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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...
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Financing the capital development of the economy: A Keynes-Schumpeter-Minsky synthesis
Mazzucato, Mariana; Wray, Larry Randall - 2015
greatest explosion of financial innovation the world had ever seen. Financial fragility grew until the economy collapsed into … the global financial crisis. At the same time, we saw that much (or even most) of the financial innovation was directed … attention to increasing funding of the innovation process. For that reason, we will look not only to Minsky's ideas on the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011545297
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Innovation via global route: Proposing a reference model for chances and challenges of global innovation processes
Tiwari, Rajnish; Buse, Stephan; Herstatt, Cornelius - 2007
specific needs of targeted markets. All these developments are leading to the globalization of innovation. Based on recent … reference model for chances and challenges of global innovation activities. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010308112
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Effects of policy reforms on firm innovation
Şeker, Murat; Ulu, Mehmet Fatih - 2022
the impact of a particular regulation - license requirements for certain firm activities - on the innovation performance … led to an eight percentage points higher innovation rate within two years following the reform. We measure innovation as …
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Mapping the future of high value manufacturing in India
Kathuria, Rajat; Kedia, Mansi; Balakrishnan, Uttara - 2014
Indi's stagnating manufacturing sector has become a serious cause of concern for Indian policy makers. Several reasons have been identified for this slowdown, including lack of policy focus, unsupportive external environment, etc. Given the importance of the manufacturing sector and its...
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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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Impact of macro-economic environment on diversification-performance relationship: A cross country study of India and Japan
Purkayastha, Saptarshi - 2013
Integrating the impact of resources and institutional factors, this study compares and contrasts the dynamic relationships between product diversification, business group affiliation and firm performance in two major economies in Asia. India and Japan have been chosen as they represent different...
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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...
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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...
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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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