. Laggard firms, we suggest, should instead achieveproductivity growth through efficient exploitation of existing technologies … and imitationof industry leaders. Employment growth in leader firms is encouraged whereas growthof backward firms is not … conditional on the firm’s distance to the industry frontier. We usedata on four 2-digit high-tech manufacturing industries in the …

investigates the impact of VAT reform on China firms' fixed asset investment, employment behavior, innovative activities, and … firms' fixed asset investment, and increases firms' capital-labor ratio and productivity; while enhancement of firms …' productivity is mainly achieved by means of substituting labor with capital, rather than independent technology innovation …

Hidden Champions (HCs) are firms unknown to the wider public, but global leaders in the niche markets they serve. This … paper looks at distinctive features of these firms, focusing on their dynamic capabilities. Employing a unique data base on … German firms, we identify a representative sample of German HCs. Based on a matching technique, we examine differences to …

less. Laggard firms, we suggest, should instead achieve productivity growth through efficient exploitation of existing … technologies and imitation of industry leaders. Employment growth in leader firms is encouraged whereas growth of backward firms is … conditional on the firm’s distance to the industry frontier. We use data on four 2-digit high-tech manufacturing industries in the …

firms. Previous findings are not easily applied to the small business literature, and assumptions about the benefits of BSC … effects of SME's use of BSC in terms of financial performance and innovation outcomes. Our arguments are based on the … developmental stage of the firm may influence this trade-off. Based on a survey of 201 SMEs in Spain, we found that firms using BSC …

less. Laggard firms, we suggest, should instead achieve productivity growth through efficient exploitation of existing … technologies and imitation of industry leaders. Employment growth in leader firms is encouraged whereas growth of backward firms is … upper quantiles (corresponding to the leader firms) whereas the innovative efforts of laggard firms are valued significantly …

IBM, which allow to conclude that firms do innovation either because they have to or because this is their comparative … United Kingdom as immediate followers, which all display, on the long run, a negative marginal value added on innovation. The … apparently hostile to innovation, i.e. giving back negative marginal value added on innovation ? A model is introduced in which …