This study examines the relative performance of small‐versus medium‐sized service firms with respect to innovation orientations and their effect on business performance. We …
AM Bobillo, JAR Sanz, FT Gaite - … International Business Review, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
Intangible assets and research and development (R&D) expenditure are essential instruments in a firm's competitive productivity and profitability strategy. The relationship …
Purpose This paper aims to study whether Peruvian manufacturing firms that implement innovation have positive performance and whether R&D activities moderate these …
PN Figueiredo - Asian Journal of Technology Innovation, 2007 - Taylor & Francis
Evidence of rates of capability accumulation in developing countries is crucial to further our understanding of timing of the process by which firms and industries move from production …
Using micro data from Brazilian manufacturing firms, this paper investigates the impact of a wide set of innovation activities on firms' total factor productivity (TFP) and its subsequent …
PN Figueiredo - Technological forecasting and social change, 2010 - Elsevier
Most of the studies that describe the building of innovation capability in emerging and developing economies have focused on the ways in which latecomer firms develop …
JA Leonard, C Waldman - Business Economics, 2007 - Springer
This paper estimates a simple model of innovation in the US manufacturing sector and derives summary indicators of product and process innovation. Our empirical work reveals …
S Cahill, T Rich, B Cozzarin - International food and agribusiness …, 2015 - researchgate.net
The objective of this paper was to examine the link between innovation and profit in the Canadian food processing industry and other Canadian manufacturing industries using firm …