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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Firm-level innovation"”.
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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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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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Innovation persistence during economic crisis by Nigeria's construction contracting firms : an investigation of the critical success factors
Innovation is viewed by many as a driving force for sustainable economic and social change. However, it has been established that economic crisis impacts firm level innovations. The extent of the impact on firm level innovations differs widely across countries and industries. In the case of …
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Exploring the benefits and challenges of embedded innovation : multiple cases from Jordanian mobile telecoms
This research offers a framework of embedded innovation systems (EIS) that helps understand the mechanisms, drivers, and challenges that encounter multinational mobile telecoms while developing and deploying their services based on this system. Using a case evidence, a purposive sample of …
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A THREE PART ESSAY ON THE ROLE OF GOVERNMENT SUBSIDIES ON FIRM LEVEL INNOVATIVE CAPACITY A SYNTHESIS OF EFFECT, PRODUCTIVITY AND PROFITABILITY.
… contains three essay that look to the effect of innovations given a diverse set of measures. The purpose of the first chapter, which is divided into two levels, is two-fold. First, via a Probit model, we assess the effect subsidies have on firm level innovation and determine if these effects …
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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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Organising for innovation. A case study of innovation teams and team leadership in a large, R&D intensive firm
Successful innovation is vital for firm survival and success (Dougherty, 2004). Leaders of established companies acknowledge that radical innovation, in particular, is critical to their growth and renewal (Leifer et al, 2000). This is especially true for the research and development sector …
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Role of science parks in the development of technology-based small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Malaysia
… the widespread assumption that science park firms are more innovative and R&D-intensive resulting in greater innovation output, growth and profitability than off-park firms. Science parks are supposed to provide a value added environment to enhance innovation and competitiveness of small and …
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Innovation capability and firm performance heterogeneity in the small and medium sided enterprise sector
… to find empirical evidence for the effect of firm-level innovative activity as a new source of firm performance heterogeneity. It also proposes several innovation indicators that measure a firm’s capability to innovate so as to help understand the innovation of small medium sized enterprise …
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Essays on industry linkages and foreign direct investment : evidence from Nigeria
… Unique data obtained from a survey ofNigerian firms conducted by the World Bank Enterprise Survey Department was employedfor the estimations based on manufacturing and service firms. This study also constructed aninput-output table to measure both horizontal and vertical linkages. This study is …
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Strategies for climate change mitigation: policy and technological considerations
… methodologies for the identification of firm-level innovation in (GHG- reducing) electricity supply technologies. A key empirical contribution of this thesis, presented in the first chapter, is the construction and calculation of an average (emissions-weighted) price of carbon for the …
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Essays into Firms, Innovation and Productivity
This empirical research aims to understand firm-level innovation and productivity in the context of firm’s innovative activities or international activities such as offshoring and exporting. The PhD dissertation consists of three chapters that use the Survey of Business Activities annually provided …