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Firm Size, Technological Capabilities and Market-Oriented Policies in Mauritius
Wignaraja, Ganeshan - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2001
Mauritius is an outlier in Sub-Saharan Africa for its impressive manufactured export performance based on garments since the adoption of market-oriented policies in the early 1980s. Little, however, is known about the role played by internal technological factors on the exporting behaviour of...
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Human resource management and learning for innovation: pharmaceuticals in Mexico
Santiago-Rodriguez, Fernando - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2010
pharmaceutical firms in Mexico. Results show that the influence of human resource management is contingent on the knowledge flows and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010712046
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Facing the Trial of Internationalizing Clinical Trials to Developing Countries: Some Evidence from Mexico
Santiago-Rodriguez, Fernando - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2008
paper critically addresses some of these issues with particular reference to Mexico. The latter case equally illustrates …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010712249
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Determinants of PRO-industry interactions in pharmaceutical R&D: the case of Mexico
Santiago-Rodriguez, Fernando; Dutrenit, Gabriela - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2010
developing countries. But why this is so? Based on evidence from the pharmaceutical industry in Mexico, this paper identifies …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010712332
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Firms’ Learning Capabilities under a New Economic Environment: A Case Study of Mexican Auto Parts Firms
Vallejo, Bertha - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2005
The study presented in this paper describes preliminary findings on changes in the adoption of different learning mechanisms before and after the implementation of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), based on a study of 193 Mexican automotive firms. The results obtained give us...
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Beyond technological catch-up: An empirical investigation of further innovative capability accumulation outcomes in latecomer firms with evidence from Brazil
Figueiredo, Paulo N. - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2013
. Drawing on fieldwork evidence from pulp and paper firms in Brazil (1950-2010), it was found that: (1) the firms accumulated …
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Thinking locally: Exploring the importance of a subsidiary-centered model of FDI-related spillovers in Brazil
Marin, Anabel; Costa, Ionara - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2009
This paper investigates FDI-related spillovers in Brazil for the period 1996-2005. In contrast to most previous recent … arise in Brazil. However, they did not arise simply as a consequence of general FDI-mediated technology transfer from MNC …
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The impact of innovation activities on productivity and firm growth: evidence from Brazil
Goedhuys, Micheline - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2007
Using micro data from Brazilian manufacturing firms, this paper investigates the impact of a wide set of innovation activities on firms' total factor productivity (TFP) and its subsequent effect on firm growth, measured by sales. Controlling for size and age of the firms, productivity levels and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010712090
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Firms' innovation capability-building paths and the nature of changes in learning mechanisms: Multiple case-study evidence from an emerging economy
Figueiredo, Paulo N.; Cohen, Marcela; Gomes, Saulo - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2013
examining the relationships between these issues based on fieldwork evidence from 13 natural resource-processing firms in Brazil …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010712108
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Catching up in pharmaceuticals: a comparative study of India and Brazil
Guennif, Samir; Ramani, Shyama - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2010
Since the mid-twentieth century, the national objective of India and Brazil has been to develop industrial capabilities …. However, over fifty years, India has had much more success in building indigenous capabilities in pharmaceuticals than Brazil …
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