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Characterizing the Production Process: A Disaggregated Analysis of Italian Manufacturing Firms
Bottazzi, Giulio; Grazzi, Marco; Secchi, Angelo - In: Rivista di Politica Economica 95 (2005) 1, pp. 291-318
This paper provides a description of the production process by comparing different frameworks in which to analyze the relations between inputs and output. The analyses are performed on a representative sample of Italian manufacturing firms. We employ both parametric and non-parametric analysis....
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International Differences in Lean Production, Productivity and Employee Attitudes
Helper, Susan; Kleiner, Morris M. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007
The study examines US-European productivity and worker attitude differences, focusing on changes in incentive structures. We analyze productivity and worker attitudes in five plants in the UK and US belonging to the same multinational producer of automotive sensors and actuators. We examine the...
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Counterfeiters: Foes or Friends? How Do Counterfeits Affect Different Product Quality Tiers?
Qian, Yi - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011
A key concern about counterfeits and weak intellectual property protection is that they may hamper innovation by displacing legitimate sales. This paper combines a natural policy experiment with randomized lab experiments to estimate the heterogeneous impacts of counterfeiting on the sales and...
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Are ICT Users More Innovative?: an Analysis of ICT-Enabled Innovation in OECD Firms
Spiezia, Vincenzo - In: OECD Journal: Economic Studies 2011 (2011) 1, pp. 1-21
evidence that ICT use increases the capability of a firm to co-operate, to develop innovation in-house or to introduce products …
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Could Mexico become the new "China"? : policy drivers of competitiveness and productivity
Dougherty, Sean M.; Escobar, Octavio R. - 2016
Over the last decade, Mexico’s unit labour costs decreased relative to other emerging markets’, especially compared to China’s. This decrease boosted Mexico’s trade competitiveness, particularly in the manufacturing sector. However, Mexico’s increasing competitiveness masks one of the...
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Information and Communication Technologies: Cagliari’s Production System
Deidda, Dolores - In: QA - Rivista dell'Associazione Rossi-Doria (2013) 1
This article analyzes the evolution of Cagliari’s local ICT system. Established at the end of the 1990s, the local … firm eager to achieve first mover advantage. Recently, despite the economic crisis, the Cagliari ICT system has shown signs … of recovery stimulated by a new generation of entrepreneurs capable of competing in ICT service market niches at the …
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Pros and Cons of Globalization : Income-Based Attitudes
Razin, Asaf - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Which income group is pro-globalization or anti-globalization--the wealthy skilled-labor or the poor low-skilled labor? How globalization affect income-based attitudes towards globalization? The paper addresses these issues in the framework of a small open economy which trades in goods and...
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Deutungshoheit der Religionen? Weltanschauung und Wirtschaft im Horizont globaler Institutionen und in Auseinandersetzung mit der Ethik von Eilert Herms (Reflections on the Interre...
Munzinger, Andre - In: Zeitschrift für Wirtschafts- und Unternehmensethik - … 11 (2010) 1, pp. 35-50
-views. With regard to the challenges that globalisation presents this position attains strong relevance and requires careful …
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Global value chains and domestic innovation
Itō, Keiko; Ikeuchi, Kenta; Criscuolo, Chiara; Timmis, … - In: Research policy : policy, management and economic … 52 (2023) 3, pp. 1-22
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The politics of commoditization in global ICT industries : a political economy explanation of the rise of Apple, Google, and industry disruptors
Kushida, Kenji E. - In: Journal of industry, competition and trade 15 (2015) 1, pp. 49-67
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