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 …

. -- Knowledge capital ; productivity ; innovation ; manufacturing ; services ; knowledge intensity ; Community Innovation Survey …The objective of this study is to investigate the sensitivity of the estimated relationship between innovation and firm … different classifications of innovation. The analyses are performed in both level and growth rate dimensions. The overall …

This paper investigates the relation between product market competition, corporate governance and firm performance in … competition increases. Besides, results depict heterogeneity in the conditional determinants of firm performance between … competitive industries. The findings therefore imply that competition acts as an external mechanism to discipline management and …

Market competition drives organizations to higher efficiency. This paper analyses the relationship between the … prevailing organization's market orientation and marketing innovation activities. The sample of organizations consists of … business enterprises from the manufacturing sector in the Czech economy. Data come from the Community Innovation Survey in 2014 …

Rwandese manufacturing firms; (ii) to assess effects of innovation decision on innovation performance of Rwandese manufacturing … firms; and (iii) to evaluate impacts of innovation performance on financial performance of Rwandese manufacturing firms. To … study resulted in three main outcomes: (i) product innovation is linked directly to the process innovation, meaning that …

international corporate networks for technological development. Such profits through innovation are encouraged by newer more …

The characteristics of product and process innovators among Finnish manufacturing firms with Community Innovation … variable having a symmetric effect on both types of innovation. Cooperation with non-academic outside partners is the only …

We study the strategic positioning of Austrian manufacturing firms that face competition from emerging markets as … more pronounced when firms face competitors from emerging markets. Emerging market competition is associated with a broader …

-percentage-point-increase in the measure of Chinese import competition in El Salvador reduces low-productivity firms TFP by 1 …In this paper, we analyze the impact of Chinese competition on manufacturing firms in El Salvador between 2005 and 2013 … using manufacturing survey data and customs transaction data. We find that Chinese import competition in El Salvador has a …

plant's placement within the productivity distribution. Appreciations of the local currency expose domestic plants to more … competition from abroad as export opportunities shrink and import competition intensifies. As a result, smaller less productive … plants are forced from the market, which truncates the lower end of the productivity distribution. For surviving plants …