IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/p/hal/wpaper/hal-03282724.html
   My bibliography  Save this paper

Determinants of process innovation in developing countries: Does a firm's formal versus informal status matter?

Author

Listed:
  • Dorgyles C.M. Kouakou

    (UEA - Unité d'Économie Appliquée - ENSTA Paris - École Nationale Supérieure de Techniques Avancées)

Abstract

Process innovation has been documented and shown to exert positive effects on firms' economic performance, especially on productivity. In view of these effects, a stream of literature has been developed concerning its determinants. However, in the context of developing countries, the potential effect of a firm's formal versus informal status on the introduction of process innovation specifically has been overlooked. In this paper, by using firm-level data from Côte d'Ivoire, a firm's formality status is found to influence positively and significantly the introduction of process innovation. This result remains unchanged when one considers the industrial, services and trade sectors separately. Policy implications are discussed.

Suggested Citation

  • Dorgyles C.M. Kouakou, 2021. "Determinants of process innovation in developing countries: Does a firm's formal versus informal status matter?," Working Papers hal-03282724, HAL.
    • Handle: RePEc:hal:wpaper:hal-03282724
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    To our knowledge, this item is not available for download. To find whether it is available, there are three options:
    1. Check below whether another version of this item is available online.
    2. Check on the provider's web page whether it is in fact available.
    3. Perform a search for a similarly titled item that would be available.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:hal:wpaper:hal-03282724. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: CCSD (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/ .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.