Firms, especially Chinese manufacturing firms, invest significant resources in innovation activities to sustain their … position in the intensifying competitive environment. However, innovation efficiency has led to growing concerns due to the … rapid increase in R&D expenditures. The purpose of this study is to explore the complicated role of competition on …

this paper, we draw on Schumpeterian models of competition and innovation and stochastic models of firm dynamics to …Theoretical and empirical work on innovation and firm survival has produced varied and often conflicting findings. In … demonstrate that the conflicting findings may be due to linear specifications of the innovation-survival relationship. We …

Network embeddedness is an essential determinant of enterprise innovation, but the mechanism of its impact on … innovation performance remains unclear. Based on resource dependence theory, this study analyzes the influence of structural … embeddedness and relational embeddedness on innovation performance and introduces technological diversification and state ownership …

This study quantifies the impact of process and product innovation on employment growth in Bolivia by using microdata … from a survey on innovation conducted in Bolivia in 2016. Following the model of Harrison, Jaumandreu, Mairesse, and Peters … demonstrate that employment growth is explained by product innovation. On the other hand, we find no evidence of a displacement …

productivity premium. We further investigate the relationship between technological innovation and standard adoption. We find that … certification on productivity is particularly strong for firms with technological innovation. … of firm productivity, focusing on the role played by international management standards certification. We develop and …