Does Innovation Foster or Mitigate the Corruption Obstacle? Firm-Level Evidence from Tunisia

Sdiri, Hanen; Ayadi, Mohamed

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“…Using firm-level data from Tunisia and Egypt, Goedhuys et al, (2016) reveal that corruption negatively influences a firm's innovator likelihood. In the Tunisian context and using firm-level data from the World Bank Enterprise Survey, Sdiri and Ayadi (2022) demonstrate that Tunisian firms consider corruption as a major obstacle to their operations, notably innovation activities. Recently, Weng et al, (2021) studied the impact of both formal and informal institutions on firms' innovation.…”

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Impact of Formal and Informal Institutional Constraints on Innovation: Firm-Level Evidence from Tunisia

Sdiri

2023

J Knowl Econ

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Using data from the 2020 World Bank Enterprise Survey in Tunisia, we analyze the joint impact of formal and informal institutional constraints on the types of firms' innovation. Moreover, we were interested in estimating the effect of the interaction between the two institutional constraints on the types of innovation. The main results of the econometric analysis show that the government system constraints have a positive and statistically significant effect on the likelihood of being an imitator. Furthermore, we show that the legal system constraints have a negative effect on the likelihood of being an innovator, but a positive effect on the probability of being an innovation pretender. We find a significant negative direct effect of commercial bribery on firm innovation. Moreover, the results show that the positive (negative) effect of the constraints from the government system (of the constraints from the legal system) on the probability of innovation will be alleviated by commercial bribery.

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Section: The Link Between Formal Institutions and Innovationmentioning

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Impact of Formal and Informal Institutional Constraints on Innovation: Firm-Level Evidence from Tunisia

Sdiri

2023

J Knowl Econ

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“…Green innovation promotes less pollution, as well as other objectives such as energy saving, green product design, waste recycling, and/or corporate environmental management (Chen et al, 2006, p. 332). Innovation in this regard could refer to product or process innovation, where the latter refers to major changes in production and distribution methods (Sdiri, 2022). Tycoons might choose to defend their market share by lobbying for strict regulations that prevent competition from rival entities.…”

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State‐society relations and industrial sustainable growth: The case of post‐Revolution Tunisia

Sabry

2023

Sustainable Development

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This paper investigates the effect of state‐society relations (SSR) in the industrial sector on the sustainable economic growth of post‐Revolution Tunisia. The empirical part of the paper depends mainly on qualitative data collected from fieldwork interviews with the most important actors and publications of civil society organizations. The paper suggests the presence of state capture as the defining characteristic of SSR in post‐Revolution Tunisia. The combination of having powerful tycoons, weaker state, and ineffectively organized social actors produced conditions that harmed sustainability. These settings allowed tycoons to violate environmental regulations and prevented Green innovation through the adoption of Green technologies. Yet, factors such as low value‐added creation, increased labor‐intensity, and low environmental awareness or prioritization all interact with state capture to lower sustainability. In those sectors where tycoons are active and dominant, competing social actors are incapable of effectively exploiting the presence of a freer political system, ultimately failing to successfully organize resisting coalitions, as evident in the textile sector. While higher resistance is witnessed where tycoons are not dominant as was the case in the phosphate sector, tycoons could still use the situation to their advantage.

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“…Regarding the financial sector, technological innovation allowed the expansion and diversification of the use and access of financial services, increasing transactions and liquidity, eliminating barriers of spatial differentiation between users and financial institutions (Freitas, 2013;Sdiri & Ayadi, 2021). Technological innovation enables the use of financial services in an easy, safe, and fast way, such as buying investment products, insurance, and credits online, as well as, it is a great opportunity for the execution of financial inclusion and microcredit programs (Beck et al, 2016;Demirgüç-Kunt et al, 2018;Sharmila, 2019).…”

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The Relationship Between Inclusion, Financial Innovation and Economic Growth in Sub-Saharan African Countries: A PVAR Approach

Jungo¹,

Madaleno²,

Botelho³

2022

R. Econ. and Finan.

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The objective of this paper is to examine the relationship between inclusion, financial innovation, and economic growth. The goal is to verify the existence of a bidirectional relationship between the three variables. For this purpose, we use the Panel Vector Autoregressive (PVAR) model in the Generalized Method of Moments (GMM) on data from 46 Sub-Saharan African countries. The results confirm the existence of a positive and unidirectional relationship between economic growth and financial innovation and the existence of a unidirectional relationship between financial inclusion and economic growth. Additionally, our results show that there is a bidirectional relationship between economic growth and investment. Regarding practical implications, this study jointly analyzes three current and interrelated topics that pose a problem for the African continent and expands the scarce literature on financial development and economic growth. As for originality, this study considers the possibility of a bidirectional relationship between inclusion, financial innovation, and economic growth using a sample of 46 sub-Saharan African countries covering the period 2005-2018, a fact that was ignored in previous studies when they examined only unidirectional causality.

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Does Innovation Foster or Mitigate the Corruption Obstacle? Firm-Level Evidence from Tunisia

Cited by 7 publications

References 36 publications

Impact of Formal and Informal Institutional Constraints on Innovation: Firm-Level Evidence from Tunisia

Impact of Formal and Informal Institutional Constraints on Innovation: Firm-Level Evidence from Tunisia

State‐society relations and industrial sustainable growth: The case of post‐Revolution Tunisia

The Relationship Between Inclusion, Financial Innovation and Economic Growth in Sub-Saharan African Countries: A PVAR Approach

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