Chris J. Uregian's research while affiliated with World Bank and other places
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Publications (3)
In January 2008, the Turkish Government requested the World Bank to jointly undertake an assessment of its National Innovation System (NIS) in order to help guide its ongoing efforts to deepen the role of innovation in the Turkish economy. This report identifies the recent progress and key ongoing challenges facing Turkey's NIS and draws on interna...
The international diffusion of technology presents an opportunity for developing economies distant from the world technological frontier to reduce their income gap relative to advanced economies. It is therefore crucial to understand why, when faced with similar technological alternatives different firms in different countries choose to adopt diffe...
Survey data for 7,000 firms in 28 countries in Eastern Europe and Central Asia are used to examine the correlates of technology adoption proxied by ISO certification and web use. Complementary inputs such as skilled labor, managerial capacity, research and development, finance, and good infrastructure are shown to be important correlates of technol...
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... Moreover, the entrepreneur's personal characteristics substantially influence the adoption of technology in organisations (Lin 2014; Staw 1991). Thus, the educational level of the entrepreneur and of the senior management is a particularly influential factor in the adoption of new technology (Autry et al. 2010; Correa et al. 2010), even in less technology-intensive industries (Romero and Martínez-Román 2015). Other research has highlighted the importance of the entrepreneurs' professional experience (Tang and Murphy 2012) and their management style (Venkatesh and Bala 2008) in technology adoption, noting that support by the top management is crucial in overcoming barriers against change and the incorporation of new technology (Ragu-Nathan et al. 2004). ...
... The authors in [45] conducted a firm-level study across several countries, including using the gross domestic product per capita as a control variable. The authors in [46] developed an econometric model with firm-level data from several countries, considering gross domestic product per capita as a fixed effect at the country level. This variable ensures the comparability of econometric estimates corresponding to the other variables simultaneously. ...
