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The reason for contradictory predictions of the models studying the impact of competi¬tion on innovation is the varying … assumptions with respect to competition or innovation type. Thus, we study how the impact of competition changes with different … market com¬petition on innovation is not alike for all types of innovation. We observe an inverse U-shape relationship …
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The reason for contradictory predictions of the models studying the impact of competi¬tion on innovation is the varying … assumptions with respect to competition or innovation type. Thus, we study how the impact of competition changes with different … market com¬petition on innovation is not alike for all types of innovation. We observe an inverse U-shape relationship …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008685041
Indian pharmaceutical industry from a mere importer and distributor of drugs and pharmaceuticals to an innovation-driven cost … productivity and R&D intensity. A host of competitive strategies, like greenfield direct investment, overseas acquisitions …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005619335
Very recently overseas acquisition and outward greenfield foreign investment have emerged as the two important modes of … of different modes of internationalization like inward foreign investment, imports, exports, outward greenfield … investment, overseas acquisition and contract manufacturing including inter-firm strategic alliances. Second, theoretical …
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Discussion of "The Pricing Behavior of Firms in the Euro Area: New Survey Evidence" by S. Fabiani, M. Druant, I. Hernando, C. Kwapil, B. Landau, C. Loupias, F. Martins, T. Mathä, R. Sabbatini, H. Stahl, and A. Stockman (2004); Presented at the Inflation Persistence Network (IPN) Conference on...
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ABSTRACT This research paper focused on the corporate restructuring of Nippon Telegraph Telecommunication (NTT Group) under the pure holding company structure in 1999 and its implications. In order to understand the holding company structure, we introduced the concept of "internal capital...
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This paper examines the impact of investments in modernization and innovation on productivity in a sample of firms in … amounts of employment and capital investment in North America and Europe. In contrast to much of the existing literature which … focuses on the impact of R&D and patents on firms’ performance and productivity, we examine data on actual investment …
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We study how competition and corporate governance may explain investment decisions of Mexican manufacturing firms. We … ownership and control), and market competition may encourage investment decisions. Furthermore they suggest an inverse … census data. Our results suggest that investment is better explained by the Dominance Index, a Mexican measure of …
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The result that firms competing in a Cournot oligopoly with pairwise collaboration form a complete network under zero or negligible link formation costs provided by Goyal and Joshi (2003) no longer hold in multi-market oligopolies. Link formation in one market affects a firm’s profitability...
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competition between U.S. and Japanese companies in electronics-related industries. The model is similar to that described by Piore … exogenous technological change but by repeatedly leapfrogging their competitors through product and process innovation. This … shifts the focus from the mechanical production process to the collaborative innovation process, which requires social …
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