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This paper carries out an empirical assessment of the relationship between social capital and labour productivity in small and medium enterprises in Italy. By means of structural equations models, the analysis investigates the effect of different aspects of the multifaceted concept of social...
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The current research emphasis on institutions as key determinants of economic performance, rather than on resources and resource productivity, has uncovered important questions for further research. For example, if institutions are central to economic performance, then what explains observed...
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Institutions either promote or constrain economic performance, but which parts of institutions advance or restrict performance, and why do economies sharing similar institutions sometimes perform differently? This paper is a modest attempt at addressing a small part of these questions. It...
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This paper carries out an empirical assessment of the relationship between social capital and labour productivity in small and medium enterprises in Italy. By means of structural equations models, the analysis investigates the effect of different aspects of the multifaceted concept of social...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005134471
This paper carries out an empirical assessment of the relationship between social capital and labour productivity in small and medium enterprises in Italy. By means of structural equations models, the analysis investigates the effect of different aspects of the multifaceted concept of social...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005062485
This paper carries out an empirical assessment of the relationship between social capital and labour productivity in small and medium enterprises in Italy. By means of structural equations models, the analysis investigates the effect of different aspects of the multifaceted concept of social...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005407818
diffuse new knowledge is key in enabling countries to capitalise on challenges brought about by rapid technology …-driven transformations rather than succumb to their adverse effects. In particular, we look at the importance of new knowledge emanating from … both domestic and foreign sources in the innovation process in view of the contention that "international technology …
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satisfy an indefinite range of wants and firms' incentive to utilize knowledge from past production experiences. We show that … firms endogenously form a number of distinguishable industries as accumulated knowledge induces them to agglomerate in the … technology space. Knowledge accumulation in existing industries reduces production costs, but, as the diminishing returns from …
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separately from innovation indicators, and the importance of language based on codified and tacit knowledge is emphasized. The …This paper examines the social impacts of the development of science, technology and innovation indicators. The … knowledge is codified in manuals, and the tacit knowledge is held in overlapping communities of practice that develop the …
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production, creation and transfer of knowledge in public and private Sudanese universities. Our results verify the hypotheses … that the use of ICT, mainly Internet, facilitates connections, networks and communication within knowledge institutions in … knowledge production. Our findings support the hypothesis that the use of ICT enhances access, production and dissemination of …
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