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Corporate governance and innovation: A theoretical review
Asensio-López, Diego; Cabeza-García, Laura; … - In: European Journal of Management and Business Economics … 28 (2019) 3, pp. 266-284
governance and innovation, explaining how different internal corporate governance mechanisms may be determinants of business … innovation. Design/methodology/approach It explores the theoretical background and the empirical evidence regarding the influence … of both ownership structure and the board of directors on company innovation. Then, conclusions are drawn and possible …
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Assessment of factors affecting innovation policy in biotechnology
Aghmiuni, Samira Khodi; Siyal, Saeed; Wang, Qiang; … - In: Journal of Innovation & Knowledge (JIK) 5 (2020) 3, pp. 180-190
for countries. For this purpose, innovation policies in biotechnology have been addressed here. This study draws on the … government supportive innovation policies. The statistical population of this study consisted of 165 responses from the directors …, international corporate collaboration policies and government supportive innovation policies have a significant impact on the …
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Where'd you get that idea? Determinants of creativity and impact in popular music
Mueller, Bernardo - In: EconomiA 22 (2021) 1, pp. 38-52
What are the determinants of creativity, novelty, and innovation? In this paper I explore this question through an …
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Does a Short-Term Increase in Incentives Boost Performance?
Angelova, Vera; Giebe, Thomas; Ivanova-Stenzel, Radosveta - 2017
If agents are exposed to continual competitive pressure, how does a short-term variation of the severity of the competition affect agents\' performance? In a real-effort laboratory experiment, we study a one-time increase in incentives in a sequence of equally incentivized contests. Our results...
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Family firms types based on beliefs
Manzano-García, Guadalupe; Neveu, Jean-Pierre; … - In: European Research on Management and Business Economics … 29 (2023) 3, pp. 1-9
The purpose of this study was to find an effective way of identifying homogeneous family firm groups, based on the prevailing beliefs of the owning family on ownership, management and intergenerational transmission. We conducted a two-stage cluster analysis, using data from a representative...
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Bank-specific and macroeconomic determinants of profitability: A revisit of Pakistani banking sector under dynamic panel data approach
Ur Rahman, Habib; Yousaf, Muhammad Waqas; Tabassum, Nageena - In: International Journal of Financial Studies 8 (2020) 3, pp. 1-19
This study aims to examine the effect of the bank-specific and macroeconomic determinants of profitability for the banking sector of Pakistan. To incorporate the issues of endogeneity, unobserved heterogeneity, and profit persistence, we apply a generalised method of moments (GMM) technique...
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Financial risk and financial performance: Evidence and insights from commercial and services listed companies in Nairobi Securities Exchange, Kenya
Kerubo Onsongo, Susan; Muathe, Stephen M. A.; Wamugo … - In: International Journal of Financial Studies 8 (2020) 3, pp. 1-15
In Kenya, the last few years has seen the performance of companies listed under the commercial and services segment on the Nairobi Securities Exchange (NSE), experience mixed fortunes. The study sought to assess the implications of financial risk on the performance of these companies. The study...
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"No Man is an Island": An Empirical Study on Team Formation and Performance
Allocca, Alessandra - 2023
Do self-formed teams perform better than other team structures? Using unique data from Virgo, a Nobel-prize-winning scientific organization with self-formed teams, first, I uncover new evidence on team formation and performance. Then, I develop a structural model to i) estimate which teams...
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Diversity and the technological impact of inventive activity: Evidence for EU regions
Morescalchi, Andrea; Hardeman, Sjoerd - 2015
Diversity is considered key to research, innovation and growth. However, throughout the literature, the exact meaning … diversity and innovation directly. To fill in this gap in the literature, this paper offers an empirical analysis of the … relationship between technological diversity and the impact of innovation at the EU regional level whilst including different …
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From Ghana to America: The Skill Content of Jobs and Economic Development
Lo Bello, Salvatore; Sanchez Puerta, Maria Laura; … - 2019
There is a growing body of literature exploring the skill content of jobs. This paper contributes to this research by using data on the task content of occupations in developing countries, instead of U.S. data, as most existing studies do. The paper finds that indexes based on U.S. data do not...
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