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Turbulence, Flexibility and Performance of the Long-lived Small Firm
Power, Bernadette; Reid, Gavin C - Tinbergen Instituut - 2003
in Scotland. New measures of flexibility and turbulence are used to explain the performance of mature small firms. These … depend on our unique body of evidence from interviews with owner managers. Performance is measured using a Likert scale over … performance. This is done in two forms. The first involves generalised least squares estimation (with heteroskedastic adjustment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011257108
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Unraveling the Shift to the Entrepreneurial Economy
Audretsch, D.B.; Thurik, A.R. - Tinbergen Instituut - 2010
significantly increased, and (2) a positive relationship exists between entrepreneurial activity and economic performance. However …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011257351
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A Divergent Path of Industrial Upgrading: Emergence and Evolution of the Mobile Handset Industry in China
Imai, Ken'ichi; Shiu, Jingming - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2007
Starting from almost null in the late 1990s, China's mobile phone handset industry has grown to account for more than 40 percent of the current world production. While export growth has been overwhelmingly led by multi-national corporations (MNCs), increasingly fierce competition in the domestic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005534134
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Technology network for machine tools in Vietnam
Mizuno, Junko - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2012
When Vietnam joined the WTO, it accepted foreign direct investment and started to grow. Technically, it was then greatly influenced by the enterprises that entered the country through direct investment. This report shows that the technology network for machine tools is formed via direct...
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Yangtze River Delta's system integration: institutional barriers and countermeasures
Zhang, Yu - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2010
This paper addresses the issue of institutional barriers to the Yangtze River Delta integration and the resulting slow development. It analyzes the problems including the coordination of local interests and regional interests, market segmentation during the regional integration, competition for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008764554
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Impact of product-related environmental regulations / voluntary requirements on Thai firms
Ramungul, Nudjarin; Michida, Etsuyo; Nabeshima, Kaoru - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2013
products’ environmental performance and chemical safety. To comply with these modern regulations, production practices along …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011134414
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Optimal Diversity in Investments with Recombinant Innovation
Bergh, Jeroen C.J.M. van den; Zeppini-Rossi, Paolo - Tinbergen Instituut - 2008
This discussion paper resulted in a publication in <I>Structural Change and Economic Dynamics</I>, 2013, 24, 141-156.<P> We address the notion of dynamic, endogenous diversity and its role in theories of investment and technological innovation. We develop a formal model of an innovation arising from the...</p></i>
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011255510
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The Pollution Effects of Mergers and Acquisitions: Asymmetry, Disaggregation, and Multilateralism
Swart, Julia; Marrewijk, Charles van - Tinbergen Instituut - 2011
This paper studies the impact of cross-border Mergers and Acquisitions (M&As) on Carbon Dioxide emissions. Carbon Dioxide is the main anthropogenic greenhouse gas. A global problem that requires a multilateral solution. To take this into account we introduce an institutional variable, which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011255767
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Modelling R&D and Innovation Support Systems – Analysis of Regional Cluster Structures in Innovation in Portugal
Vaz, Teresa de Noronha; Galindo, Purificación Vicente; … - Tinbergen Instituut - 2013
This paper offers a new methodology to identify R&D and innovation clusters, on the basis of a regional analysis of innovation support systems in Portugal. Using a web-based inventory of R&D and innovation agencies, an extensive data base is created. This data set is next analyzed by means of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011255791
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Competing Recombinant Technologies for Environmental Innovation
Zeppini, Paolo; Bergh, Jeroen C.J.M. van den - Tinbergen Instituut - 2010
This discussion paper resulted in a publication in 'Industry and Innovation', 2011, 18(3), 317-334.<P> This article presents a model of sequential decisions about investments in environmentally dirty and clean technologies, which extends the path-dependence framework of Arthur (1989). This allows...</p>
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