Building on a rich dataset with information on 65,000 firms and 465,000 European patent applications from 1978 to 2000, this paper addresses the geographical amplitude of international technology generation. First, we show that the number of countries hosting international technological...

This paper supplies a measure of the degree of firms innovation performance. This indicator summarizes the impact of technological innovation activities on products, processes and sustainability of the firms. The data set used in this study was drawn up from the 2006 Panel on Technological...

En este artículo se aporta una medida del grado de desempeño innovador de la empresa. Este indicador resume los efectos de las actividades de innovación tecnológica en los productos, en los procesos y en la sostenibilidad de la empresa. Los datos proceden de las empresas españolas,...

We discuss and examine empirically a firm-level equivalent of the ancient problem of 'tying the King's hands', namely how to avoid managerial intervention that is undertaken to reap private benefits but is harmful to overall value creation, that is, 'managerial opportunism'. The link from...

The paper explores the consequences that relying on different behavioral assumptions in training managers may have on their future performance. We argue that training with an emphasis on the standard assumptions used in economics (rationality and self-interest) is good for technical posts but...

Economic theory regarding moral hazard at work is somewhat at odds with recent business evidence. Whereas firms in economically and technologically stable environments could apparently follow conventional wisdom when trying to reduce moral hazard through tight supervision and incentive packages,...

The New Institutionalism incorporates several approaches of institutional analysis from several social sciences. Among these approaches, the New Institutional Economics has propelled several advances in contemporaneous institutional analysis. Methodological pluralism has characterized this...