Purpose - This study investigates how ICT adoption enhances the innovativeness of informal firms in West Africa, using …, these effects varied markedly between Ghana and Nigeria. Firms' spending on R&D, firm giving its employees the chance to … could help firms to introduce innovations into their companies in two West African countries, namely: Ghana and Nigeria …

Purpose - This study investigates how ICT adoption enhances the innovativeness of informal firms in West Africa, using …, these effects varied markedly between Ghana and Nigeria. Firms' spending on R&D, firm giving its employees the chance to … could help firms to introduce innovations into their companies in two West African countries, namely: Ghana and Nigeria …

representativeness of the respondent firms, the model specification and unobservable country-specific effects may partly account for the …

constraints in shaping the innovation-related activities of Chinese firms between 2005 and 2007, in a context of quickly … this contradictive finding. The negative effect of productivity only exists among the non-exporters or mainland-owned firms … in China; firms that are exporting or owned by non-mainland-China capitals spend more on R&D and develop more new …

This paper shows how trade liberalization can have an asymmetric effect on heterogeneous firms. It develops a neo … firms benefit more. These predictions are tested using Mexican plant-level data confirming that, under NAFTA, the … liberalization and shows that more advanced firms benefited disproportionately more from the liberalization. Focusing on the …

the Chinese manufacturing sector. We use a potential market size measure driven only by changes in the Chinese income ….1 percentage points. These findings are robust controlling for export behaviour of firms and supply side drivers of R&D. …

-sectional data of manufacturing firms in six EU countries and in Russia. To address heterogeneity, we explore innovation performance … traditional sector), it favors female-run firms. For CEO age, considering product innovations, the oldest group of CEOs are less … active in European firms while mature CEOs are more innovative in Russia …

The Chinese firms face enormous survival risk in economic transition, with an average life expectancy of less than 4 …