Innovation Capacity: A Firm Level Response to Subsidy Activity in a National Setting

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the effect subsidies have on firm-level innovation across Eastern European and Central Asian countries and to assess if these effects move to increase firm-level capability. Specifically, we investigate the extent subsidy programs act to shape and guide firm-level innovative capabilities and how the presence of such capabilities affect operational performance. We employ a Probit model to investigate firm-level innovation and OLS regression to assess how subsidies, in association with the decision to adopt foreign technology and in-house research and development (R&D) affect firm productive capacity. Results suggest subsidies promote innovation and that when these subsidies are contemporaneously considered in the face of the decision to adopt foreign technologies and employ in-house R&D, firm-level capacity increases

Environmental Sustainability: A Three Part Essay of The Value Relevance of Cost Management

The purpose of this three-part study is to analyze the concept of sustainability and its pillars at the county level from a cost management prospective. The first chapter, examine the relationship between resource allocation and environmental management, where I attempt to empirically demonstrate that reallocating resources toward social goods without increasing total spending could in fact improve environmental performance by the county. The second chapter, eco-efficiency and its outcome are examined at the county level as an approach to measuring the competitiveness of fiscal policy (input) in improving environmental performance (output) and its impact on the overall financial condition of the county (outcome). The third chapter, assess the extent to which economic development at the county level benefit from the presence of pro-active environmental efforts such as recycling programs. In this three-part study, I employ a sample of 66 Florida counties from 2005 to 2014