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... explain firms’ differences in innovation activities and in the returns on R&D expenditures 3 ...that large firms are more innovative than the small and medium sized ...firms. ... See full document

... small firms’, on average, investment capital is 13 % lower than the large firms that are financed by the ...old firms have less financial obstacles than smaller or younger ...small ... See full document

... is more chance of obsolete items being eliminated and where necessary, a replenishment order is ...load more evenly, larger quantity discounts are obtained when a range of stock items is ordered at the same ... See full document

... The model produces several interesting results. First, Theorem 2 shows that the limiting output level is a ran- dom variable rather than a constant, as is found in the non-stochastic version of the dynamic Cournot model. ... See full document

... much more pronounced in high income countries. Specifically, firms that innovate tend to export ...times more [exp(1.029)-1] than firms that do not innovative when they target high ... See full document

... them. Large firms are able to cover these requirements with their internal resources, but SMEs and starts tend to rely on open innovations to alleviate resource constraints ...be more creative than ... See full document

... parties. Innovative collaboration is defined as the participation in joint R&D and other technological innovation projects with external parties such as suppliers, competitors, customers, and universities ... See full document

... the innovative project there are also two forms of easy-term public financing that are taking on increasing importance, above all for the small-size ...that firms having access to this finance channel show ... See full document

... centives to renegotiate her original financing contract in order to prevent such disclosure. We characterise the resulting optimal contract between investor and entrepreneur as well its implications for entrepreneurial ... See full document

... views firms as het- ...between firms is habitually explained with respect to technological sector and ...that firms belonging to a higher techno- logical sector are more productive due to ... See full document

... Efficiency gains are often claimed for mergers, but OFT guidance warns that prospective efficiency gains are more easily claimed than achieved. Any potential efficiency gain must be shown to be merger-specific, ... See full document

... Bahrain firms are moving rapidly into high technology products and ...Bahrain firms are organized by the Ministry of Commerce and Industry Guidelines which encourage investment in ...Bahrain firms ... See full document

... In order to measure innovation behavior, the scale of Mom et al. (2009) is used. This scale consist of seven items to measure the exploration orientation and seven items to measure the exploitation orientation of ... See full document

... In a further estimate we retain all these just added controls and also add indicators of human resource management practices including whether or not the establishment conducts personality/attitude and ... See full document

... high innovative capability will be more successful to develop new capabilities that will cause response to environment, competitive advantage and high performance (Hurley and Hult, ...with innovative ... See full document

... international firms may be treated as a form of inter-organizational ...into more flexible organizational forms, which could accommodate novelty and innovation ... See full document

... Large firms, more often than not international corporations, providing contingent labor in many countries of the world, favor a strict regulation of employment agencies and conditions of[r] ... See full document

... that firms entering into the export sector in many of developing countries have been increasing over time (Shafaeddin, ...new firms entering into the export ...entering firms been surviving in the ... See full document

... In this framework, we show that even though public production is always inefficient, democratic institutions are able to restrain inefficiencies due to electoral control.2 Even though th[r] ... See full document

... It is in (arguably the most important) the area of executive, and particularly PDG autonomy, that least change has been seen. The post itself has not been split into two as Anglo-Saxon best practice recommends. Indeed, ... See full document