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Incremental Reform and Distortions in China’s Product and Factor Markets

Zhang, Xiaobo; Tan, Kong-Yam - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

The purpose of economic reform is to reduce distortions and enhance efficiency. However, when reforms are partial and incremental, individuals and local governments are often able to capture the rent inherent in the gradual transition process. Young (2000) warned that such rent-seeking behavior...

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Why anthropocentric organization models don't succeed in Portugal? A cultural perspective using Hofstede's cultural dimensions

Ferreira, Pedro - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

In Europe, anthropocentric organization models – an updated version of the sociotechnique approach – had their maximum expression in the Swedish model, which came to be known as “uddevalism” or “volvoism”. Several factors were presented as conditioners of this success [1], and some...

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Crescimento da produtividade e organização do trabalho: discussão de alguns factores

Moniz, António - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2002

organization, technology, infrastructures, product design). On the other hand, the capacity of innovation can be perceived by the … great number of which is market by a weak potential of adaptability, innovation and sustainability. It becomes urgent to …

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Organização do trabalho e controlo de qualidade numa estação de soldadura robotizada

Moniz, António - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1993

In this paper is analyzed the work organization and the forms of quality control in a robotic welding station in a company of office equipment and metal components manufacturing. The robotic cell is recent and works in two shifts. Quality and production rationalization implied in this firms the...

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Innovation,Flexibility, Change-Premises of Organizational Development

Todorut, Amalia Venera - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

The features of innovation, flexibility and change mutually influence one another. Provided that change is perceived as … a feature leading to innovation, flexibility is the feature that enables it. Innovation cannot exist without change but … nonetheless each and every change leads to innovation. Flexibility is a necessary condition but not sufficient for the innovation …

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Management in the Function of Enlargement of the Issuing Profit

Matić, Branko - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005

The author starts from the thesis that it is especially necessary to manage the production of cash money, taking into consideration and applying the conceptions of modern management. Cash money (metallic and paper) is a specific “product” that is produced according to the needs of monetary...

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KIBS Innovation Management Capability in Rural Portuguese Regions: Empirical Evidence

Fernandes, Cristina; Ferreira, João; Marques, Carla - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

This article aims to evaluate the innovation management capacities of knowledge intensive business services (KIBS) and … KIBS, we applied a questionnaire with results revealing different explanatory variables for KIBS innovation capacities … KIBS innovation capacities. …

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Technischer Fortschritt in der Schweiz: Empirische Ergebnisse aus industrieökonomischer Sicht

Harabi, Najib - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1994

Technischer Fortschritt ist eine der wichtigsten Triebkräfte der wirtschaftlichen Entwicklung von Unternehmen, Wirtschaftszweigen und Volkswirtschaften. Die Auseinandersetzung mit der Natur, Determinanten und Konsequenzen dieses Phänomens steht seit einiger Zeit im Zentrum der theoretischen...

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Source of Cost Reduction in Solar Photovoltaics

Pillai, Unni; Cruz, Kyle - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

The price of solar panels has fallen rapidly over the last few decades. Using an extensive dataset of prices, costs, output, sales and technical characteristics of firms in the solar industry during 2005-2011, this paper investigates the factors that have contributed to the decline in costs and...

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Trade liberalization and inter-industry productivity spillovers: an analysis of the 1989-1998 Brazilian trade liberalization episode

Paz, Lourenco - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

The desire to increase manufacturing productivity has been a commonly cited goal of the trade liberalization episodes that have swept several developing countries since the 1980s. The literature has found evidence supporting such an increase in productivity. However, this paper finds that the...

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