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performance of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in India and Pakistan. Micro-level data was obtained for 3,492 Indian and …
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performance of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in India and Pakistan. Micro-level data was obtained for 3,492 Indian and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011490750
on the economic performance of firms. My analysis is conducted on a panel of 8,619 patenting firms including 968 green … energy patenters from 22 European countries over the period 2003 to 2010. I measure economic firm performance in terms of … innovation has a statistically significant negative impact on economic firm performance. In contrast, nongreen energy innovation …
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on the economic performance of firms. My analysis is conducted on a panel of 8,619 patenting firms including 968 green … energy patenters from 22 European countries over the period 2003 to 2010. I measure economic firm performance in terms of … innovation has a statistically significant negative impact on economic firm performance. In contrast, nongreen energy innovation …
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CSR into the business as a generator of innovations and thus of economic performance, or 2) focus on the strategic … original scale to measure CSR performance, through the results of a survey of food companies in the Languedoc-Roussillon region … more assertively in the first direction. However, there is a positive effect of economic performance in the relationship …
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African countries lag clearly behind developed countries when it comes to accumulating technological capabilities, upgrading and catching up. Also, firms in least developed countries are characterised by very low levels of absorptive capacity. It is therefore crucial to understand how this...
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This paper draws on the multi-dimensional characterization of absorptive capacity (AC) to empirically investigate the antecedents and the effects of its "potential" dimension (PAC): i.e., the firm's capacity of acquiring and assimilating external knowledge, as distinguished from its "realized"...
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A rich literature links knowledge inputs with innovative outputs. However, most of what is known is restricted to manufacturing. This paper analyzes whether the three aspects involving innovative activity - R&D; innovative output; and productivity - hold for knowledge intensive services....
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innovation and other aspects of firm performance. They suggest that private VC tends to have larger effects than government VC …
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We analyze the link between R&D, innovation, and productivity in MSMEs with a special focus on micro firms with fewer than 10 employees; usually constituting the majority of firms in industrialized economies. Using the German KfW SME panel, we examine to what extent micro firms are different...
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