01722nam a22001577a 4500999001900000008004100019100005900060245008900119260004400208300003800252520098100290650012901271773004401400942000701444952011301451  c532995d532995260410b           ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  aRaihan, Selim  Uddin, Mahtab and  Khan, Farhan 960031  aWhat drives firms to innovate? Empirical evidence from firm-level cross-country data  aThe Indian Journal of Labour Economics   a68(4), Oct-Dec, 2025: p.1187-1208  aWe examine the factors influencing firms’ decision to innovate, where innovations are defined as: (i) process innovation, (ii) product innovation, (iii) market innovation, and (iv) a combination of these innovations. We use the World Bank Standardised Enterprise Survey (WB-SES) data 2019, which provides firm-level microdata on 82,497 firms from 142 countries covering 51 sectors. Using least square dummy variable (LSDV) estimation and controlling for country-, year-, and sector-fixed effects, we find that factors such as export orientation, firm size, competition in the domestic (informal) market, training of the workers, and top female managers positively influence firms’ decision to innovate. Furthermore, we find a significant inverse U relationship between institutional variables such as bribes, quality of bureaucracy, and political instability, on a firm’s decisions to innovate.-Reproduced 

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  aProduct Innovation, Process Innovation, Market Innovation, Factors affecting innovations World Bank Enterprise Survey960032  aThe Indian Journal of Labour Economics   cAR  00102ddc40709408166aIIPAbIIPAd2026-04-10h68(4), Oct-Dec, 2025: p.1187-1208pAR138507r2026-04-10yAR