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Trademarks are often supposed to reduce substitutability and imitability of product innovations. Using German CIS data for 2010, we provide empirical evidence that trademarking firms assess easy product substitutability as less characteristic for their competitive environment. This is...
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Hidden Champions (HCs) are small- and medium-sized global market leaders that repeatedly show superior innovation … transformation than non-HCs firms. To test this hypothesis, I use data from the Mannheim Innovation Panel. This allows me to identify …
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, innovation and economic performance at the firm level. We posit that design investments may provide firms with a higher capacity … associated with a non-systematic resort to design, a higher innovation-based performance is coupled with an increasingly more …
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Environmental product innovation (EPI) is an imperative for contemporary business as it enhances firm competitiveness …
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We investigate the role of workers' and managerial experience as a determinant of firm innovation and productivity in a … innovation and productivity. The effect of managerial experience measured by age on firm performance depends instead on the type … of firm: high age of managers and board members is bad for innovation and productivity growth, while costs and benefits …
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The impact of unions on firm performance has been the subject of debate and controversy in most industrialized countries, particularly in the United States and the United Kingdom. The purpose of this chapter is to review and assess the scope and limitations of the economic analysis of unions as...
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the firm's decisions on the innovation level of the new version, the production quantities and prices of both versions … improve both its profit and its innovation level by adopting an appropriate rollover strategy when selling to strategic … existing literature, we see that strategic waiting behavior can accelerate innovation. These analytical insights remain largely …
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Understanding the innovation process of new product development (NPD) is expected to support the company …'s sustainability. This study aims to identify the NPD innovation process in the food and beverage industry in Indonesia. The research … Indonesia. The results show that the NPD innovation process went through several stages, namely: idea generation, filtering idea …
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Until recently, different types of innovation strategy have been introduced in innovation studies. However, their … of different innovation strategies on firms' market performance using the panel data for 2,496 firms obtained from Korea … Innovation Survey (2010). In doing so, we categorize firms depending on whether their products are new to the firm or to the …
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The analysis of new product introduction using discrete-choice demand models has focused on successful products (e.g. the minivan) and their welfare impacts. Instead, we apply this approach to unsuccessful products to provide insight into the reasons for their failure. Our case study is the...
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