Inovação e o desempenho empresariallucro ou crescimento?

Resumo

Innovation is considered to be a fundamental factor when it comes to company performance. However, empirical evidence does not consistently support this relationship at the company level. In this work, secondary data, which was taken from the IBGE's Pintec database and which follows the OECD's definition of innovation, was used. This measure considers a broad spectrum of aspects of the innovation process. A sample of companies operating in the Brazilian chemical sector was analyzed using the multiple linear regression technique. The results showed that there was no significant relationship between innovation indicators and profitability measures. On the other hand a positive and statistically significant relationship was found with growth in net revenues. The conclusion is that the innovation effort tends to affect growth more than it affects profitability. The discoveries both corroborate previous studies and contradict others.

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Tipo

Artigo científico

Ano

2009

Instituição

Fundação Getulio Vargas/Escola de Administração de Empresas de São Paulo

Fonte

Repositório da FGV

Idioma

Português

Acesso

Acesso aberto

DOI

10.1590/S1676-56482009000100007

Identificador

oai:repositorio.fgv.br:10438/21498

Temas

TecnologiaDados

Palavras-chave

InnovationCorporate performanceGrowthProfitabilityPintecInovaçãoDesempenho empresarialCrescimentoLucratividadeAdministração de empresasAdministração de empresas - Inovações tecnológicasEmpresas - CrescimentoLucros