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Innovation and SMEs patent propensity in Korea

Han, Junghee; Heshmati, Almas - 2015

This paper analyzes the patent propensity as an outcome of innovative activities of regional SMEs. To achieve the aims … firms designated as innovative SMEs by the government are not performing differently than general firms. Only the CEO … considered to actively promote SMEs innovativeness. …

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The quality-complementarity hypothesis : theory and evidence from Colombia

Kugler, Maurice (contributor); Verhoogen, Eric (contributor) - 2009

This paper presents a tractable formalization and an empirical investigation of the quality-complementarity hypothesis, the hypothesis that input quality and plant productivity are complementary in generating output quality. We embed this complementarity in a general-equilibrium trade model with...

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Local human capital externalities and wages at the firm level : the case of Italian manufacturing

Bratti, Massimiliano; Leombruni, Roberto - 2009

issues using instrumental variables estimation and instruments based on the lagged expansion of the Italian higher education …

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Performance appraisal : dimensions and determinants

Bayo-Moriones, Alberto; Galdón-Sánchez, José Enrique; … - 2011

The determinants of the dimensions that shape a formal system of performance appraisal are studied in relation to a sample of Spanish manufacturing establishments. In particular, the factors that influence the measures used to evaluate performance, the person who carries out such appraisal and...

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Return of the Solow paradox? : IT, productivity, and employment in US manufacturing

Acemoglu, Daron; Autor, David H.; Dorn, David; Hanson, … - 2014

An increasingly influential "technological-discontinuity" paradigm suggests that IT-induced technological changes are rapidly raising productivity while making workers redundant. This paper explores the evidence for this view among the IT-using U.S. manufacturing industries. There is some...

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Multinationals as stabilizers? : Economic crisis and plant employment growth

Álvarez, Roberto (contributor); Görg, Holger (contributor) - 2007

This paper examines the link between multinational enterprises and employment growth at the plant-level. We investigate in detail the comparative response of multinationals and domestic firms to an economic crisis, using the empirical setting of a well defined case of economic slowdown in Chile...

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Firm-level upgrading in developing countries

Verhoogen, Eric - 2021

In principle, firms in developing countries benefit from the fact that advanced technologies and products have already been developed in industrialized countries and can simply be adopted, a process often referred to as industrial upgrading. But for many firms this advantage remains elusive....

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What drives differences in management?

Bloom, Nicholas; Brynjolfsson, Erik; Foster, Lucia; … - 2017

Partnering with the Census we implement a new survey of "structured" management practices in 32,000 US manufacturing plants. We find an enormous dispersion of management practices across plants, with 40% of this variation across plants within the same firm. This management variation accounts for...

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Investment and subjective uncertainty

Bloom, Nicholas; Davis, Steven J.; Foster, Lucia; … - 2022

A longstanding challenge in evaluating the impact of uncertainty on investment is obtaining measures of managers' subjective uncertainty. We address this challenge by using a detailed new survey measure of subjective uncertainty collected by the U.S. Census Bureau for approximately 25,000...

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