This article examines business practices focused on knowledge and innovation and the relationship of these business practices with other key organisational variables in Canadian and US firms. The article is based on a 1996 study of 103 Fortune 500 and 151 Post 300 firms. The study was sponsored...

El objetivo de este estudio es analizar la calidad de la información sobre endeudamiento recogida por la Encuesta Financiera de las Familias (EFF). Para ello, implementamos un cruce de los datos de esta con los datos administrativos de la Central de Información de Riesgos (CIR), que contiene,...

El objetivo de este estudio es analizar la calidad de la información sobre endeudamiento recogida por la Encuesta Financiera de las Familias (EFF). Para ello, implementamos un cruce de los datos de esta con los datos administrativos de la Central de Información de Riesgos (CIR), que contiene,...

How do private returns to inventive activity change when IPR regimes are substantially strengthened? Our paper investigates this question by looking at the impact of patent reforms in India on India-based pharmaceutical companies. In a fundamental policy shift, India agreed to introduce product...

We examine the value relevance and reliability of brand assets recognized by 33 UK firms, and the stock price reaction to the announcement of brand capitalization. We find that brand assets are value relevant, i.e., associated with market values. However, the market capitalization rates of...

This paper models the investment behaviour of a multi-asset firm with market power that accumulates valuable intangible assets to complement the IT capital. The investment model is estimated using data from Spanish banks on assets of different nature: material (branches, financial), immaterial...