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Firm characteristics and informal governance of business operations in the PRD, China
Bickenbach, Frank; Liu, Wan-Hsin - 2011
. Theoretical considerations based on the New Institutional Economics suggest that, in a transition economy such as China, companies … (electronics industry) companies operating in the PRD, China. From this we obtain some, though often weak, evidence in favor of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277349
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Innovation, R&D and Productivity in the Costa Rican ICT Sector: A Case Study
Monges-Gonzalez, Ricardo; Hewitt, John - 2010
This paper addresses the relationships between innovation, research and development (R&D) and productivity in domestic … ICT firms in Costa Rica. Factors considered were the types of innovation outputs produced by domestic ICT firms, the … relative importance of innovation inputs, the impacts of innovation on firm productivity, the protection of innovations, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010328237
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Innovation, R&D and productivity in the Costa Rican ICT sector : a case study
Monge González, Ricardo; Hewitt, John - 2010
This paper addresses the relationships between innovation, research and development (R&D) and productivity in domestic … ICT firms in Costa Rica. Factors considered were the types of innovation outputs produced by domestic ICT firms, the … relative importance of innovation inputs, the impacts of innovation on firm productivity, the protection of innovations, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010246566
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Innovation, R&D and Productivity in the Costa Rican ICT Sector: A Case Study
Monges-Gonzalez, Ricardo; Hewitt, John - Inter-American Development Bank - 2010
This paper addresses the relationships between innovation, research and development (R&D) and productivity in domestic … ICT firms in Costa Rica. Factors considered were the types of innovation outputs produced by domestic ICT firms, the … relative importance of innovation inputs, the impacts of innovation on firm productivity, the protection of innovations, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008504580
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The heterogeneity of employment adjustment across Japanese firms. A study using panel data
Hurlin, Christophe; Lechevalier, Sébastien - Centre pour la Recherche Économique et ses … - 2003
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005022471
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How did the Japanese Employment System Change?Investigating the Heterogeneity of Downsizing Practices across Firms
Lechevalier, Sebastien; Dossougoin, Cyrille; Hurlin, … - Institute of Economic Research, Kyoto University - 2014
Beyond the general issue of institutional change at the aggregate level, some studies have shown that the diversity of Japanese firms has increased since the late 1990s, both in terms of performance and organization. This paper contributes to this literature by investigating the evolving...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010728898
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Why New Business Development Projects Fail: Coping with the Differences of Technological versus Market Knowledge
Van Den Bosch, Frans A J; Burgers, Burgers, J.H.; … - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2007
Managing through projects has become important for generating new knowledge to cope with technological and market discontinuities. This paper examines how the fit between the creation of technological and market knowledge and important project management characteristics, i.e. project autonomy...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010731292
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Human Interaction : The Critical Source of Intangible Value
O'Donnell, David; O'Regan, Philip; Coates, Brian; … - 2005
In this theoretical, empirical and occasionally speculative paper we argue that human interaction is the critical source of intangible value in the intellectual age. This argument is supported with some perceptual evidence on the dimensions of intellectual capital (IC) from the Irish ICT sector....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014062043
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The Naturalist View of Universal Darwinism : An Application to the Evolutionary Theory of the Firm
Stoelhorst, J. W. - 2010
The purpose of this paper is to contribute to recent efforts to ground evolutionary theory in economics in the principles of Universal Darwinism. The paper will contrast two views of evolution, based on the Ultra-Darwinian and Naturalist theory of biological evolution, both of which are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014094313
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Understanding innovation in production networks in East Asia
Wignaraja, Ganeshan - 2013
This paper explores the "black box" of innovation in the electronics production network in East Asia through a mapping … exercise of technological capabilities and an econometric analysis of exporting in the People's Republic of China (PRC … behavior and complement the literature on production networks. The econometric results confirm the importance of foreign …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010397223