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Canadian firms adjusts innovation activities, business strategies, and exit in response to large increases in Chinese imports … between 1999 and 2005. On average, process innovation declines more strongly than product innovation. In addition, initially …
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, vertical linkages with foreign firms, and international trade on several types of innovation by domestic firms. Using … and innovation and show that the supply chain of multinational enterprises and international trade are also important … channels. There is no evidence for an inverted U relationship between innovation and foreign competition. The relationship …
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Innovation is important for firm performance and broader economic growth. But breakthrough innovations necessarily … require greater risk-taking than more incremental approaches. To understand how managers respond to uncertainty when making … projects. The results suggest that the risk preferences of managers in charge of research investments may have an oversized …
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divestment to combat climate change. Will it work? This chapter explores whether divestment might induce green innovation, a … critical component of transitioning to a cleaner economy. Divestment could theoretically steer innovation by increasing the … investment opportunities. I argue that continuing to invest in dirty industries could drive green innovation conditional on …
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" about future performance and standard measures of corporate innovation. We begin by developing a career concern model where … probability of failure, are more likely to pursue innovation, and that this effect is larger in more competitive industries. We …
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, internal firm organization, performance and innovation, which is representative of the entire Canadian economy. Our empirical … particularly striking for innovation, as firms with some priority in business strategies are significantly more likely to innovate …
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Using a survey of 800 CEOs in 22 emerging economies we show that CEOs' management styles and philosophy vary with the control rights and involvement of the owning family and founder: CEOs of firms with greater family involvement have more hierarchical management, and feel more accountable to...
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We analyze the performance of Indian banks during 2007-09 relative to their vulnerability to a crisis measured using pre-crisis data, in order to study the impact of government guarantees on bank performance during a crisis. Using bank branch-level regulatory data, we exploit geographic...
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This paper examines the recent upsurge in foreign acquisitions of U.S. firms, specifically focusing on acquisitions made by firms located in emerging markets. Neoclassical theory predicts that, on net, capital should flow from countries that are capital-abundant to countries that are...
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A central premise of research in the strategic management of innovation is that start-ups are able to leverage emerging … imitation. Our findings suggest that staged exploration may stall innovation as a result of the replacement effect, increasing …
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