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competitiveness. Furthermore, the moderating effect of the coupling coordination of innovation and standardization was analyzed for … indicated that a company's level of innovation and standardization influences company competitiveness. Moreover, the …
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The Gaidar Institute for Economic Policy has analyzed the state of Russia's light industry and made a comparative analysis of the competitive power of production chains of Russian manufacturers and their principal foreign competitors. The analysis shows low degree of integration of Russia's...
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The protracted recession in the euro area will continue to be a drag on the economic growth of most CESEE countries in …
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This paper formulates a duopoly model in which firms care about relative profits as well as their own profits. Our purpose is to investigate the relationship between the weight of relative performance and R&D expenditure. We find a non-monotone relationship between the weight of relative...
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The paper studied the factors affecting SME competitiveness in terms of their capacity to access, link, and upgrade as … enablers in day-to-day operations and to overall success of SMEs; 2) to describe SME competitiveness in terms of …; and 3) to make recommendations on policy aimed at promoting SME competitiveness. Survey results show that while skills and …
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We find a U-shaped relation between industry concentration and innovation. The relation is driven by neck-and-neck industries where firms operate with similar productivity. When industry concentration is low, innovation intensity decreases as concentration increases. However, when industry...
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We investigate how competition in product niches affects the ultimate timing of product release for experience goods using data on motion pictures in the United States. We identify product niches that movies occupy along three different product dimensions: common actor, common director, and...
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This paper formulates a duopoly model in which firms care about relative profits as well as their own profits. Our purpose is to investigate the relationship between the weight of relative performance and R&D expenditure. We find a non-monotone relationship between the weight of relative...
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Locally owned, northern SMEs often find themselves working out of and in small communities in sparsely populated regions. Using a constructive research design and semi-structured interviews with SMEs from Northern Finland, Norway and Iceland this study highlights the relationship between the...
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