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on Economics of Strategic Management |
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Issue of 2024‒01‒08
fifteen papers chosen by João José de Matos Ferreira, Universidade da Beira Interior |
| By: | Samovoleva, Svetlana |
| Abstract: | Improving of knowledge transfer is a key part of documents that determine the vector of development of science, technology and innovation, both in Russia and abroad. However, even with the accumulated considerable experience in the organization of knowledge transfer processes, the problem of low activity of domestic business in these processes remains unresolved. One of the main reasons is the lack of proper attention both in domestic science and policy to the absorption capacities of enterprises and knowledge absorption. The aim of this study is to identify the bottlenecks that hinder promoting knowledge absorption in Russia. For this purpose, firstly, the theoretical foundations for analyzing knowledge absorption are investigated. Secondly, the conceptual documents that define the current framework for regulating knowledge transfer in Russia are examined. Unlike the papers that aim to analyze the general advantages or disadvantages of innovation policy, this study focuses on finding bottlenecks in the regulation of knowledge absorption. The results of the paper can be useful to fine-tune the policy measures. |
| Keywords: | absorptive capacity, science and technology policy, national innovation system, regions, technological development, knowledge transfer |
| JEL: | O10 O25 O32 O33 O43 |
| Date: | 2023–09–25 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:pra:mprapa:119311&r=cse |
| By: | ESPARZA MASANA Ricard; WOOLFORD Jayne (European Commission - JRC) |
| Abstract: | Higher education institutions (HEIs) are increasingly expected to contribute to regional development and transformative innovation and heralded as actors of change in the context of the twin transitions and European recovery and resilience. Knowledge Alliances and European University alliances are two funding initiatives for HEIs that enable the translation of this broad strategic agenda into an individual and local context and the negotiation of the global (excellence) – local (relevance) dichotomy and potential alignment of their missions. The potential for HEIs to contribute to and participate in regional innovation ecosystems and European and global education, research and innovation agendas is under-exploited. This report explores the role of these two initiatives in strengthening this interaction. |
| Date: | 2023–11 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ipt:iptwpa:jrc135388&r=cse |
| By: | Andrés Mauricio Gómez-Sánchez (Facultad de Ciencias Contables, Económicas y Administrativas, Universidad del Cauca, Colombia); Juan A. Máñez-Castillejo (Department of Applied Economics II, Universidad de Valencia and ERICES, Spain); Juan A. Juan A. Sanchis-Llopis (Department of Applied Economics II, Universidad de Valencia and ERICES, Spain) |
| Abstract: | This paper investigates the impact of two innovating strategies (product and process) on total factor productivity (TFP) growth and the dynamic linkages between these strategies, for Colombia. In a first stage, we explore through panel data discrete choice models whether the ex-ante more productive firms are those that introduce innovations. In a second stage, we test whether the introduction of innovations boosts productivity growth. In this second stage, we use matching techniques. In a final stage, we explore the firm’s joint decision to innovate in process and/or product through a bivariate probit model. Data from the Annual Manufacturing Survey and the Technological Development and Innovation Survey, for 2007-2016, are used for Colombian manufacturing firms. Our results suggest that the most productive firms self- select into the introduction of innovations (both process and product). Further, these innovations render positive returns in terms of productivity growth only one period forward regardless of the type of innovation. In addition, we also find a strong persistence of process and product innovation over time, and cross effects between these two strategies, as product innovations are boosted by process innovation and vice versa. |
| Keywords: | product innovation, process innovation, productivity, self-selection/returns into/from innovation |
| JEL: | O3 D24 L6 |
| Date: | 2023–12 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:eec:wpaper:2311&r=cse |
| By: | Ashish Arora; Sharon Belenzon; Larisa C. Cioaca; Lia Sheer; Hansen Zhang |
| Abstract: | We study the relationships between corporate R&D and three components of public science: knowledge, human capital, and invention. We identify the relationships through firm-specific exposure to changes in federal agency R\&D budgets that are driven by the political composition of congressional appropriations subcommittees. Our results indicate that R&D by established firms, which account for more than three-quarters of business R&D, is affected by scientific knowledge produced by universities only when the latter is embodied in inventions or PhD scientists. Human capital trained by universities fosters innovation in firms. However, inventions from universities and public research institutes substitute for corporate inventions and reduce the demand for internal research by corporations, perhaps reflecting downstream competition from startups that commercialize university inventions. Moreover, abstract knowledge advances per se elicit little or no response. Our findings question the belief that public science represents a non-rival public good that feeds into corporate R&D through knowledge spillovers. |
| JEL: | O3 |
| Date: | 2023–11 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:nbr:nberwo:31899&r=cse |
| By: | Chenglin Qing; Shanyue Jin |
| Abstract: | Recently, environmental, social, and governance (ESG) has become an important factor in companies' sustainable development. Artificial intelligence (AI) is also a core digital technology that can create innovative, sustainable, comprehensive, and resilient environments. ESG- and AI-based digital transformation is a relevant strategy for managing business value and sustainability in corporate green management operations. Therefore, this study examines how corporate sustainability relates to ESG- and AI-based digital transformation. Furthermore, it confirms the moderating effect of green innovation on the process of increasing sustainability. To achieve the purpose of this study, 359 data points collected for hypothesis testing were used for statistical analysis and for mobile business platform users. The following conclusions are drawn. (1) ESG activities have become key variables that enable sustainable corporate growth. Companies can implement eco-friendly operating processes through ESG activities. (2) This study verifies the relationship between AI-based digital transformation and corporate sustainability and confirms that digital transformation positively affects corporate sustainability. In addition, societal problems can be identified and environmental accidents prevented through technological innovation. (3) This study does not verify the positive moderating effect of green innovation; however, it emphasizes its necessity and importance. Although green innovation improves performance only in the long term, it is a key factor for companies pursuing sustainable growth. This study reveals that ESG- and AI-based digital transformation is an important tool for promoting corporate sustainability, broadening the literature in related fields and providing insights for corporate management and government policymakers to advance corporate sustainability. |
| Date: | 2023–11 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:arx:papers:2311.18351&r=cse |
| By: | Kyung Min Lee; Mee Jung Kim; J. David Brown; John S. Earle; Zhen Liu |
| Abstract: | We evaluate the contributions of immigrant entrepreneurs to innovation in the U.S. using linked survey-administrative data on 199, 000 firms with a rich set of innovation measures and other firm and owner characteristics. We find that not only are immigrants more likely than natives to own businesses, but on average their firms display more innovation activities and outcomes. Immigrant owned firms are particularly more likely to create completely new products, improve previous products, use new processes, and engage in both basic and applied R&D, and their efforts are reflected in substantially higher levels of patents and productivity. Immigrant owners are slightly less likely than natives to imitate products of others and to hire more employees. Delving into potential explanations of the immigrant-native differences, we study other characteristics of entrepreneurs, access to finance, choice of industry, immigrant self-selection, and effects of diversity. We find that the immigrant innovation advantage is robust to controlling for detailed characteristics of firms and owners, it holds in both high-tech and non-high-tech industries and, with the exception of productivity, it tends to be even stronger in firms owned by diverse immigrant-native teams and by diverse immigrants from different countries. The evidence from nearly all measures that immigrants tend to operate more innovative and productive firms, together with the higher share of business ownership by immigrants, implies large contributions to U.S. innovation and growth. |
| Date: | 2023–11 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:cen:wpaper:23-56&r=cse |
| By: | Marco Augliera (University of Trento); Gabriella Berloffa (University of Trento); Fabio Pieri (University of Trento) |
| Abstract: | This work investigates the relationship between the numerical flexibility of a firm’s workforce and its innovative performance, taking into account the heterogeneity of firms and labor contracts. Using longitudinal data on Italian firms, we find that the share of temporary employees has a positive and significant effect on innovation for small and micro firms in low-tech and less knowledge-intensive sectors and a negative effect for medium and large firms in high-tech and knowledge-intensive sectors. These results suggest that managers and entrepreneurs may use temporary employment as an effective human resource practice to foster innovation in those firms whose technology or knowledge do not require vast and firm- specific investments. They also highlight possible unintended consequences of changes in the employment protection legislation for firms’ innovative performance. Functional flexibility (training policies) and wage flexibility (second-level wage bargaining scheme) are neither substitutes nor complements to numerical flexibility, suggesting that firms use numerical, functional, and wage flexibility in different combinations. |
| Keywords: | Numerical flexibility; labor contracts; firm innovation; industrial relations |
| JEL: | D22 L23 M54 M55 J41 |
| Date: | 2022–12–12 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:csl:devewp:481&r=cse |
| By: | NAGAOKA Sadao; HONJO Yuji |
| Date: | 2023–11 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:eti:rpdpjp:23026&r=cse |
| By: | Catherine Laffineur (Université Côte d'Azur; GREDEG CNRS); Maria Minniti (Syracuse University, New-York); Benjamin Montmartin (SKEMA Business School) |
| Abstract: | Most individuals accumulate work experience before starting a venture. Does the knowledge gained from the worker’s occupation influential of the decision to become self-employed? Does it make a difference for the business? Data on the career history of individuals are used to identify whether being employed in an occupation requiring high managerial knowledge matter for the processes by which individuals move into and perform in all kinds of self-employment. We find that higher knowledge in management increases the likelihood to start a business and improves business performance. We also find that workers with higher knowledge in management perform better when they start an incorporated business. |
| Keywords: | Entrepreneurship, Self-Employment, Occupational Choice, Firm Performance |
| JEL: | J62 L25 L26 |
| Date: | 2023–12 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:gre:wpaper:2023-19&r=cse |
| By: | Ferran Pérez Pedrola (EESC-GEM Grenoble Ecole de Management); Claudio Vitari (CERGAM - Centre d'Études et de Recherche en Gestion d'Aix-Marseille - AMU - Aix Marseille Université - UTLN - Université de Toulon) |
| Abstract: | This paper explores the Information Systems project implementations in organizations. It focuses on the actualization of the affordances that result from the intertwining of the Information Technology (IT) artefact and the organization and we answer to the following research question "How do organizations actualize affordances?" With a qualitative multiple case study on the different local entities of an international leading retailer, this research identifies that previous research omitted the top management sponsorship as one of the main influences for the actualization process. Moreover, constrains perception is observed in the collected data and its role is assessed. This paper contributes the development of the affordance theory by providing an updated process-based integrative theoretical framework for affordances at the organizational level, aimed to support further research on Information Systems. |
| Keywords: | Multiple Case Study, Affordance Theory, Affordance Actualization, Affordance Effect, Multinational Corporation |
| Date: | 2023–08–10 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:hal:journl:hal-04299444&r=cse |
| By: | Alessandro Bratti (Autorità di bacino distrettuale del fiume Po (ADBPO) and University of Ferrara); Alberto Cavazzini (University of Ferrara, DOCPAS, Italy); Elisa Chioatto (University of Ferrara, DEM, Italy); Massimiliano Mazzanti (University of Ferrara, DEM, Italy); Fabiola Onofrio (University of Ferrara, DEM, Italy) |
| Keywords: | green chemistry, innovation, petrochemical industry |
| Date: | 2023–11 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:srt:wpaper:0323&r=cse |
| By: | Akimkina, Dariya |
| Abstract: | The article considers the approach to diversification using G. Itzkovitz's triple helix theory. The purpose of this research is to determine whether a triple-helix model modified for Russian conditions can be used to enhance technology transfer processes. Based on an analysis of the unique features of domestic institutions-subjects of innovation activity (the government, business, science, and education) and their relationships, it has been demonstrated how these elements contribute to the strategic task of transforming the national economy into a new technological mode, including transferring technologies from the military industry to civil industries |
| Keywords: | technological exchange, triple helix model, education, sanctions, diversification, intellectual capital, import substitution |
| JEL: | O15 O32 |
| Date: | 2023–06–01 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:pra:mprapa:119302&r=cse |
| By: | MCCOSHAN Andrew; MELSTVEIT ROSEME Maria; MOBILIO Luca; HERRERO Cesar (European Commission - JRC) |
| Abstract: | The report discusses the role of SELFIE WBL in connecting business and regional innovation with VET schools. It highlights the need for a self-reflection tool to improve these connections and fill the existing gap in the market. The report emphasizes the importance of understanding innovation, skills, and VET's role in supporting innovation. It suggests developing a normative model of VET's role in innovation to provide a basis for the tool's parameters. The report also addresses the need to bridge the gap between schools and companies, expand the potential user base, and balance top-down and bottom-up interests. Furthermore, it outlines an action plan indicating the next steps for further research, stakeholder mapping, and engagement, as well as developing a normative model and conducting experimental innovative projects. These steps would provide a solid foundation for the future development and implementation of SELFIE WBL for innovation in the VET sector. |
| Date: | 2023–11 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ipt:iptwpa:jrc134782&r=cse |
| By: | Giacomo Lo Conte; Andrea Mina; Silvia Rocchetta |
| Abstract: | In this paper we explore the impact of place-based innovation policy in Europe. We focus on the effects of Smart Specialisation strategies on the labour productivity of regional economies. We design an analytical framework that takes into account the entrepreneurial discovery process through which the policy is implemented, and connect the technological relatedness of regions with their specialisation choices. We use an IV estimation approach capable of handling endogeneity problems, and apply it to an extensive dataset of 102 NUTS2 regions extracted from the European Commission Smart Specialisation Portal. The results show that Smart Specialisation strategies increase labour productivity as long as the priorities are set in sectors related to pre-existing technological capabilities, indicating the fundamental importance of path-dependency in diversification choices. The findings deepen our understanding of regional development and innovation strategies, and have relevant implications for the implementation of appropriate policy instruments. |
| Keywords: | Related diversification; Specialization; Regional policy; Innovation policy; Place-based Policies |
| JEL: | O33 R11 |
| Date: | 2023–12 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:egu:wpaper:2323&r=cse |
| By: | Rohmani, Cholil |
| Abstract: | This comprehensive review explores the intricate interplay between marketing strategies, smart city development, and information systems in contemporary urban contexts. The study addresses the evolving landscape of urbanization, where traditional marketing approaches integrate with cutting-edge technologies within smart city initiatives. The primary aim is to provide a comprehensive understanding of the relationships among these three dimensions and their impact on sustainable urban development. A systematic literature review methodology is employed, encompassing databases such as PubMed, IEEE Xplore, ScienceDirect, and JSTOR. The results highlight the dynamic evolution of marketing strategies within smart cities, the role of information systems as catalysts for innovation, and the challenges and opportunities associated with this interplay. The review contributes novel insights by identifying gaps in current knowledge, emphasizing the importance of stakeholder collaboration, ethical considerations, and the need for inclusive and culturally sensitive marketing strategies in the realm of smart city development. |
| Date: | 2023–12–06 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:osf:osfxxx:8enru&r=cse |