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Differences in Strategies and Performance of Different Types of Innovators

Baldwin, John R.; Johnson, Joanne - 2014

The strategies and competencies of small and medium-sized firms are explored here using the responses to the Survey of Growing Small and Medium Size Enterprises, conducted by Statistics Canada. The paper classifies small and medium-sized firms by innovator type and explores the complementary...

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Are There High-Tech Industries or Only High-Tech Firms? Evidence from New Technology-Based Firms

Baldwin, John R.; Gellatly, Guy - 1999

Considerable attention has been directed at understanding the structural changes that are generating an increased need for skilled workers. These changes are perceived to be the result of developments associated with the emergence of the new knowledge economy, whose potential is often linked to...

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Productivity Growth, Plant Turnover and Restructuring in the Canadian Manufacturing Sector

Baldwin, John R. - 1998

Firm turnover occurs as firms gain and lose market share as part of the competitive struggle. The reallocation of market share from one group to another is associated with productivity gain as the less productive lose share and the more productive gain market share. This paper examines the...

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Innovation : The Key to Success in Small Firms

Baldwin, John R. - 2014

This study examines the differences in strategies and activities pursued by a sample of more-successful and less-successful group of growing small-and medium-sized enterprises. Amongst other matters, it examines different functional strategies--the importance of management, human resource...

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Business Strategies in Innovative and Non-Innovative Firms in Canada

Baldwin, John R.; Johnson, Joanne - 2000

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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International Competition and Industrial Performance : Allocative Efficiency, Productive Efficiency, and Turbulence

Baldwin, John R.; Caves, Richard E. - 1998

Canada over 1973-1992 indicate, with time and industry effect controlled, market-share turnover, entry, exit, and mergers all …

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Adaptation par selection et adaptation evolutive : apprentissage et performance apres l'entree

Baldwin, John R.; Raffiquzzaman, Mohammed - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 1995

Ce document se penche sur le processus maturationnel des entreprises qui font leur entree dans une branche d'activite economique en construisant de nouvellesusines et examine dans quelle mesure l'amelioration de la performance de la cohorte des entrants est le resultat d'une selection qui...

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Un portrait des entrees et des sorties

Baldwin, John R. - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 1999

L'entree et la sortie sont des phenomenes importants. Ce document presente des donnees demontrant l'ampleur de ce processus et sa contribution a la productivite et a l'innovation. Il dresse ensuite un bilan detaille des caracteristiques des nouvelles entreprises qui survivent et de celles qui...

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L'importance de l'entree dans le secteur canadien de la fabrication : document accompagne d'une annexe sur les questions de mesure

Beckstead, Desmond; Baldwin, John R.; Girard, Andree - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 2002

Pour comprendre l'importance du processus dynamique d'entree dans l'economie canadienne, il faut en mesurer l'etendue. Ce document vise principalement a resumer l'information dont nous disposons sur l'envergure de l'entree dans l'economie du Canada. Ce document vise egalement un second but....

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The Importance of Entry to Canadian Manufacturing with an Appendix on Measurement Issues

Beckstead, Desmond; Baldwin, John R.; Girard, Andree - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 2002

Understanding the importance of the dynamic entry process in the Canadian economy involves measuring size of entry. The … main purpose of this paper is to summarize the information we have on the amount of entry in Canada. The paper also …). Interpretation of the results of these studies is difficult unless methodological issues regarding how entry is measured are …

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