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Firm size and innovation in European manufacturing
No full textThe paper investigates the differences between small, medium-sized and large firms regarding their performance in the introduction of new products and processes. After a review of the relevant literature, two models are proposed and tested in search for different business strategies and innovation inputs connected to product and process innovations. The empirical analysis uses innovation survey (CIS 2) data at the industry level for 22 manufacturing sectors, broken down in three firm size classes, for eight European countries. Special attention is devoted to tackling the issues of possible endogeneity of the regressors and of unobserved sectoral heterogeneity. The results - strengthening the findings of previous studies - show that product and process innovations, though having some complementarities, are associated to different innovative inputs and strategies pursued by firms. Systematic differences also emerge between the behaviour of large firms and SMEs
The global justice movements: the transnational dimension
No full textThis chapter first provides a brief history of global justice movements since the 1970s, mainly based on the sequence of major events that have marked their slow emergence and high visibility on the global scene of the new century. Second, data on global civil society events are provided in order to examine the transnational repertoire of actions of the GJMs. Third, a profile of GJMs is proposed through the identification of their organizational structure and characteristics. Finally, a discussion of their identities, visions, and strategies leads to our conclusions on the transnational dimension of global justice movements
Global social movement networks and the politics of change
No full textThe emerging structures of global social movements and their impact
on policy change are examined in Chapter 4, ‘Global Social Movement
Networks and the Politics of Change’, by Raff aele Marchetti and Mario
Pianta. The authors identify three key novelties of such networks. First,
they organizationally constitute the backbone of a new political agency
that it is openly global , thus di ff erent from traditional contentious agency at
the national level; second, they show a degree of political maturation in the framing of issues from local and national protest to global proposals; and,
fi nally, they develop a specifi c strategic-political skill in both challenging
and implementing institutional policy-making at the state and international
levels. Organizational structure, themes and strategy constitute the three
elements characterizing the unique nature of transnational social networks
as key elements for understanding global politics in general, and global
contentious politics in particular. The chapter concludes with examples of
how these global social movements have concretely aff ected transnational
and national policies, illustrating the ‘global activism–policy nexus’ and its
manifestations at diff erent levels of governanc
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