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-organisational configurations of these factories confirm that this wave of technological innovation is far from leading to total automation or the …
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We explore the extent to which the current technological trend, dubbed Industry 4.0, might increase forms of control inside organisations, by focussing on pivotal firms in the so-called Italian Motor Valley currently embracing its adoption. We find that Industry 4.0 technologies open up great...
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The study of the co-evolution of processes of technological innovation and the resulting organisational changes has …
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investigate the nexus between the use of non-standard work and innovation performance using data for 18 manufacturing and 23 … arrangements and the introduction of both product and process innovation. Furthermore, we show that the harmful consequences of the … spread of non-standard work on firms' product innovation propensity are more pronounced in high-tech sectors. …
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In this work, we explore the relations between sales growth and a set of innovation indicators that capture the … different sources, modes and results of the innovative activity undertaken within firms. We exploit a rich panel on innovation …-2011. Standard GMM-panel estimates of the average effect of innovation activities reveal significant and positive effect for internal …
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In 2015, the European Commission decided upon new political directions toward open innovation. Our aim is to assess to … which extend the European Innovation Prizes are enshrined in the open innovation‘s movement. 22 innovation’s prizes have … show that if a degree of openess is noted, European Innovation prizes could tend toward greater citizens’ inclusivity. From …
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Innovation is one of the usual suspects in defining differences in performance among firms, according to a strong and … to elaborate appropriate innovation policies. Our study explores the diversity of innovation patterns among Norwegian … firms included in the 2018 Community innovation survey (CIS2018). By applying factor analysis on a wide array of survey …
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thanks to their ability in undertaking technological innovation, few empirical studies have explicitly addressed this issue …. This article examines the innovation-employment nexus for start-ups using the Kauffman Firm Survey (KFS), a unique … regressions indicate an overall positive but heterogeneous effect of innovation activities on the conditional employment growth …
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A large body of research has investigated the impact of industrial relations on workplace innovation. Econometric … research based on U.S. data suggests that unions are detrimental to innovation, while evidence from Europe is more mixed. This … points to the importance of "contextualized" theorizing about the effects of industrial relations on firm-level innovation …
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Using firm level data this study investigates the relation between export activity and firm’s profitability. The paper shows that, contrary to other performance indicators such as productivity, exporting activity is not systematically associated to higher firm’s profitability. This is shown...
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