Innovation decision of Tunisian service firms: an empirical analysis

Hanen Sdiri () and Mohamed Ayadi ()

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Abstract: Innovation is widely recognised as a key driver of economic growth and competitiveness. But, some works focus especially on analyzing the determinants and the effects of innovation while distinguishing between its various types (product innovation, process innovation, radical innovation and incremental innovation). The analysis of the determinants is certainly important, but few research efforts testing the way in which firms make the decision to innovate. Based on a sample of 108 Tunisian service firms, the purpose of the paper is to explain the way in which firms make the decision to innovate: simultaneous (one-stage model) or sequential (two-stage model). We find that the two-stage model has a statistically-significant advantage in predicting the innovation. In practice, the sequential model illustrates well the innovation making-decision procedures.

Keywords: Innovation; Decision making; Service sector. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: L80 O31 O32 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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