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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014029873
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014030744
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Human Capital Development and Innovation : The Case of Training in Small and Medium-Sized Firms
Baldwin, John R.; Johnson, Joanne - 2013
facilitated by training is complementary to innovation and technological change. Training incidence is found to be closely related … strategies that are related to innovation. Training is also greater where a firm emphasizes quality and a comprehensive human …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014115498
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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
constitutes a multidimensional approach to industry classification. As different concepts--such as innovation, technology use, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014206021
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014076257
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International Competition and Industrial Performance : Allocative Efficiency, Productive Efficiency, and Turbulence
Baldwin, John R.; Caves, Richard E. - 1998
Trade exerts generally favorable effects on the performance of domestic manufacturing industries in the dimensions of allocative and productive efficiency. We review theory and recent evidence on these linkages and also explore a third effect on the turbulence of competitive conditions and the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014071604
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Differences in Strategies and Performance of Different Types of Innovators
Baldwin, John R.; Johnson, Joanne - 2014
-innovators?based on their responses to 22 innovation-related questions on the survey. These groups correspond to different stages in the … capital. In later stages of the innovation life cycle?comprehensive?place greater emphasis on higher debt/asset ratios. Firms …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014047304
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Canada's Investments in Science and Innovation : Is the Existing Concept of Research and Development Sufficient?
Baldwin, John R.; Beckstead, Desmond; Gellatly, Guy - 2012
Accounts would not be well served by its adoption. In particular, it argues that the appropriate concept of R&D that is … required for the Accounts should incorporate a broad range of science-based innovation costs and that this broader R&D concept … science-based innovation expenditures are to be capitalized, GDP will increase. But it appears that Canada's innovation system …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014209181
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Advanced Technology Use in Canadian Manufacturing Establishments
Baldwin, John R. - 1998
This paper investigates the characteristics of Canadian manufacturing plants that are related to the use of advanced technologies. The data used are taken from the 1989 Survey of Manufacturing Technology and are linked to administrative data taken from the Census of Manufacturers. Technology use...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014081693
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Technology Use, Training and Plant-Specific Knowledge in Manufacturing Establishments
Baldwin, John R.; Gray, Tara; Johnson, Joanne - 1998
Canada surveys that explore advanced technology use by Canadian manufacturing plants. Advanced technology adoption has been …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014115360