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Recent theoretical contributions provide conflicting predictions about the effects of product market competition on firms' organizational choices. This paper uses a rich firm-product-level panel data set of Indian manufacturing firms to analyze the relationship between import competition and...
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high growth firms, which are key in innovation and entrepreneurship policies. -- New Firms ; Innovation ; R&D ; firm growth …
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disproportionate effects of innovation for smaller and less productive companies. This points at dynamic strategies as a potential tool …
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This paper examines the role of dual sourcing (e.g., outside options) in vertical and horizontal relations. In a bilateral monopoly market, if either the upstream or downstream firm has outside options, the other firm could lose from seemingly positive shocks, e.g., market expansion or...
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economic prospects, firms had to cut costs and reconsider their business strategies. With respect to innovation, cost cutting … often means to stop or underresource innovation projects which may harm a firm's long-term competitiveness. Firms may … therefore refrain from reducing innovation budgets during crises but rather deliberately allocate more resources to innovation …
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firms' R&D intensities. -- Open Source ; Information and Communication Technologies ; R&D Incentives ; Innovation ; Firm …
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-lag. Network measures are calculated on the basis of 570 knowledgerelated publicly funded R&D alliances. Estimation results from a … panel data count model with fixed effects are suggestive of direct innovation effects due to individual cooperation events …
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Germany. Most of the ICT companies invest in new know-how and achieve - mainly as a result of own investments into research … and development (R&D) - their innovation goals in the medium term. However, the shortage of skilled workers turns out to … be a hindering factor in the innovation process . By contrast, most ICT companies have not been sufficiently suc …
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This study investigates induced productivity effects of firms introducing new environmental technologies. The literature on within-firm organisational change and productivity suggests that firms can achieve higher productivity gains from adopting new technologies if they adapt their...
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production with less environmental impact. This research aims to evaluate the process of technological innovation and integrated … of adequate planning and control of integrated production projects, indicating the need for management innovation as well …
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