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Modern Management: Good for the Environment or just Hot Air?
bloom, nicholas; Martin, Ralf; Sadun, Raffaella; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008
We use an innovative methodology to measure management practices in over 300 manufacturing firms in the UK. We then match this management data to production and energy usage information for establishments owned by these firms. We find that establishments in better managed firms are significantly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005718073
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Half a Century of Public Software Institutions: Open Source as a Solution to Hold-Up Problem
Schwarz, Michael; Takhteyev, Yuri - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009
We argue that the intrinsic inefficiency of proprietary software has historically created a space for alternative institutions that provide software as a public good. We discuss several sources of such inefficiency, focusing on one that has not been described in the literature: the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005012917
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DELPHI: O Futuro da Moda de Santa Catarina ? Previsões entre 2008 e 2012
Locks, Eliza Bianchini Dallanhol; Martignago, Graciella; … - Departamento de Gestão e Economia, Instituto … - 2009
Este artigo apresenta o resultado da pesquisa sobre ?O Futuro da Moda em Santa Catarina?. Os resultados apresentados correspondem a uma pesquisa DELPHI realizada com especialistas do setor, compostos por empresários e acadêmicos. O objetivo fundamental foi o de identificar o cenário...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008459791
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When the innovator fails to capture rents from innovation
Ferreira, Manuel Portugal; Serra, Fernando Ribeiro; … - Departamento de Gestão e Economia, Instituto … - 2013
innovation, the business and social ties connecting firms deepen the hazards associated to the appropriation of rents. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011140921
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Impact of the types of clusters on the innovation output and the appropriation of rents from innovation
Ferreira, Manuel Portugal; Serra, Fernando Ribeiro; … - Departamento de Gestão e Economia, Instituto … - 2013
The ability to generate innovations and capture the rents from innovation are important for firms’ competitive … innovation output, the knowledge flows among the clustered firms and, ultimately, on who captures the rents from innovation. The … rents from innovation. Extant research has noted that the social and business networks binding firms in clusters are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011140922
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Communities, Knowledge, and Innovation: Indian Immigrants in the US Semiconductor Industry
Almeida, Paul; Phene, Anupama; Li, Sali - Departamento de Gestão e Economia, Instituto … - 2010
This paper investigates the influence of technological, geographic, and ethnic communities on the innovativeness of Indian inventors. We study Indian inventors in the semiconductor industry in the US and examine their patenting profiles between 1975 and 1999 to identify the influences on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008529093
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Open and closed industry clusters: The social structure of innovation
Ferreira, Manuel Portugal; Serra, Fernando A. Ribeiro - Departamento de Gestão e Economia, Instituto … - 2008
In this paper we discuss knowledge and innovation in clusters and the benefits of clustering from a knowledge …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005736309
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Toward an Understanding of Learning by Doing: Evidence from an Automobile Assembly Plant
Levitt, Steven; list, john; Syverson, Chad - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
Productivity improvements within establishments (e.g., factories, mines, or retail stores) are an important source of aggregate productivity growth. Past research has documented that learning by doing-productivity improvements that occur in concert with production increases-is one source of such...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011227956
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Learning by Doing in a Multi-Product Manufacturing Environment: Product Variety, Customizations, and Overlapping Product Generations
Egelman, Carolyn D.; Epple, Dennis; Argote, Linda; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
Extending research on organizational learning to multi-product environments is of particular importance given that the vast majority of products are manufactured in such environments. We investigate learning in a multi-product facility drawing on exceptionally rich data for a manufacturing firm...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010714169
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Agglomerative Forces and Cluster Shapes
Kerr, William R.; Kominers, Scott Duke - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010
We model spatial clusters of similar firms. Our model highlights how agglomerative forces lead to localized, individual connections among firms, while interaction costs generate a defined distance over which attraction forces operate. Overlapping firm interactions yield agglomeration clusters...
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