenrott, Hanna; Rexhäuser, Sascha; Veugelers, Reinhilde - 2016 - This version January 2016
This study investigates induced productivity effects of firms introducing new environmental technologies. The literature on within-firm organisational change and productivity suggests that firms can achieve higher productivity gains from adopting new technologies if they adapt their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011411433
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External technology sources: Embodied or disembodied technology acquisition
Cassiman, Bruno; Veugelers, Reinhilde - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2000
This paper analyzes the choice between different innovation activities of a firm. In particular, we study the … technology acquisition decision of the firm, i.e. its technology BUY decision as part of the firm's innovation strategy. We take …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005704868
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Raising EU productivity through innovation
Veugelers, Reinhilde; Warzynski, Frederic - 2022
improved products through product innovation, and makes firms more efficient at producing goods through process innovation … relationship between productivity growth, innovation and digital technology adoption plays out is particularly important for the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013373114
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Reverse logistics in the editorial sector: An exploratory study
Giménez, Cristina; Ramalhinho-Lourenço, Helena; Soto, … - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2005
Nowadays, the Reverse Logistics field is becoming very important. On one hand, laws are imposing companies to be responsible for the contamination made by their products. On the other hand, companies have discovered the profits derived from a good Reverse Logistics process. This paper is the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005772358
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Drivers and sources of supply flexibility: An exploratory study
Tachizawa, Elcio Mendonça; Giménez, Cristina - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2005
Purpose - There has been much research on manufacturing flexibility, but supply chain flexibility is still an under-investigated area. This paper focuses on supply flexibility, the aspects of flexibility related to the upstream supply chain. Our purpose is to investigate why and how firms...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005772593
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Logistics integration processes in the food industry
Giménez, Cristina - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2003
This paper analyses the integration process that firms follow to implement Supply Chain Management (SCM). This study has been inspired in the integration model proposed by Stevens (1989). He suggests that companies internally integrate first and then extend integration to other supply chain...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005572644