The paper determines the factors affecting the export performance of firms in three main manufacturing sectors in the Philippines. Specifically, firm-level characteristics like firm size, firm age, and foreign affiliation are identified and statistically tested to determine if it affects a...

The paper determines the factors affecting the export performance of firms in three main manufacturing sectors in the Philippines. Specifically, firm-level characteristics like firm size, firm age, and foreign affiliation are identified and statistically tested to determine if they affect a...

The paper determines the factors affecting the export performance of firms in three main manufacturing sectors in the Philippines. Specifically, firm-level characteristics like firm size, firm age, and foreign affiliation are identified and statistically tested to determine if it affects a...

The paper determines the factors affecting the export performance of firms in three main manufacturing sectors in the Philippines. Specifically, firm-level characteristics like firm size, firm age, and foreign affiliation are identified and statistically tested to determine if they affect a...

Purpose - This study investigates how ICT adoption enhances the innovativeness of informal firms in West Africa, using the cases of Ghana and Nigeria. Design/methods/approach - The study used the World Bank Enterprise Survey data 2014 for Ghana and Nigeria with binary logistic regression...

Die Wahl zwischen Diversifikation und Spezialisierung ist eine lange und kontrovers diskutierte Frage in der industrieökonomischen Forschung. Inzwischen ist es möglich, anhand von Mikrodaten auf Unternehmensebene die Gestaltung der Produktpalette von Unternehmen zu untersuchen. In dieser...

Die Wahl zwischen Diversifikation und Spezialisierung ist eine lange und kontrovers diskutierte Frage in der industrieökonomischen Forschung. Inzwischen ist es möglich, anhand von Mikrodaten auf Unternehmensebene die Gestaltung der Produktpalette von Unternehmen zu untersuchen. In dieser...

Purpose - This study investigates how ICT adoption enhances the innovativeness of informal firms in West Africa, using the cases of Ghana and Nigeria. Design/methods/approach - The study used the World Bank Enterprise Survey data 2014 for Ghana and Nigeria with binary logistic regression...

This paper uses micro data and published compilations of micro data to estimate shares of multinational corporations (MNCs) in Southeast Asian manufacturing. It first shows that MNC shares tended to be largest in Singapore, intermediate in Malaysia and (recently) in Vietnam, and lowest in...

This paper examines the causal relationship between exporting and productivity using a ten years long plant-level panel data set from an annual census of Ethiopian manufacturing, rarely available in the sub-Saharan Africa. We exploited its length to trace the trajectory of TFP and other...