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Showing 1 to 20 of 30 for “"Firm innovation"”.
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Essays on Organizational Network Communities and Firm Innovation Performance
… an overview of the organizational networks and innovation literature. The chapter introduces the core issues and theoretical debates at the intersection of organizational networks and innovation. It argues that in today’s ever changing and knowledge intensive business landscape, each firm’s …
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Skill composition, firm innovation and economic performance: Three essays
… endogenous growth to examine the determinants of firm innovation. In Chapter 2, I incorporate the composition of skills at the firm level into a model of step-by-step innovation with competition. Developing new technology requires heterogeneous skills as complementary inputs. Each firm determines …
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Social Capital, Cognitions, and Firm Innovation: Theoretical Model and Empirical Studies
Innovation is the central value of economic behavior. In this dissertation research, I attempt to explore the social and cognitive origins of firm innovation through three interrelated studies, by merging several research streams — managerial cognitions, social networks, and innovation, and …
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The Effects of Coopetition and Coopetition Capability on Firm Innovation Performance
… 1) to what extent does coopetition impact firm innovation performance? and 2) to what extent does a firm's coopetition capability influence the relationship between coopetition and firm innovation performance? Despite the popularity of coopetition in both the academic and business arenas, …
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Measuring Firm Innovation and its Relationship with IPO and M&A Activities
This paper examines the changes in firms’ innovation performance around initial public offerings (IPO) and mergers and acquisitions (M&A) using innovation data based on patent applications, new product introductions, and scientific article publications. The quantity of innovation is measured by …
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Underutilized Productive Resources and National Institutions of Corporate Governance: Effects on Firm Innovation Strategy
I investigate the role of underutilized firm resources in motivating firm efforts to innovate. Building on ideas originally articulated by Edith Penrose in The Theory of the Growth of the Firm (1959), I argue that the intensity with which firms engage in innovation development is influenced by …
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FAMILY FIRM INNOVATION: THE ROLE OF LEADER DARK TRIAD PERSONALITY AND SOCIOEMOTIONAL WEALTH IMPORTANCE
<p>Family firms, like other businesses, must innovate to remain relevant in the marketplace. Consequently, in recent years, the topic of family firm innovation has received increased attention from scholars and professionals alike. However, although the field has made substantial progress in …
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Essays on Firm Innovation in Dynamic Product Markets: Examining Competitive Interactions During Technological Commercialization
<p>How can firms gain competitive advantage from available technologies is a key question in strategy. In my dissertation, I develop new theory and provide evidence to show that a firm’s focus in selective technological areas may play a central role of creating competitive advantage in industries …
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Toward a process model of resource orchestration : social capital and qualitative study in family firm innovation
This thesis explores how firms and organisational actors implement the resource orchestration process. Resources are deemed drivers of value creation and interest is growing in the actions that executives take to manage resources. However, empirical research in this area is limited to the analysis …
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The Impact of Firm Ownership on Innovation: Evidence From China
… on the impact of five ownership structures on firm innovation. In this context, innovation refers to firm performance innovation, specialisation innovation and diversification innovation. The results show that concentrated ownership is positively related to firm innovation performance, while …
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Motivations and Outcomes of Firms' Leveraging of Alliance Knowledge
Nowadays, firms increasingly rely on strategic alliances to reach out for unique technological knowledge that firms cannot develop internally. However, in previous literature, we find inconsistent findings regarding the drivers and outcomes of a firm's leverage of alliance partners' technological …
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Essays on Corporate Intangibles and Misconduct
… intangibles or misconduct and their impact on firms. The first essay examines the impact of employee flexibility on firm value, the second essay examines whether the SEC can deter financial misconduct through its enforcement, and the third essay examines the impact of mandating risk disclosure …
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TURBULENCE AND CHANGES
… types influence the potential post-succession firm innovation performance.
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UNPACKING VALUE CO-CREATION USING THE DYNAMIC CAPABILITIES FRAMEWORK
… <p>by</p> <p>Perry L Parke</p> <p>Product innovation and the value it provides have attracted a significant level of attention from scholars and practitioners. Prior research has looked conceptually at how firm capabilities help co-create value between firms and their customers, especially …
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Product Variety, Innovation and Growth
… on the different mechanisms that facilitate innovation and their relative importance in driving growth. Innovation is an important engine for economic growth and considerable effort has been devoted in understanding how technical change drives aggregate growth. Most literature in the field …
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Climate risks, environmental regulations, and corporate environmental management
… risks and opportunities on business firms. Across various strands of the literature on this topic, however, there is still sizeable theoretical and empirical ambiguity around the direction of their impacts and underlying causal mechanisms. As such, this dissertation aims to …
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Climate risks, environmental regulations, and corporate environmental management
… risks and opportunities on business firms. Across various strands of the literature on this topic, however, there is still sizeable theoretical and empirical ambiguity around the direction of their impacts and underlying causal mechanisms. As such, this dissertation aims to …
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Entrepreneurial Resilience, Innovative Behavior and Firm-level Innovation in an Emerging Market
… the influence of entrepreneurial resilience on firm-level outcomes, there needs to be more understanding of the specific passion and environmental uncertainty under which entrepreneurs' innovative behavior can effectively drive the success of firm innovation. This paper aims to fill a novel gap …
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An exploration of familiness through a Bourdieusian mixed methods study of innovation in SME manufacturing firms in the United Kingdom
… of familiness within SME manufacturing family firms in the United Kingdom. The study aims to provide a definitive answer to whether familiness exists in this sphere, explores the nature of familiness and concludes with recommendations for improving the business performance of family firms. The …
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The Impact of Varied Knowledge on Innovation and the Fate of Organizations
… types of knowledge and how they contribute to innovation generation and selection at both the firm and the industry level using the emerging industry context of small satellites. My research is divided into three papers. In Paper One, I take a supply-demand perspective and examine how suppliers …
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