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The effects of outward FDI on home-country productivity: Do location of investment and market orientation matter?

Hsu, Wen-Chung; Gao, Xingbo; Zhang, Jianhua; Lin, Hsin Mei - In: Journal of Chinese Economic and Foreign Trade Studies 4 (2011) 2, pp. 99-116

Purpose – The paper aims to examine the effects of outward foreign direct investment (O-FDI) on home-country productivity. Design/methodology/approach – A panel data set for 15 Taiwanese manufacturing industries over the period between 1991 and 2007 is employed for a model in which...

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The predictive ability of “conservatism” and “governance” variables in corporate financial disclosures

Smith, Malcolm; Ren, Yun; Dong, Yinan - In: Asian Review of Accounting 19 (2011) September, pp. 171-185

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the extent to which “corporate governance” and “conservatism” variables can contribute to the predictive ability of corporate financial disclosures. Design/methodology/approach – Multiple discriminant analysis is used to differentiate...

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The predictive ability of corporate narrative disclosures: Australian evidence

Smith, Malcolm; Dong, Yinan; Ren, Yun - In: Asian Review of Accounting 19 (2011) September, pp. 157-170

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the relationship between narrative disclosures and corporate performance based on Australian evidence. In particular it builds a model which discriminates between good and poor performing companies based on their corporate narratives....

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Competitive forces and the levers of control framework in a manufacturing setting: A tale of a multinational subsidiary

Hoque, Zahirul; Chia, Maybelle - In: Qualitative Research in Accounting & Management 9 (2012) June, pp. 123-145

Purpose – The purpose of this article is to explore how the strategic change following a corporate takeover impacted the nature and extent of use of the firm's management control systems (MCS), in particular its performance measurement system (PMS). Design/methodology/approach – This paper...

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Firm size, sectors and countries as sources of variety in innovation

Evangelista, Rinaldo; Mastrostefano, Valeria - In: Economics of Innovation and New Technology 15 (2006) 3, pp. 247-270

innovation in industry across Europe. The results presented in the empirical section of this paper are based on a unique database … (SIEPI) containing data drawn by the second Community Innovation Survey (CIS2) for 10 countries, 22 manufacturing sectors and … and explore in detail the differences in innovation processes both within and across European countries and manufacturing …

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Innovation over the industry life-cycle: Evidence from EU manufacturing

Bos, Jaap W.B.; Economidou, Claire; Sanders, Mark W.J.L. - In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 86 (2013) C, pp. 78-91

Empirical research has revealed some regularities regarding the innovation that takes place over the industry life …-cycle. First, innovation is high when an industry is young and low when the industry matures, and second, product innovation … decreases with industry maturity, while process innovation increases. The implications of these regularities are profound, but …

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Productivity growth and competition in spanish manufacturing firms: What has happened in recent years?

Segarra-Blasco, Agustí; Teruel-Carrizosa, Mercedes - Xarxa de Referència en Economia Aplicada (XREAP) - 2006

domestic markets is positive but when the level of competition is high incentives to invest in innovation and productivity … in internal markets in order to increase the incentives for manufacturing firms to invest in innovation and productivity …

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Entrepreneurship and Economic Development: Theory, Evidence and Policy

Naudé, Wim - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

This paper provides an overview of the state of the art of the intersection of development economics and entrepreneurship. Given the relative neglect of entrepreneurship by development scholars it deals with (i) recent theoretical insights from the intersection of entrepreneurship and...

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Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Developing Countries

Naude, Wim; Szirmai, Adam; Goedhuys, Micheline - eSocialSciences - 2011

How does innovation impact on development? How, and under what conditions, do entrepreneurs in developing countries … innovate? And what can be done to support innovation by entrepreneurs in developing countries? This policy brief addresses … these questions and explains the relationship between entrepreneurship, innovation and development. Policy lessons are drawn …

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An anatomy of the geographical concentration of Canadian manufacturing industries

Behrens, Kristian; Bougna, Théophile - In: Regional Science and Urban Economics 51 (2015) C, pp. 47-69

We use detailed micro-geographic data to document the location patterns of Canadian manufacturing industries and changes in those patterns during the first decade of 2000. Depending on industry classifications and years, 40 to 60% of industries are geographically localized, i.e., are spatially...

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