suppliers of multinationals that are pressured by their customers to reduce production costs or develop new products have higher …

- using different taxonomies put forward by the innovation literature - the concrete ways through which an emerging country … where domestic innovation has to be complemented by the role played by international technology transfer. In the second part …

innovation, especially for firms further from the frontier, and that the supply chain of multinational enterprises and … international trade are important channels for domestic firm innovation. We do not find support for the inverted U effect of … competition on innovation. There is partial support for the hypothesis that firms in a more pro-business environment invest more …

compared to those competing on costs. Regarding firm performance, the interaction between a developmental appraisal system and … innovation with administrative performance appraisal also enjoy higher performance. Finally, when the firm competes on the basis …

places substantial firing costs on firms and has a major impact on the decisions of firms to hire disabled workers …

; firing costs …