Objective: The objective of this research is to elaborate a framework that explores the relationships between the performance of high-growth enterprises and the characteristics of regional entrepreneurial ecosystems (EEs). Research Design & Methods: This conceptual article adopts a...

“Digital business ecosystems” (DBEs) reflect the culmination of progressive changes in business models and organizational structure over the last 40 years. The ubiquity of many large DBEs in our economy, society, and political system is troubling, as is their significant market power, which...

“Digital business ecosystems” (DBEs) reflect the culmination of progressive changes in business models and organizational structure over the last 40 years. The ubiquity of many large DBEs in our economy, society, and political system is troubling, as is their significant market power, which...

We analyze the causal impact of the industrial policy structure on the formation of zombie firms, using a rich data set of manufacturing firms in China between 1998 and 2007. We find that selective industrial policy schemes increase zombie shares in skill intensive sectors, because as subsidized...

While countries make use of a wide range of policies to attract multinational firms, identifying the effect of such policies is difficult. Combining firm-level data on both the location of these firms' foreign affiliates and detailed service-specific information from Costa Rica's investment...

Are dominant online search engines monopolies enjoying low contest-ability, due to high barriers to entry, or innovative first-movers? This paper argues that dominant online search engines maintain their leadership through an “innovation feedback loop”: a process whereby increasing R&D...

The configuration of industrial enterprises in Romania, in terms of numbers and structure, in relation to their characteristics, mirrors the Romanian economy and society at large, in their chronological development. Marked by the changes in the technological and economic paradigm, by the...

Multinational production has become increasingly important in recent decades. Countries resort to different industrial policies to influence the geography of this production. In this paper, we focus on a ubiquitous “soft” industrial policy that aims at reducing information barriers -...

This paper is devoted to the study of diversification and specialization influence on one of the main indicators of Russian labour market, the unemployment growth. The purpose of the work is to find out which effects dominate in the Russian regions, Marshallian or Jacobs, and whether this...

Il presente articolo intende fornire una panoramica generale dei primi contratti di rete stipulati in Italia, analizzando le dimensioni delle reti create ed i settori coinvolti, per poi verificare se questo nuovo strumento giuridico è idoneo a favorire lo sviluppo e la competitività...