Firms, especially Chinese manufacturing firms, invest significant resources in innovation activities to sustain their … position in the intensifying competitive environment. However, innovation efficiency has led to growing concerns due to the … rapid increase in R&D expenditures. The purpose of this study is to explore the complicated role of competition on …

Although market concentration is one of the main impediments to productivity growth globally, data constraints have … the effects of local industry concentration on productivity. The main results show that a decline by 10 points in the … factor productivity of revenue. Local industry concentration also has heterogeneous effects on productivity across industries …

foreign and domestic competition, the consequences of soft budgets, and the role of managerial incentives and managerial human …