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Multinational Firms and Innovation: The Role of R&D Collaboration, Markets and Ownership
Lööf, Hans - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2007
In this paper, we examine the relationship between R&D collaboration, corporate ownership, market orientation and innovation. In doing so, we classify a Swedish sample of 1,249 multinational enterprises, MNEs, on the basis of their main market, corporate ownership structure and whether their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005190545
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Technology Spillovers and Innovation - the importance of domestic and foreign sources
Lööf, Hans - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2007
This paper asks whether there is evidence of higher innovation output from firms where there is more foreign activity in terms of foreign direct investments (FDI), trade and collaboration on innovation, or if proximity between innovators is more important. With a sample of about two-thirds of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005644941
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Corporate goodness and shareholder wealth
Krüger, Philipp - In: Journal of Financial Economics 115 (2015) 2, pp. 304-329
Using a unique data set, I study how stock markets react to positive and negative events concerned with a firm׳s corporate social responsibility (CSR). I show that investors respond strongly negatively to negative events and weakly negatively to positive events. I then show that investors do...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011189254
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Ownership Structure, Board Composition and Investment Performance
Eklund, Johan; Palmberg, Johanna; Wiberg, Daniel - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2009
In this paper the relation between ownership structure, board composition and firm performance is explored. A panel of Swedish listed firms is used to investigate how board composition affects firm performance. Board heterogeneity is measured as board size, age and gender diversity. The results...
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China׳s secondary privatization: Perspectives from the Split-Share Structure Reform
Liao, Li; Liu, Bibo; Wang, Hao - In: Journal of Financial Economics 113 (2014) 3, pp. 500-518
-owned enterprises (SOEs), opening up the gate to China׳s secondary privatization. The expectation of privatization quickly boosted SOE … SOE performance are positively correlated to government agents’ privatization-led incentive of increasing state …-owned share value. In terms of privatization methodology, the reform adopted a market mechanism that played an effective …
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How can we Study Innovation Systems? - introducing an actor-centralised perspective
Broström, Anders - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2008
The systems of innovation approach has helped advocating a view on innovation as dependent on the interaction over time between different actors and brought the role of institutions to the center of interest. However, the approach has remained a general framework rather than evolved into an...
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Outward FDI and company performance in CEECs
Damijan, Jože; Kostevc, Crt; Rojec, Matija - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2014
Using a large sample of micro data we investigate what kind of CEECs-9 (Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia) firms tend to invest abroad, and what is the impact of outward FDI on their productivity. We find that firms with outward FDI tend...
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The Properties of Procedures Dealing with Uncertainty about Intercept and Deterministic Trend in Unit Root Testing
Hacker, Scott; Hatemi-J, Abdulnasser - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2010
The classic Dickey-Fuller unit-root test can be applied using three different equations, depending upon the inclusion of a constant and/or a time trend in the regression equation. This paper investigates the size and power properties of a unit-root testing strategy outlined in Enders (2004),...
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The Location of Industry R&D and the Location of University R&D - How are They related?
Karlsson, Charlie; Andersson, Martin - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2005
During the years, a large number of formal studies have presented evidences of a positive impact of university R&D on firm performance in general and on the location of industrial R&D, in particular. The question is does it also work the other way around? Does industrial R&D function as an...
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Accessibility to R&D and Patent Production
Gråsjö, Urban - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2005
The main purpose in this paper is to study to what extent accessibility to R&D can explain patent production. Therefore a knowledge production function is estimated both on aggregated level and for different industrial sectors. The output of the knowledge production is the number patent...
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