This paper explores the contribution of design activities on product market performance of Belgian companies. While there is mounting evidence that design can be seen as a strategic tool to successfully spur sales of new product developments at the firm level, the topic of design innovation has...

In order to understand consumers' fashion purchase decisions better, I determine a product's design typicality and brand prominence based on the theories of processing fluency and conspicuous consumption. Then, I relate these visual characteristics to typical product sales patterns to understand...

Two sources of growth are firm learning and innovation. Using a unique panel data for 1,686 firms in six countries (Bulgaria, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, and Turkey), this paper applies panel data estimators and Juhn-Murphy Pierce decomposition in order to identify the effects of the...