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This paper examines the determinants of innovation and the role of innovation in productivity growth, shifts in market … share and survival in the Canadian manufacturing sector. The paper presents a model that examines the effect of innovation … plant performance both before and after the introduction of an innovation. We find strong evidence that labour productivity …
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This study investigates differences in the policies being pursued by innovative and non-innovative firms. It focuses on a broad group of strategies in marketing, finance, production, management and human resources and asks whether there are key areas in which the strategies being followed by...
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This paper summarizes the results of several research studies conducted by the Micro-economic Analysis Division of Statistics Canada that investigate the impact of advanced technology use on business performance. These studies combine establishment-level survey data on advanced technology...
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This paper summarizes the findings of a research program aimed at outlining the importance to the firm growth process of competencies that arise from investments in intangible assets. The program has consisted of two parts. First, longitudinal databases have provided a rich set of studies on...
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, probably through its impact on product innovation. The market rewards those businesses that managed to improve their efficiency …
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The need for effective board management and good corporate performance lies at the heart of good corporate governance theory because as the agency theory contends the managers' interest and the interest of shareholders are not almost always the same. Good corporate performance is the basis of...
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Key performance ratios indicate the underlying level of performance and health of the enterprise. Therefore, understanding the components of the final accounts and their performance ratios is important because of the crucial nature of ROE. Even though PRA represents one of the best ways to...
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