This paper focuses on the relationship between firms' technological capabilities and different forms of cooperation for innovation by combining the analysis of both micro and meso levels, i.e. the level of the firm and of the geographical region. Our findings, based on the Fourth UK Community...

This paper analyses the demand side of business services outsourcing. Using insights from a number of bodies of literature, the paper interprets business services outsourcing as corporate restructuring involving the administrative functions of the firm. Propositions are developed around the...

The business and academic communities continue to have an interest in the concepts of knowledge management and strategic competencies or core capabilities. This book attempts to establish the links between strategic competencies, knowledge management, organisational learning and innovation -...

This study uses data on Vietnamese manufacturing firms from the World Bank Enterprise Surveys for the period 2002-08 to examine causality between export participation and firm productivity. The analysis focuses on the three hypotheses related to the relationship between exporting and firm...