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Innovation and the performance of Portuguese businesses: a 'SURE' approach

Author(s) -

Carla Susana Marques,

Chris Gerry,

Susana Covelo,

Alexandra Braga,

Vítor Braga

Publication year - 2011

Publication title -

international journal of management and enterprise development

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.19

H-Index - 25

eISSN - 1741-8127

pISSN - 1468-4330

DOI - 10.1504/ijmed.2011.041545

Subject(s) - portuguese , business , industrial organization , competitive advantage , process (computing) , innovation process , marketing , knowledge management , computer science , work in process , philosophy , linguistics , operating system

There is a general consensus that in a competitive business environment, firms’ performance will depend on their capacity to innovate. To clarifying how, when and to what extent innovation affects the market and financial performance of firms, the authors deploy seemingly unrelated regression equation model to examine innovation in over 500 Portuguese firms from 1998 to 2004. The results confirm, as theorists have frequently assumed, that innovation positively affects firms’ performance; but they also suggest that the reverse is true, a result that is less intuitively obvious, given the complexity of the innovation process and local, national and global competitive environments

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