Brian P Cozzarin

• BA, MSc, PhD
• Professor at University of Waterloo

Mobile banking (m-banking) is the use of a mobile device such as a smartphone to do banking tasks. We investigate the direct and moderated effect of mental health on m-banking adoption. Moderators in our study are extracted from theories in technology adoption paradigm or from literature related to mental health. These variables are relationship sa...

Using Canadian-invented patents granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office during the period between 1995 and 2014, we investigate how ownership of Canadian inventions varies across time and by technology, geographic region, quality of invention, and the presence of superstar firms. Our findings show that the gap between Canadian-inve...

Our objective is to study Canada’s patenting activity over time in aggregate terms by destination country, by assignee and destination country, and by diversification by country of destination. We collect bibliographic patent data from the Canadian Intellectual Property Office and the United States Patent and Trademark Office. We identify 19,957 ma...

We survey 398 Chinese entrepreneurs within 118 entrepreneurial teams to investigate external social capital's impact on: the decision to start a venture and the mediating role that risk perception plays in that decision. Our results confirm that external social capital has a significant and positive effect on the decision to start a venture, while...

We test the Cohen & Klepper cost-spreading process share hypotheses using unique data from two national innovation surveys (2009 and 2012). To our knowledge, no other study has the same combination as our dataset, in terms of robust data from a mandatory survey, large sample size, diverse measures for innovation output, and no sample selection bias...

We explore whether intellectual capital is a precursor to Small and Medium Enterprise (SME) growth. We use data from Inc. 5000 of fast-growing SMEs in the USA and match companies to patent applications. We use a zero-inflated negative binomial model corrected for endogeneity to account for many SMEs without intellectual capital. We find the margina...

Ambiguity is central to entrepreneurship phenomena. This paper addresses how ambiguity affects decision making in general, and in entrepreneurship specifically. The work described in this paper relies on robust empirical findings from behavioral economics to construct a conceptual model of factors that influence ambiguity attitudes. The conceptual...

Evidence shows that training can increase product innovation. Yet in most studies survey design omits the differentiation between ‘new' and ‘improved' technical innovation. Thus, our objective is to quantify the impact of training on product and process innovation, especially in terms of new versus improved innovations. We use a national, establish...

This study investigates whether organisational innovation has positive impacts on small and medium enterprises, using three waves of the South Korean innovation survey. While correcting for endogeneity, we find that the probability of achieving a process or product innovation conditional on organisational innovation increases in a linear fashion fr...

We use data on venture capital investments from 26 countries from 1998–2013. We investigate the following questions: Do domestic government sponsored venture capital funds augment or curtail domestic private venture capital funds from cross-border investment? Do government sponsored venture capital funds attract or repel foreign private venture cap...

Do government venture capital funds crowd-in or crowd-out international private venture capital investment? The crowding-in effect arises when international private venture capital benefits from government subsidies through the enhancement of an entrepreneurial ecosystem and investment syndication. The crowding-out effect arises when government ven...

We find a divergence in the literature regarding the treatment of how organizational innovation affects innovation and performance. One point of view suggests that organizational innovation impacts performance only, while the other suggests that it impacts technical innovation and firm performance. We use the framework of Crepon-Duguet-Mairesse (CDM)...

This study examines the role of perceived risk and access device type on consumers’ on-line purchase decisions. We use a two-step hurdle approach to estimate consumer behavior. In the first step, the decision of whether to engage in eCommerce is estimated and in the second step, how many orders to place is estimated. We use a large multi-year surve...

The purpose of this paper was to test the effect of organizational innovation on product and process innovation (while controlling for endogeneity). Our hypothesis was that organizational innovation should have a significant and positive impact on technical (product or process) innovation. We control for endogeneity by using a Poisson estimator tha...

In this article, we used a two-step estimation procedure, where in the first stage, the number of advanced manufacturing technologies used in the firm was estimated using a negative binomial regression, and the expenditure on process and product innovation was estimated using a type II Tobit procedure. In the second stage, we used the predicted val...

This study examines the role of crime consciousness and access device type on consumers’ online purchase decisions. We use a two-step hurdle approach to estimate consumer behavior. In the first step, the decision of whether to engage in ecommerce is estimated and in the second step, how many orders to place is estimated. We use a large multi-year s...

In this work we test if Internet access device impacts the online purchase probability of a consumer. We also test if the online purchase probability of consumers increases over time. Our data is from the Canadian Internet Use Survey over four years, consisting of at least 23,178 participants per year, relative to previous studies this is a very la...

The objective of this paper was to examine the link between innovation and profit in the Canadian food processing industry and other Canadian manufacturing industries using firm-level data. We conduct non-parametric tests using a panel of 723 manufacturing firms over eight years (N=5,784). The main finding is that profitability is higher for food p...

Few studies have examined the relationship between inter-industry, inter-corporate ownership (ICO) patterns and inter-industry resource exchange patterns. Using data from Statistics Canada, this paper reveals a positive association between the degree of ICO linkages and the degree of input–output dependence among Canadian industry groups. This prov...

The Canadian F-35 procurement represents the largest peace-time acquisition of new aircraft for Canadian forces since the Korean War. Securing industrial benefits from military procure-ment is essential for advanced industrialized nations, and it has long been Canadian industrial policy to do so. For the CF-18 program, "off-set" contracts were nego...

Recent studies have examined the impact of human resource management (HRM) practices on workplace performance. Most find that the adoption of a coherent system of new HRM practices such as flexible job definitions, cross-training and work teams, along with extensive reliance on incentive pay, results in substantially higher levels of productivity t...

One of the central problems in managing technological change and maintaining a competitive advantage in business is improving the skills of the workforce through investment in human capital and a variety of training practices. This paper explores the evidence on the impact of training investment on productivity in 14 Canadian industries from 1999 t...

This study examines the factors that affect a consumer's decision about online purchases, especially their concern regarding fraud and the characteristics of goods. Using a two-step hurdle estimation approach with consumer adoption and intensity decisions, this study shows that fraud concerns significantly influence the online buying decision of co...

This paper examines the factors that affect market dominance in a standards competition by comparing the VHS-Beta war in the 1980s to the Blu-ray-HD-DVD war in the 2000s. We first look at the changing home video market from a technological development standpoint. Then we move on to discuss three main strategies in a standards war: first-mover advan...

The purpose of this analysis is to use complementarity analysis to explain why some implementations of advanced manufacturing technology (AMT) provide a high return on investment while others do not. By analysing the engineering environment, as well as the technology used in the manufacturing process, we hope to provide further insight into the nec...

Our paper uses a large longitudinal survey of establishments to address two questions: Has IT implementation significantly contributed to workplace performance? Do IT implementations have a positive or negative effect on high performance human resource/workplace practices, compensation practices and training? We put forth four main hypotheses and f...

Purpose ‐ The purpose of this paper is to test for complementarities between 26 advanced manufacturing technologies (AMT) in Canadian manufacturing plants. Design/methodology/approach ‐ Constrained regression analysis with labor productivity and profitability as dependent variables for 11 industries and three size classes are used. Supermodularity...

Students spend much of their life in an attempt to assess their aptitude for numerous tasks. For example, they expend a great Students spend much of their life in an attempt to assess their aptitude for numerous tasks. For example, they expend a great deal of effort to determine their academic standing given a distribution of grades. This research...

Biotechnology is one of the world's fastest growing industries, expanding almost four times faster than the G-7 average for all sectors with global demand of US$50 billion in 2005. Biotechnology offers significant economic benefits, particularly in exports and job creation, as well as important health, safety and environmental benefits. Although it...

China is transitioning from an unfunded pay-as-you-go to a funded pension system. Because of a rapidly ageing population, this transition is vital in maintaining the state's ability to fund its future pension liabilities. To complete this transition, China must be able to fund current pension liabilities owed to workers who did not contribute to fu...

A constrained shortest path algorithm is developed and implemented in Matlab to optimize the management decision-making process, which is a potential tool for managers. The constrained shortest path algorithm we developed is tested against other leading methods in the literature and is found to be competitive. The tests are run on randomly generate...

People spend much of their life in an attempt to assess their aptitude for numerous tasks. For example, students expend a great deal of effort to determine their academic standing given a distribution of grades. This research finds that students use their absolute performance, or percentage correct as a yardstick for their self-assessment, even whe...

The purpose of this paper is to determine which firm strategies, perceived benefits of innovation and objectives for innovating in various manufacturing industries are indeed complementary with innovation. The test for complementarity is performed by proving that the data satisfies a set of supermodularity parametric equation restrictions. Our esti...

The purpose of this paper is to propose a research agenda for the measurement of economic impacts of Canadian government R&D support programs. Different methodologies and indicators used to assess benefits from government support programs/agencies for R&D are discussed first. Using available information on major business-related R&D federal program...

The objective of the research is to determine whether past economic performance has an impact on a firm's ability to innovate. Specifically, the concern is with producing a world-first innovation, a Canada-first innovation and a first-to-the firm innovation taking prior performance into consideration. Ordered logistic regression coefficients for ma...

Summary The aims of this paper are to summarize Canadian government programs pertaining to research and development (R&D) and R&D support programs, and to propose a method for analyzing their socio-economic impact. The programs under investigation include: • Canada Research Chairs • Canada Millennium Scholarship Foundation • Canada Foundation for...

The purpose of this paper is to determine whether organizational strategies in various manufacturing industries are complementary with innovation. In particular, our interest is to discover which organizational strategies are complementary with major innovations (world-first and Canada-first). Knowledge of complementarity should pave the way for cr...

This paper examines recent demand systems literature from a methodological standpoint. A survey of the empirical demand systems literature has been assembled that includes 66 articles from 19 separate journals. The paper classifies empirical demand studies according to different methodological paradigms to ascertain if there is a pattern in the dem...

Our paper uses a large cross-sectional survey of establishments to address the question: has IT implementation significantly contributed to Canadian workplace performance? Productivity is a traditional and commonly used measurement of workplace performance. While we use productivity as it has been used in the past, we also include "self-assessment...

The overall objective of this paper was to determine the impact of producing a world-first innovation, a Canada-first innovation and a first-to-the firm innovation on firms' economic performance (employment, labour productivity, market share and total value added). The study used unique data from Statistics Canada's 199928. Statistics Canada (1999)...

This paper constructs an innovation taxonomy that uniquely identifies the innovation profile of Canadian food processing plants. Categorising plants as either product innovators or process innovators is problematic as many do both. In this study, plants are assigned to one of four innovator types. Comprehensive innovators perform all types of innov...

U.S. hog production has become an industrialized process. New technology has caused the scale of operations to increase, and the organizational form of hog farms to change. One of the new organizational forms can be found in North Carolina and Colorado where vertical integration and/or franchise-like production methods prevail. This type of product...

A firm-level model of three-site hog production is used compare a franchise organizational structure to a three-firm alliance. The results of the simulations imply that the franchise system is better equipped to mitigate underproduction in the nursery and finishing units, the nursery and finishing units lose relatively more profit than they otherwi...

The manuscript addresses the choice of organizational form in industrialized hog production. The objectives are to review the relevant theoretical literature on organizational form and create conceptual models of two of the major contractual relationships (alliance and integrator) emerging in the hog sector. Actual contracts are proprietary. Conseq...