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Complementarities between IT and Organizational Structure: The Role of Corporate Exploration and Exploitation
Mahr, Ferdinand; Kretschmer, Tobias - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
The decentralization of organizational decision authority has been shown to be complementary to Information Technology (IT) in prior research. We draw from the information processing view of organizations, the IT and de/centralization debate, and organizational learning theory to argue that IT...
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The tropical timber industry in Gabon: a forward linkages approach to industrialisation
Terheggen, Anne - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
, whose prime activity is the exploitation of logs for processing industries in China, to limit their participation in forward …
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The new kid in the forest: the impact of China's resource demand on Gabon's tropical timber value chain
Terheggen, Anne - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
This dissertation is anchored in the disruptive impact of China’s resource-based economic expansion over the last two … decades. Whilst the country’s economic growth follows traditional patterns of development, the size of China’s population … reversal of commodity exporting countries’ terms of trade are a result of China’s non-marginal impact of consumption. This …
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REPENSER LE FUTUR DE LA POLITIQUE DE COHÉSION EUROPÉENNE POUR LES PAYS D'EUROPE CENTRALE ET ORIENTALE : LA PRISE EN COMPTE DE L'ESPACE GÉOGRAPHIQUE COMME PISTE DE RECHERCHE
Bourdin, Sebastien - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
With the enlargements of the European Union in the East in 2004 and 2007, the regional economic disparities increased profoundly and an effort of solidarity between states was necessary. This paper proposes to identify between the explanatory factors at the origin of the uneven distribution of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011259451
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Repenser le futur de la politique de cohésion européenne pour les pays d’europe centrale et orientale : la prise en compte de l’espace géographique comme piste de recherche
Bourdin, Sebastien - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
With the enlargements of the European Union in the East in 2004 and 2007, the regional economic disparities increased profoundly and an effort of solidarity between states was necessary. This paper proposes to identify between the explanatory factors at the origin of the uneven distribution of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011260332
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Growth and divergence of the polish subregions over 1995–2006: a search for determinants and spatial patterns
Herbst, Mikolaj; Wójcik, Piotr - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
This paper investigates the presence of sigma and beta convergence between the Polish subregions over 1995–2006. We verify for the absolute convergence, as well as for the convergence conditioned on the stock of physical capital, human capital and the size of the central city, these being...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009369620
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Regionale Wachstumseffekte der GRW-Förderung?: Eine räumlich-ökonometrische Analyse auf Basis deutscher Arbeitsmarktregionen
Alecke, Björn; Mitze, Timo; Untiedt, Gerhard - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
This paper provides an analysis of the impact of the German “Joint Task for the Improve-ment of Regional Economic Structures” (GRW) on labour productivity growth of 225 German labour market regions for the period 1994 to 2006. The empirical regression approach builds on a “Barro-type”...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008599099
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The ‘Trade-off’ between Spatial Equity and Economic Efficiency Revisited: Evidence from the US States
Alexiadis, Stilianos; Eleftheriou, Konstantinos - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
The principle aims of regional policy can be encapsulated in terms of ‘spatial equity’ and ‘economic efficiency’. Establishing the relation between these two aims is of fundamental importance. Conventionally, however, it is assumed that there is a conflict or a ‘trade-off’ between...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008490074
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Regional convergence and the causal impact of migration on regional growth rates
Kirdar, Murat; Saracoglu, Sirin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
The standard growth theory predicts that allowing for labor mobility across regions would increase the speed of convergence in per capita income levels and that migration has a negative causal impact on regional growth rates. Although the empirical literature has uncovered some evidence for the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005619903
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Migration and Regional Convergence: An Empirical Investigation for Turkey
Kirdar, Murat; Saracoglu, Sirin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
The standard growth model predicts that allowing for labor mobility across regions would increase the speed of convergence in per capita income levels and that migration has a negative causal impact on regional growth rates. Although the empirical literature has uncovered some evidence for the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005621477