Spanish Abstract: La presente investigación tiene como objetivo describir y analizar la innovación en las pequeñas y medianas empresas manufactureras ubicadas en Puebla, México. Por lo tanto la pregunta central de la misma es ¿Cuáles son los factores determinantes de la innovación en las...

We explore whether the introduction of trust based working hours is related to the subsequent innovation performance of firms. Employing a panel data set of over 5,000 German establishments, we implement a propensity score matching approach where we only consider firms that did not use trust...

We explore whether the introduction of trust based working hours is related to the subsequent innovation performance of firms. Employing a panel data set of over 5,000 German establishments, we implement a propensity score matching approach where we only consider firms that did not use trust...

Spanish Abstract: El trabajo desarrolla un análisis de las particularidades existentes en la transferencia de conocimientos tácitos en el trabajo desarrollado por las personas (Trabajadores directos) que prestan sus servicios en la industria maquiladora en las MIPYME localizadas en Tehuacán y...

Spanish Abstract: El trabajo desarrolla un análisis de las particularidades existentes en la transferencia de conocimientos tácitos en el trabajo desarrollado por las personas (Trabajadores directos) que prestan sus servicios en la industria maquiladora en las MIPYME localizadas en Tehuacán y...

This paper investigates whether government support can act to increase exporting activity. We use a uniquely rich data set on Irish manufacturing plants and employ an empirical strategy that combines a non-parametric matching procedure with a difference-in-differences estimator in order to deal...

This paper investigates whether government support can act to increase exporting activity. We use a uniquely rich data set on Irish manufacturing plants and employ an empirical strategy that combines a non-parametric matching procedure with a difference-in-differences estimator in order to deal...

This paper investigates whether government support can act to increase exporting activity. We use a uniquely rich data set on Irish manufacturing plants and employ an empirical strategy that combines a non-parametric matching procedure with a difference-in-differences estimator in order to deal...

This paper investigates the relationship between government support for R&D and R&D expenditure financed privately by firms using a comprehensive plant level data set for the manufacturing sector in the Republic of Ireland. Our empirical strategy combines a non-parametric matching procedure with...

This paper investigates whether knowledge accumulating activities, such as exporting, R&D, or worker training, can enhance plants' productivity. To this end we use plant level panel data for Irish manufacturing. Our results importantly indicate that productivity enhancing effects of these...