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The Impact of R&D Intensity on Firm Performance in South America

Zhang, Xinying - 2022

This study examines the impact of R&D investment on firm performance. This study limits the time frame from 2016 to 2021, and the data sample is the basic data of listed companies active in South America during these six years. Unlike previous studies, these six years included the outbreak and...

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Environmentally-Oriented Innovative Strategies and Firm Performances in Services - Micro-Evidence from Italy

Mazzanti, Massimiliano; Cainelli, Giulio; Zoboli, Roberto - 2015

with 20 or more employees comprising 1993-1995 CIS II data on firm innovation strategic motivations and 1995-1998 data on … model in which the covariates include firm strategies (innovation and environmental), and a set of other explanatory … negative impact from environmental innovation strategy, implying either a short-medium effect, possibly balanced in the long …

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Internal and External R&D : Complements or Substitutes? Evidence from a Dynamic Panel Data Model

Lokshin, Boris; Belderbos, René; Carree, Martin A. - 2006

We examine the impact of internal and external R&D on labor productivity in a 6-year panel of 304 innovating firms. We apply a dynamic linear panel data model that allows for decreasing returns to scale in internal and external R&D with a non-linear approximation of changes in the knowledge...

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The Contribution of International R&D to Firm Profitability

Peters, Bettina - 2011

Innovation Survey (CIS). The empirical results demonstrate that R&D location matters for profitability. Firms with both domestic …

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Firm Risk Taking versus CEO Diversification : Evidence from Outsourcing Firms

Moon, S. Katie - 2012

I examine CEO compensation in outsourcing firms, using a new database of purchase obligations from firm 10-Ks. I find that the intensity of outsourcing can significantly explain the variations in CEO compensation; the more the firms do outsourcing, the more they pay to their CEOs. Outsourcing...

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R&D Investments in Family and Founder Firms : An Agency Perspective

Block, Jörn - 2014

Investments in Ramp;D can influence a firm's ability to develop new products and to create and adopt innovative technologies that may enhance productivity. However, due to uncertainty regarding the outcome, investments in Ramp;D may lead to an agency problem between the owners and the managers...

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Businessman or Host? Individual Differences between Entrepreneurs and Small Business Owners in the Hospitality Industry

Wagener, Stephanie L. - 2013

Prior research has identified individual characteristics that distinguish business owners from non-business owners. We tested our contention that not every successful business owner can be characterized by such typical ldquo;entrepreneurialrdquo; characteristics. Multiple Analysis of Variance...

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The Role of R&D in Entrepreneurial Finance and Performance

Robb, Alicia - 2014

We extend theories of the firm to the entrepreneurial finance setting and argue that R&D-focused start-up firms will have a greater likelihood of financing themselves with equity rather than debt. We argue that mechanisms that reduce information asymmetry, including owner work experience and...

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What Impact Does Intellectual Property Have on the Business Performance of Technology Firms?

Willoughby, Kelvin - 2014

This paper reports the results of an original empirical study of the relationship between intellectual property and the financial performance of technology firms in the bioscience-technology industries. The study found a statistically significant positive relationship between the firms'...

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Search and performance in ecosystems : the changing role of product architectures

Zeijen, Axel; Marengo, Luigi; Brusoni, Stefano - 2023

A crucial assumption in organization theory is that product architectures form a stable basis on which firms make strategic choices, over a period of time. However, emerging digital technologies challenge this idea, by allowing firms to redesign architectures at will. In this paper, we explore...

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