INNOVATION IN AN ERA OF UNCERTAINTY

... quality and the quantity of innovation in an organization depend on both its internal and external environment Innovations within an organization diffuse into the external environment and changes in. .. factors affecting innovation: information and communication, behavior and integration, knowle[r]

the post-war period merit special focus in this respect. On the one hand, the extremenegative rates of protection found in many traditional sectors during the ISI period were aclear disincentive to innovation. But the excessive protection in the manufacturingsectors may have the same e[r]

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to communities, technical assistance and training, andimproved infrastructure (energy sources and telecoms).Innovators need to be insulated against bureaucratic regulations, monopolistic predators, and corporatist behaviors.Innovation policy requires a strong legal framework, and constant vig[r]

... techniques (Ansari and Mondarres, 1988; Manoochehri, 1984; Freeland, 1991; McDaniel et al., 1992; Schonberger and Gilbert, 1983), JIT implementation (Ansari and Mondarres, 1986; Ansari and Mondarres,... are i) Quantity-Based Consolidation and ii) TimeBased Consolidation Quantity-Based policies,[r]

... the reduction of cost of equity Nevertheless, I find evidence that the relation between income smoothing and cost of equity also depends heavily on specific measures of cost of equity, particularly... study of Francis, LaFond, Olsson and Schipper (2004) and examine the effect of income smoothing[r]

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... characteristics and performance of the Chinese IPO market would be of great value for investors and scholars at home and abroad The large underpricing magnitude in the Chinese IPO market has also... of ex ante uncertainty Chowdry and Sherman (1996) demonstrate that an increasing lag between the[r]

This paper uses firm level data from a crosssection of
57 countries to study how financial development affects
innovation in small firms. The analysis finds that relative
to large firms in the same industry, spending on research
and development by small firms is more likely and sizable
in countries[r]