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Coordinating R&D efforts for quality improvement along a supply chain
Lambertini, Luca - 2016
The optimal design of two-part tariffs is investigated in a dynamic model where two firms belonging to the same supply chain invest in R&D activities to increase the quality of the final product. It is shown that the replication of the vertically integrated monopolist's performance can be...
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Enterprise systems and innovations
Engelstätter, Benjamin - 2009
also show a positive impact on process innovation intensity. These results do not only emerge for the short-run of two …-run and vanishes if the long-run perspective is taken into account. -- Innovation ; Product Innovation ; Process Innovation …
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Knowledge spillovers through international supply chains
Piermartini, Roberta; Rubínová, Stela - 2014 - Manuscript date: 23 July 2014
We also show that the evidence that knowledge spillovers flow along the supply chains is more robust than the traditional finding that knowledge spillovers depend on geographical distance or trade flows. Our findings support policies that favour participation in supply chains to foster economic...
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Russia's experience of foresight implementation in global value chain research
Meshkova, Tatiana A.; Moiseichev, Evgenii IA. - In: Journal of innovation and entrepreneurship : JIE 5 (2016) 9, pp. 1-35
methodology based on the latest trend to combine the approaches of global value chain and national innovation system research. The … with regional and national innovation-based development tendencies become of crucial importance. Application of foresight …
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Corporate Innovation along the Supply Chain
Chu, Yongqiang - 2017
In this paper, we document a positive effect of supplier-customer geographic proximity on supplier innovation. To … of supplier-customer proximity on supplier innovation is stronger when customers are more innovative themselves, when … through which supplier-customer proximity affects supplier innovation. Overall, our paper sheds new light on the real effect …
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Do Social Connections Mitigate Hold-Up and Facilitate Cooperation? Evidence from Supply Chain Relationships
Dasgupta, Sudipto - 2020
/director retirements or deaths and find that innovation drops for affected suppliers after the departure of socially connected individuals …
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Common Ownership along the Supply Chain and Supplier Innovations
Chen, Xian - 2021
ownership of suppliers and customers on suppliers’ innovation activities. I find suppliers’ investment in innovation, quantity … and quality of innovation output increase when common owners control higher fractions of their and their customers’ shares … outstanding. The impact of this vertical common ownership on innovation input and quality of innovation output is stronger and …
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The uneven spread of Global G.A.P. certification
Flachsbarth, Insa; Grassnick, Nina; Brümmer, Bernhard - 2020
GlobalG.A.P. compliance has often become a key requirement for farmers to access high-value global markets. Yet, the global spread of certification is highly uneven among countries. We assess the drivers and dynamics behind these unequal patterns, applying panel data regressions. Findings show...
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Innovation and Technology Diffusion in Competitive Supply Chains
Aydin, Ayhan - 2017
Innovations in consumer products frequently rely on technological advances across multiple tiers in a supply chain. Considering the consumer market demand and downstream investment conditions as input, we model a game in a two-tier supply chain where downstream firms choose to adopt different...
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Innovative Supplier Management Processes for Sustainability - Explorative Findings from German Stock Corporations
Harms, Dorli; Hansen, Erik G.; Schaltegger, Stefan - 2011
Companies which have to manage global supply chains face a high level of complexity in that there is a large number of suppliers in diverse socio-economic contexts as well as a growing demand for control of social and environmental criteria in these supply chains. Sustainable supply chain...
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