This paper discusses the determinants of product innovation in young innovative companies (YICs) by looking at in …-house R&D is linked to the propensity to introduce product innovation both in mature firms and YICs; however, innovation …

greater survival is achieved when startups engage successfully in both product innovation and process innovation, with a key …

innovation by combining the analysis of both micro and meso levels, i.e. the level of the firm and of the geographical region …. Our findings, based on the Fourth UK Community Innovation Survey (CIS), provide new insights regarding the relationship … between cooperative linkages for innovation and the development of technological capabilities by business units. Firstly, the …

-to-the-world innovation is inherently risky and therefore may increase the probability of firm death. However, many existing studies … fail to distinguish between innovation investments and innovation capital. Using an unbalanced panel of over 290 … innovation and survival and find that current innovation investments increase the probability of death while innovation capital …

alliance formation due to social cues from the photographs being used as a coordination device to facilitate faster alliance …

sports for student-athletes. Anecdotal evidence about the exploitation of student-athletes was cited in the opinion and the …

exploitation to occur, we find that agent compliance is significantly lower for exploitative principals who use high … from them. To corroborate our interpretation of the results we show that a surveyed exploitation aversion scale moderates … this effect. Exploitation averse participants are less likely to comply with the incentives than exploitation tolerant …

Child labor is often condemned as a form of exploitation. I explore how the notion of exploitation, as used in everyday … language, can be made precise in economic models of child labor. Exploitation is defined relative to a specific social welfare … distinctions that common usage of the term exploitation allows. I resolve this conflict by introducing a welfare function with …