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Learning by Viewing? Social Learning, Regulatory Disclosure, and Firm Productivity in Shale Gas
Fetter, T. Robert - 2018
In many industries firms can learn about new technologies from other adopters; mandatory disclosure regulations represent an understudied channel for this type of social learning. We study an environmentally-focused law in the shale gas industry to examine firms' claims that disclosure...
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A Note on Detecting Learning by Exporting
De Loecker, Jan - 2010
Learning by exporting refers to the mechanism whereby firms improve their performance (productivity) after entering export markets. Although this mechanism is often mentioned in policy documents, a significant share of econometric studies has not found evidence for this hypothesis. This paper...
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Learning by Doing in a Multi-Product Manufacturing Environment : Product Variety, Customizations, and Overlapping Product Generations
Egelman, Carolyn D. - 2013
Extending research on organizational learning to multi-product environments is of particular importance given that the vast majority of products are manufactured in such environments. We investigate learning in a multi-product facility drawing on exceptionally rich data for a manufacturing firm...
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Opportunity Counts : Teams and the Effectiveness of Production Incentives
Boning, Brent - 2001
This paper investigates the individual and joint effects of group incentive pay and problem-solving teams on productivity. To estimate models of adoption of these work practices and models of the effects of the work practices on productivity, we constructed a data set on the operations of 34...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012470418
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Productivity and Firm Turnover in Israeli Industry : 1979-1988
Griliches, Zvi - 1992
An analysis of a large panel data set on Israeli industrial firms finds that most of the growth in aggregate productivity comes from productivity changes within firms rather than from entry, exit, or differential growth; that firms which will exit in the future have lower productivity...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012474920
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Production and Learning in Teams
Herkenhoff, Kyle - 2018
The effect of coworkers on the learning and the productivity of an individual is measured combining theory and data. The theory is a frictional equilibrium model of the labor market in which production and the accumulation of human capital of an individual are allowed to depend on the human...
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Founding Teams and Startup Performance
Choi, Joonkyu; Goldschlag, Nathan; Haltiwanger, John C.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
created at firm formation and is inalienable from the founding team itself. To test this hypothesis, we exploit premature … deaths to identify the causal impact of losing a founding team member on startup performance. We find that the exogenous … separation of a founding team member due to premature death has a persistently large, negative, and statistically significant …
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Dancing with the Stars : Innovation Through Interactions
Akcigit, Ufuk - 2018
An inventor's own knowledge is a key input in the innovation process. This knowledge can be built by interacting with and learning from others. This paper uses a new large-scale panel dataset on European inventors matched to their employers and patents. We document key empirical facts on...
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Team Formation and Performance : Evidence from Healthcare Referral Networks
Agha, Leila - 2018
How does team structure affect productivity? We address this question with an application to healthcare by examining …
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