The Current State of the Debate privatization of infrastructure in many developing countries has spawned new critiques of Mary Shirley privatization. How do theory Patrick Walsh and empirical evidence answer the much-debated questions, Which is more important to performance, competition or private ownership? Are state enterprises more subject to welfare-reducing interventions by government than...

Open innovation is increasingly popular among practitioners and scholars, but its implications for public policy making have not yet been analysed in detail. This paper explores a theoretical framework to structure the debate about public policy making that facilitates open innovation. We first define open innovation in terms of firms’ open innovation practices and external conditions that enco...

Our society is changing the way of making business; it is changing the competitiveness rules among the organizations and it is demanding a bigger involvement of the companies in the ethical aspects of businesses. Thus, the concept of Corporate Social Responsibility has become important as an approaching strategy between firms and society. For this reason, this paper attempts to analyze the effe...

Based on a random sample of 500 South Yorkshire non-hi-tech manufacturing small, medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) the quantitative findings support the hypothesis that size, strategic, and market orientation associate with innovation. The results show that prospectors are medium-sized companies and small companies, defenders. Prospectors are more innovative and market-oriented than defenders. Th...

In the severer market competition, the learning character of enterprises tends to be the most important resource of enterprises winning and maintaining market competence. By analyzing problems in talent cultivation based on learning enterprises at present in China, this thesis advances that enterprises can make efforts from these aspects: updating thoughts and opinions, improving enterprise qua...

Due to different economic systems, historical traditions, market environment, legal concepts and other conditions, the patterns of biopharmaceutical enterprises corporate governance varies. This paper aims to prompt developed countries to draw on their strengths to encourage developing countries towards the introduction of governance and management practices in biopharmaceutical enterprises bet...

Higher Productivity in Importing German Manufacturing Firms: Self-Selection, Learning from Importing, or Both? This paper uses a newly available comprehensive panel data set for manufacturing enterprises from 2001 to 2005 to document the first empirical results on the relationship between imports and productivity for Germany, a leading actor on the world market for goods. Furthermore, for the f...

The mass transfer of enterprises from state to private hands in Russia is one of the most remarkable events of the past decade, yet little is known about how privatization has affected workers. This paper explores the effect of changing ownership on the wage distribution, focusing on how wage differentials between state-owned and privatized enterprises have evolved over the course of the transi...

This paper studies the impact of the R&D offshoring of multinational enterprises on the firms in host emerging economies. We develop a two-stage non-cooperative game to analyze the strategic interaction between multinational and host country enterprises engaged in R&D investment. An empirical analysis of 12,309 manufacturing firms in the ICT industry in China shows that R&D offshoring has a pos...

Among the possible measures for Information Technology (IT) success is its impact on companies ́ performance. Many researches have been conducted to show the influence of IT on firms ́ results, but mainly through studies in large-sized firms. The objective of this work is to analyze the relationships between IT investments and organizational efficiency, focusing on micro, small and medium sized e...