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on Economics of Strategic Management |
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Issue of 2025–03–03
nine papers chosen by João José de Matos Ferreira, Universidade da Beira Interior |
| By: | Salomé Baslandze; Leo Liu; Elvira Sojli; Wing Wah Tham |
| Abstract: | This paper studies the interaction between process and product innovations and their distinct role in firm growth dynamics. We differentiate empirically and theoretically two types of process innovations: foundational processes that advance production technology and cost-reducing processes that enhance existing production efficiency. We develop an innovation model of product varieties with quality heterogeneity to illustrate how these innovations affect firm growth differently and highlight how process innovation induces product innovation. By analyzing millions of patent texts from 1900 to 2020, we classify innovations into product, cost-reducing process, and foundational process innovations. We find that foundational processes lead to sustained firm growth, especially through their effect on subsequent product creation. R&D-intensive firms focused on “deep-tech” innovations have an advantage in creating foundational processes, resulting in superior product quality. Using patents linked to FDA-approved drugs, we show that firms with a comparative advantage in creating foundational processes, due to greater knowledge and technological stock, tend to produce higher-value products. |
| Keywords: | foundational process innovation; process innovation; product innovation; process-driven products; firm growth; technological possibility frontier |
| JEL: | O3 O4 |
| Date: | 2025–02–19 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:fip:fedawp:99586 |
| By: | Paulo Bastos; Katherine Stapleton; Daria Taglioni; Wei, Hannah Yi |
| Abstract: | This study examines the role of multinational firms and global value chain linkages in the cross-country diffusion of emerging technologies. The analysis combines detailed information on the near-universe of online job postings in 17 countries with data on multinational networks and firm-to-firm linkages from 2014 to 2022. Online job postings are utilized to investigate how jobs related to emerging technologies spread through firm networks. The findings show that emerging technology jobs are highly concentrated within multinational firms and their supply chains. Approximately one third of all emerging technology job postings during this period come from Fortune 500 firms, their affiliates, buyers, suppliers, or innovation partners. Although the locations where these technologies originate exhibit a higher prevalence of technology job openings, this advantage diminishes over time as diffusion accelerates in wealthier and geographically closer countries and regions. The study highlights the significant role of firm-to-firm linkages in technology diffusion, with some linkages proving more influential than others. Firms that were previously buyers or innovation partners of establishments in technology-originating locations experienced faster growth in jobs related to these technologies. Moreover, relationships outside corporate boundaries play a particularly critical role, and these connections are influential beyond the factor of geographical distance. |
| Date: | 2024–09–11 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:wbk:wbrwps:10905 |
| By: | Antonin Bergeaud (CEPR - Center for Economic Policy Research, Centre de recherche de la Banque de France - Banque de France); Arthur Guillouzouic (PSE - Paris School of Economics - UP1 - Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne - ENS-PSL - École normale supérieure - Paris - PSL - Université Paris Sciences et Lettres - EHESS - École des hautes études en sciences sociales - ENPC - École nationale des ponts et chaussées - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - INRAE - Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement, IPP - Institut des politiques publiques, Sciences Po - Sciences Po) |
| Abstract: | Following Bergeaud et al. (2022), we construct a new measure of proximity between industrial sectors and public research laboratories. Using this measure, we explore the underlying network of knowledge linkages between scientific fields and industrial sectors in France. We show empirically that there exists a significant negative correlation between the geographical distance between firms and laboratories and their scientific proximity, suggesting strongly localized spillovers. Moreover, we uncover some important differences by field, stronger than when using standard patent-based measures of proximity. |
| Keywords: | Knowledge Spillovers, Technological Distance, Public Laboratories |
| Date: | 2024–03 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:hal:ipppap:hal-04938250 |
| By: | Antonin Bergeaud (CEPR - Center for Economic Policy Research, Centre de recherche de la Banque de France - Banque de France); Arthur Guillouzouic (PSE - Paris School of Economics - UP1 - Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne - ENS-PSL - École normale supérieure - Paris - PSL - Université Paris Sciences et Lettres - EHESS - École des hautes études en sciences sociales - ENPC - École nationale des ponts et chaussées - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - INRAE - Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement, IPP - Institut des politiques publiques, Sciences Po - Sciences Po) |
| Abstract: | Following Bergeaud et al. (2022), we construct a new measure of proximity between industrial sectors and public research laboratories. Using this measure, we explore the underlying network of knowledge linkages between scientific fields and industrial sectors in France. We show empirically that there exists a significant negative correlation between the geographical distance between firms and laboratories and their scientific proximity, suggesting strongly localized spillovers. Moreover, we uncover some important differences by field, stronger than when using standard patent-based measures of proximity. |
| Keywords: | Knowledge Spillovers, Technological Distance, Public Laboratories |
| Date: | 2024–03 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:hal:pseptp:hal-04938250 |
| By: | Meziane Amina (UMBB - Université M'Hamed Bougara Boumerdes) |
| Abstract: | The aim of this study is to identify the presence of entrepreneurial intention among Algerian researchers for creating academic spin-offs. We relied on a questionnaire administered to 88 researchers from the University of Boumerdes. The findings led to the conclusion that researchers show limited interest in starting a business. Furthermore, desirability and feasibility are the primary factors influencing this inclination. To facilitate the establishment of such enterprises, a comprehensive framework enveloping legislative, cultural, and financing elements is essential to improve the capacity of universities in forming spin-off companies. |
| Keywords: | entrepreneurial intention researchers universities business creation (Spin-Off) scientific research commercialization (valorization). JEL Classification Codes: M13 O3, entrepreneurial intention, researchers, universities, business creation (Spin-Off), scientific research, commercialization (valorization). JEL Classification Codes: M13, O3 |
| Date: | 2023–12–30 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:hal:journl:halshs-04521401 |
| By: | Sarra Wakrim (UMI - جامعة مولاي إسماعيل = Université Moulay Ismaïl); Siham Khaldi (UMI - جامعة مولاي إسماعيل = Université Moulay Ismaïl) |
| Abstract: | As the business environment grows increasingly disrupted, building resilience has become an imperative for organizational survival and competitiveness. This paper explores the critical nexus between dynamic capabilities theory and strategic human resource management (SHRM) in enabling organizational resilience. Through a comprehensive literature review, we examine the conceptual intersections between dynamic capabilities, strategic HRM, and resilience. We propose a theoretical framework that delineates how targeted SHRM practices can develop dynamic capabilities by continuously sensing opportunities and threats, seizing market options, and reconfiguring resources and competencies. Our model provides an integrated perspective on how targeted SHRM practices can develop the dynamic capabilities needed to foster resilience in turbulent business environments. Testing this model empirically can provide evidencebased insights for practice on configuring SHRM to build resilience. |
| Keywords: | Business disruption, Organizational resilience, Strategic Human Resource Management, HRM practices, Dynamic Capabilities |
| Date: | 2023–11–27 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:hal:journl:halshs-04630961 |
| By: | Lahouari Said (UMBB - Université M'Hamed Bougara Boumerdes) |
| Abstract: | This study investigates the impact of entrepreneurship education on students' entrepreneurial intentions. Data collected via a structured questionnaire from students at University assess the relationship between entrepreneurship educations, entrepreneurial self-efficacy and entrepreneurial intentions. We used the Methodology Structural Modeling Partial Least Squares Equations (SEM-PLS) using Smart PLS (version 4). Findings confirm the direct and indirect positive relationship between entrepreneurship education (EE) and entrepreneurial intention. |
| Keywords: | Entrepreneurship education Entrepreneurial intention Self-efcacy University students entrepreneurial pedagogy JEL Classification Codes : L26, C31, I23, Entrepreneurship education, Entrepreneurial intention, Self-efcacy, University students, entrepreneurial pedagogy JEL Classification Codes : L26 |
| Date: | 2023–12–30 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:hal:journl:halshs-04521381 |
| By: | Benjamin Cornejo Costas; Nicola Cortinovis; Andrea Morrison; |
| Abstract: | This paper investigates the relationship between migrant inventors, informal institutions and the development of green technologies in European regions. We argue that migrant inventors act as an unlocking mechanism that transfers external knowledge to host regions, and that informal institutions (i.e. social capital, migrant acceptance) mediate this effect. The work is based on an original dataset of migrant inventors covering 271 NUTS2 regions in the 27 EU countries, the UK, Switzerland, and Norway. The analysis shows that migrant inventors help their host regions to diversify into green technologies. The regions with the highest levels of both measures of social capital show a higher propensity of migrant inventors to act knowledge brokers. Conversely, regions with lower levels of migrant acceptance and social capital do not seem to contribute to this effect. |
| Keywords: | lock-in, international migration, green innovation, social capital, acceptance, regional diversification, EU regions |
| JEL: | F22 J61 O30 R12 Q55 |
| Date: | 2025–02 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:egu:wpaper:2503 |
| By: | Carolina Castaldi |
| Abstract: | Mapping innovation in space is part and parcel of research on the geography of innovation. The maps we produce reflect both how we conceptualize innovation and the data and indicators we choose to measure it. They can shape research directions and policy strategies. As research on the geography of innovation expands, this paper asks the question: How do innovation maps reflect these evolving perspectives? |
| Date: | 2025–02 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:egu:wpaper:2505 |