2025-07-30
This paper uses data from Canadian small and medium-sized enterprises to study the relationship between corporate social responsibility (CSR) and firm productivity, as well as the impact of competition against non-CSR firms on the productivity of CSR firms.
This research uses the recently developed Canadian Employer-Employee Dynamics Database (CEEDD), which contains the universe of firms that filed corporate income taxes in Canada, to study the time until new firms hire their first employee.
The report investigates the role of hierarchy in explaining the wage differential between large and small firms in Canada. The study uses the confidential-use files of the Labour Force Survey (LFS) from 2016 to 2022 and exploits the mini-panels form to control for time-invariant unobserved heterogeneity.
Phoenix Strategic Perspectives Inc. facilitated a series of four workshops with small business advisors. These workshops provided SBB with face-to-face contact with members of the business community to obtain feedback appropriate to a decision on whether or not to proceed with the development of a management competency tool.
This pilot study reports on two relatively unexplored aspects of firm performance: the roles of management competencies and owners' perceptions about success. The research is a pilot test of a Management Competency Index, a diagnostic tool that seeks to measure the nature and diversity of managerial skills and knowledge of owners of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs).
The background to this work stems from Industry Canada's central emphasis in the policy agenda on a strategy to encourage innovation as the engine of growth for productivity and competitiveness in the globalized knowledge-based economy.