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Financing the capital development of the economy: A Keynes-Schumpeter-Minsky synthesis
Mazzucato, Mariana; Wray, L. Randall - 2015
This paper discusses the role that finance plays in promoting the capital development of the economy, with particular emphasis on the current situation of the United States and the United Kingdom. We define both "finance" and "capital development" very broadly. We begin with the observation that...
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Workers' awareness context in Italian 4.0 factories
Cirillo, Valeria; Rinaldini, Matteo; Staccioli, Jacopo; … - 2018
The study of the co-evolution of processes of technological innovation and the resulting organisational changes has …
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Control in the era of surveillance capitalism: An empirical investigation of Italian Industry 4.0 factories
Moro, Angelo; Rinaldini, Matteo; Staccioli, Jacopo; … - 2019
We explore the extent to which the current technological trend, dubbed Industry 4.0, might increase forms of control inside organisations, by focussing on pivotal firms in the so-called Italian Motor Valley currently embracing its adoption. We find that Industry 4.0 technologies open up great...
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Trade unions' responses to Industry 4.0 amid corporatism and resistance
Cirillo, Valeria; Rinaldini, Matteo; Staccioli, Jacopo; … - 2020
The aim of this paper is to shed light on the paths, directions, and ensuing degrees of technological adoption fostered by trade unions or, alternatively, forms of resistance thereof, in the so called 'Italian Motor-Valley', a distinctive technological district located in the outskirts of...
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Towards the factory 4.0? Convergence and divergence of lean models in Italian automotive plants
Moro, Angelo; Virgillito, Maria Enrica - 2021
-organisational configurations of these factories confirm that this wave of technological innovation is far from leading to total automation or the …
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Firm size, managerial practices and innovativeness: Some evidence from Finnish manufacturing
Koski, Heli; Marengo, Luigi; Mäkinen, Iiro - 2009
appear to be vast differences in the organizational practices leading to more innovation both between small and large firms …, and between the firms that operate in high- and low-tech industries. While innovation in small firms benefits from the … incentive for innovation among the sampled companies seems to be the ownership of a firm's stocks by employees and/or managers …
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The cost-quantity relations and the diverse patterns of "learning by doing": Evidence from India
Dosi, Giovanni; Grazzi, Marco; Mathew, Nanditha - 2016
"Learning-by-doing" is usually identified as a process whereby performance increases with experience in production. The paper investigates different patterns of "learning by doing", studying learning curves at product level. Cost-quantity relationships differ a lot across products belonging to...
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The dynamics of skills: Technology and business cycles
Cirillo, Valeria; Pianta, Mario; Nascia, Leopoldo - 2015
except managers experience job losses that are mainly driven by the introduction of process innovation. In services, a … hold. During the downswing most established links break down; in particular, product innovation loses its positive impact …
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Financial regimes, financialization patterns and industrial performances: Preliminary remarks
Dosi, Giovanni; Revest, Valerie; Sapio, Alessandro - 2016
de-linked the performance of firms on the financial markets from the determinants of firm-level growth and innovation …, financialization has contributed to compress and somewhat degrade the specific properties of the finance-innovation nexus of both …
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Digital technologies, employment and skills
Reljic, Jelena; Evangelista, Rinaldo; Pianta, Mario - 2019
The diffusion of digital technologies and their impact on employment and skills is investigated inthis article considering six major European countries (Germany, France, Spain, Italy, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom) and 42 manufacturing and service industriesover the 2009-2014 period. We...
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