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This study examines whether and how audit quality affects a firm's technological innovation. Using a sample of 7,482 U.S. firms between 2000 and 2009, we demonstrate that high audit quality is associated with lower innovation output, measured by patent counts and patent citations. The effect...
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Dysfunctional audit behaviors behind corporate fiascos are a burning issue in today's ever changing globalized business world. After the Enron scandal that saw the demise of Arthur Andersen LLP., a growing research interest in the field of audit quality is being witnessed. With this negative...
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This study examines the effects of service innovation on financial performance of proprietorship audit firms in Taiwan. This study divides total sample into three business strategy categories, including conventional, non-conventional, and general firms. Non-conventional firms have the highest...
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This research shows that the perceived difficulty of manufacturing a product influences consumers' perceptions of the firm's other products. In three experiments (with 152 participants in Study 1, 86 in Study 2, and 91 in Study 3), participants received information about the quality of a firm's...
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Nigeria. Three research questions and four hypotheses are formulated to guide the study. The methodology employed was a … Ja'iz bank Nigeria plc, the major Islamic bank in Nigeria. A convenient sampling technique was adopted to select the … sample from the population (customers) of the Ja'iz bank plc. in Northern Nigeria. Hence self-administered questionnaire was …
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Background: There is a growing need to understand the determinants of service quality in community pharmacy from the viewpoint of customers. Objectives: The study explored customer perspectives of pharmacy services using quality indicators and proposed a path for quality improvement. Methods: A...
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new. What is new is studying how this relationship fares in latecomer economic contexts such as Nigeria, and that is the … ; collaboration ; external knowledge ; Nigeria ; manufacturing industry …
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This study investigated the impact of knowledge Management on Product Innovation of Manufacturing firms in Nigeria. A …
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new. What is new is studying how this relationship fares in latecomer economic contexts such as Nigeria, and that is the …
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in the Nigeria manufacturing firms. Corporate entrepreneurship and innovation has been of interest to scholars and … sustained competitive advantage in the Nigeria manufacturing firm. Thus, corporate entrepreneurship and innovation has … significant impact on the sustainability of the Nigeria manufacturing firms. The F-value (159.417) indicates that the model is …
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