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Distance to frontier and appropriate business strategy

Coad, Alex - 2008

This paper is an empirical test of the hypothesis that the appropriateness of different business strategies is conditional on the firm's distance to the industry frontier. We use data on four 2-digit high-tech manufacturing industries in the US over the period 1972-1999, and apply...

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Distance to frontier and appropriate business strategy

Coad, Alex - 2008

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Innovation and firm growth in high-tech sectors: A quantile regression approach

Coad, Alex; Rao, Rekha - 2007

We relate innovation to sales growth for incumbent firms in high-tech sectors. A firm, on average, experiences only modest growth and may grow for a number of reasons that may or may not be related to innovativeness. However, given that the returns to innovation are highly skewed and that growth...

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Sectoral specifities in the dynamics of US manufacturing firms

Bottazzi, Giulio; Secchi, Angelo - 2003

The size distribution and growth rates dynamics of U.S. manufacturing firms have been extensively studied by many authors. In this paper, using the COMPUSTAT database, we extend the analysis to disaggregated data, studying 15 industrial sectors. We find that among the stylized facts presented in...

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Firm growth and R&D expenditure

Coad, Alexander; Rao, Rekha - 2007

We apply a panel vector autoregression model to a firm-level longitudinal database to observe the co-evolution of sales growth, employment growth, profits growth and growth of R&D expenditure. Contrary to expectations, profit growth seems to have little detectable effect on R&D investment....

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Causal inference by independent component analysis with applications to micro- and macroeconomic data

Moneta, Alessio; Entner, Doris; Hoyer, Patrik; Coad, Alex - 2010

Structural vector-autoregressive models are potentially very useful tools for guiding both macro- and microeconomic policy. In this paper, we present a recently developed method for exploiting non-Gaussianity in the data for estimating such models, with the aim of capturing the causal structure...

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Gazelles as Job Creators: A Survey and Interpretation of the Evidence

Henrekson, Magnus; Johansson, Dan - 2008

It is often claimed that small and young firms account for a disproportionately large share of net employment growth. We conduct a meta analysis of the empirical evidence regarding whether net employment growth rather is generated by a few rapidly growing firms - so-called Gazelles - that are...

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Firm growth dynamics under different knowledge regimes: The case of the pharmaceutical industry

Demirel, Pelin; Mazzucato, Mariana - 2007

The paper studies the dynamics of firm growth and firm size distributions in the pharmaceutical industry from 1950 to 2003 and in the biotechnology industry from the early 1980's to 2003. Growth dynamics are studied in the context of how the size composition of firms changes, how innovation...

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Socioeconomic heritage and rapid firm growth

Wyrwich, Michael - 2009

The present paper sheds light on how growth of young firms is affected by expansive strategies and the socioeconomic heritage of their main actors. Socioeconomic heritage has to do with socialization, prior socioeconomic circumstances, and regional growth conditions; the term is elaborated upon...

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Theorie für die Praxis - Zehn Thesen zur wirtschafts- und unternehmensethischen Ausbildung von Führungskräften

Pies, Ingo; Hielscher, Stefan; Beckmann, Markus - 2007

in management education. Against this background, there is a need for interdisciplinary learning between business …) business ethics to management analysis and education. As a first step, the paper argues that business ethics theory needs to … ethics can be easily incorporated into conventional management education. The paper concludes with a proposal for …

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