The model proposes three prototype patterns of firm growth, depending on both firm- and industry-specific characteristics.
Using a sample from an original survey conducted in 2008, we examine the effects of founder-, firm-, and industry-specific characteristics on R&D cooperation by type of partners.
This paper shows that firm heterogeneity in technological competence, rather than differences in industry-specific characteristics, is the primary condition determining the long-debated relationship between firm size and R&D.
This knowledge assists in appreciating industry-specific characteristics of processes in general and their realization in a business entity in particular.
This framework forms the foundation for analyzing contextual criteria, identifying when the different conceptual designs are applied, determining industry-specific characteristics, and illustrating ways to further advance OC retailing.
Mestrallet stresses that Suez' industrial clients have vastly differing water needs-ultrapure for microelectronics, calcium-free for the petroleum industry, with specific characteristics for the paper, agriculture and other industries.
This paper introduces a new approach to the study of the socioeconomic impact of renewable technologies through the analysis of the reinforcing effects of the expansion of this industry and the specific characteristics of the employment along the value chain.
These authors considered bank specific characteristics, industry specific factors and macroeconomic variables as the main determinants of bank profitability.
The specific characteristics of scientific knowledge characterize the R&D cooperation between universities and industry.
Each race has specific characteristics, weapons and technology.
The other genes elaborate the specific characteristics of particular organisms.
