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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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Diversifizierungsstrategien deutscher Unternehmen
Görzig, Bernd; Pohl, Ramona - In: AStA Wirtschafts- und Sozialstatistisches Archiv 1 (2007) 3, pp. 179-191
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Do the BRICs and Emerging Markets Differ in their Agrifood Trade?
Haq, Zahoor Ul; Meilke, Karl D. - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2009
, Beijing, China, August 16-22, 2009 …
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Income convergence prospects in Europe: Assessing the role of human capital dynamics
Cuaresma, Jesus Crespo; Havettova, Miroslava; Labaj, Martin - Vienna University of Economics and Business, Department … - 2012
We employ income projection models based on human capital dynamics in order to assess quantitatively the role that educational improvements are expected to play as a driver of future income convergence in Europe. We concentrate on income convergence dynamics between emerging economies in Central...
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The Role of Income Growth in Emerging Markets and the BRICs in Agrifood Trade
Haq, Zahoor Ul; Meilke, Karl D. - Canadian Agricultural Trade Policy Research Network (CATPRN) - 2009
, middle and high-income countries with a special emphasis on Brazil, Russia, India and China – the BRIC economies. The study … agrifood products for the years 1990 to 2006. The results suggest that China, Russia and Brazil have more income elastic import …
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Resetting the Growth Engines of the BRICS Countries as a Reaction to the Global Crisis
Oehler-Sincai, Iulia Monica - In: Revista de Economie Mondiala / The Journal of Global … 5 (2013) 1
China, Brazil, Russia and India) in the world economy and, on the other side, we underscore the remodelling of the patterns … rapidly eased out of the recession in 2009, while China and India continued to record robust growth rates. Nevertheless, in …€™s economic slowdown negatively influences Brazil, Russia, India and South Africa, as China represents the largest trading partner …
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Income convergence prospects in Europe: Assessing the role of human capital dynamics
Crespo Cuaresma, Jesus; Havettová, Miroslava; Lábaj, … - In: Economic Systems 37 (2013) 4, pp. 493-507
We employ income projection models based on human capital dynamics in order to assess quantitatively the role that educational improvements are expected to play as a driver of future income convergence in Europe. We concentrate on income convergence dynamics between emerging economies in Central...
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Information Rigidities in Economic Growth Forecasts; Evidence from a Large International Panel
Dovern, Jonas; Fritsche, Ulrich; Loungani, Prakash; … - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2013
We examine the behavior of forecasts for real GDP growth using a large panel of individual forecasts from 30 advanced and emerging economies during 1989–2010. Our main findings are as follows. First, our evidence does not support the validity of the sticky information model (Mankiw and...
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Unions, training and firm performance
Addison, John T.; Belfield, Clive R. - In: Zeitschrift für ArbeitsmarktForschung - Journal for … 40 (2007) 4, pp. 361-381
"This paper uses data from two British workplace surveys to examine the impact of unions on several training measures. It also evaluates the impact of unions and training on earnings and two measures of firm performance. Union effects on training emerge as fairly subtle, and are more positive...
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Flexibilisierungspotenziale bei heterogenen Arbeitsmärkten : eine Einführung (Potentials for increasing flexibility in heterogeneous labour markets : an introduction)
Fitzenberger, Bernd; Hübler, Olaf; Kraft, Kornelius - In: Zeitschrift für ArbeitsmarktForschung - Journal for … 41 (2008) 2/3, pp. 95-116
"Flexibility and heterogeneity are important topics in labour market research. Since 2004 the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) has funded a research network addressing the issue of 'Flexibility in Heterogeneous Labour Markets', which intends to uncover possibilities for fostering...
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