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Cluster Development Programs in Latin America and the Caribbean: Lessons from the Experience of the Inter-American Development Bank
Pietrobelli, Carlo; Stevenson, Claudia - Inter-American Development Bank - 2011
National and local governments, international organizations and donors are increasingly using the instrument of cluster development programs (CDP) to promote economic development. This paper builds on the recent experiences of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) in financing and executing...
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Innovation, Research and Development, and Productivity: Case Studies from Peru
Kuramoto, Juana - Inter-American Development Bank - 2011
This paper analyzes quantitative findings on the innovative behavior of firms in the production chains of pisco and shoe manufacture in Peru, which are served by the network of Technological Innovation Centers (CITEs), the most important technology policy instrument available in Peru. These two...
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Aid Effectiveness: Politics Matters
Bobba, Matteo; Powell, Andrew - Inter-American Development Bank - 2007
The literature on aid effectiveness has focused more on recipient policies than the determinants of aid allocation yet a consistent result is that political allies obtain more aid from donors than non-allies. This paper shows that aid allocated to political allies is ineffective for growth,...
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Analysis of Several Productive Development Policies in Uruguay
Barrios, Juan Jose; Gandelman, Nestor; Michelin, Gustavo - Inter-American Development Bank - 2010
This paper reviews and assesses some of the Productive Development Policies currently being implemented in Uruguay. Three horizontal and three vertical policies are considered in light of the market and public failures they attempt to address and minimize. Horizontal policies comprise...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008518152
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Business-Government Interaction in Policy Councils in Latin America - Cheap Talk, Expensive Exchanges, or Collaborative Learning?
Schneider, Ben Ross - Inter-American Development Bank - 2010
While effective industrial policy requires close cooperation between government and business, there is little agreement on what makes that cooperation work best. This paper analyzes institutional arrangements for public-private cooperation and the character of private sector representation....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008677815
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Innovation, investment and regulation : What are the options for regulation in the near future ?.
Jennequin, Hugues; Flacher, David; Lorenzi, Jean-Hervé - Université Paris-Dauphine - 2006
This paper addresses the question of what options are available to regulate the sector in the near future. In order to answer this question, the paper focuses on the problem of investment and innovation in an ex ante regulated sector. Relying on existing literature, we argue that ex ante...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008532729
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A model for evaluating affective relationships in distributed work.
Pallud, Jessie; Josserand, Emmanuel - Université Paris-Dauphine
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Impacts of team virtuality on performance : a qualitative study.
Kalika, Michel; Jawadi, Nabila - Université Paris-Dauphine
this paper is to assess how the variability of team virtuality influences team performance. A multidimensional approach to … evaluate virtuality was elaborated to identify changing performance variables at each level. The performance variables retained … results show that performance measures are differently influenced by virtuality level. Although output quality seems not to be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008532637
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Vers une tentative de représentation de l’entreprise autour du concept de vision : une analyse de la littérature.
Ederlé, Nicolas - Université Paris-Dauphine
Constatant qu’en gestion il est souvent fait référence au terme de vision et d’entreprise ou de dirigeant “ visionnaires ”, mais que paradoxalement il n’existe pas de définitions précises de ces termes, notre recherche se propose d’effectuer une analyse de la littérature portant...
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Le partenariat vertical dans l'industrie aéronautique : vers une configuration contrôle adaptée aux évolutions de l'environnement.
Donada, Carole; Nogatchewsky, Gwenaëlle - Université Paris-Dauphine
Cette recherche a pour objectif d’étudier l’adaptation d’une configuration de contrôle inter- organisationnelle (en termes de stratégie, de structure et de contrôle) aux évolutions de l’environnement. La recherche empirique est basée sur une étude de cas auprès d’un motoriste...
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