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HR contribution to a firm's success examined from a configurational perspective: An exploratory study based on the Spanish CRANET data

Dolan, Simon L.; Mach, Mercè; Sierra Olivera, Vicenta - In: Management Revue 16 (2005) 2, pp. 272-290

The objective in this study was to examine whether a firm's economic/financial success can be associated with the application of certain HRM policies, practices and strategies. In this empirical study, an extended rationale borrowed from a configurational conceptual model was used in order to...

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Learning from trade through innovation: Causal link between imports, exports and innovation in Spanish microdata

Damijan, Jože P.; Kostevc, Črt - 2010

, including data on innovation and trade, we find clear sequencing between imports, exports and innovation. The results suggest … to the relevant technological frontier seem to benefit more from trading activities in tfirms of innovation than the …

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R&D drivers in young innovative companies

García-Quevedo, José; Pellegrino, Gabriele; … - 2011

autoregressive nature of innovation. Using a large longitudinal dataset comprising Spanish manufacturing firms over the period 1990 … in the case of the YICs, suggesting that their innovation behaviour is less persistent and more erratic. Moreover, our … results suggest that firm and market characteristics play a distinct role in boosting the innovation activity of firms of …

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Does Innovation Stimulate Employment? A Firm-Level Analysis Using Comparable Micro-Data From Four European Countries

Harrison, Rupert; Jaumandreu Balanzo, Jordi; Mairesse, … - 2008

This paper studies the impact of process and product innovations introduced by firms on employment growth in these firms. A simple model that relates employment growth to process innovations and to the growth of sales separately due to innovative and unchanged products is developed and estimated...

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Evaluation of public R&D policies: A cross-country comparison

Czarnitzki, Dirk; Lopes Bento, Cindy - 2010

This study focuses on the effect of public funding on internal R&D investment and on total innovation intensity on a … whether or not governments could further foster R&D activities by extending innovation policies to currently not supported …

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Outsourcing and technological innovations: a firm-level analysis

Bartel, Ann; Lach, Saul; Sicherman, Nachum - 2008

This paper presents a dynamic model that analyzes how firms' expectations with regards to technological change influence the demand for outsourcing. We show that outsourcing becomes more beneficial to the firm when technology is changing rapidly. As the pace of innovations in production...

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Outsourcing and technological change

Bartel, Ann; Lach, Saul; Sicherman, Nachum - 2009

We present a dynamic model where the probability of outsourcing production is increasing in the firm's expectation of technological change. As the pace of innovations in production technologies increases, the less time the firm has to amortize the sunk costs associated with purchasing and...

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Strategic adjustment between innovation and production: Generation of integrated archetypes in Spanish service firms

Elche Hortelano, Dioni; Gonzáles Moreno, Ángela - 2008

This paper investigates empirically the strategic alignment between innovation and production strategies in a sample of …

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