This paper is devoted to the study of dual budgeting positions ordering costs and revenues for functional activities, the implementation of the entrepreneurial potential of project budgets and through the conclusion of potentially important areas of the company to a new level by providing...

The paper presents an agent-based simulation model of the defence industry. The model resembles some of the key characteristics of the European defence sector, and studies how firms in this market will respond to the challenges and opportunities provided by a higher degree of openness and...

The paper carries out an empirical analysis of the factors explaining the export performance of firms in the defence sector. We focus on the case of Norway, and make use of two complementary methodologies: the first is based on quantitative firm-level data analysis for the whole population of...

The paper presents the results of a new survey on the international activities of Norwegian enterprises in the service industries. The survey focuses on three main internationalization channels: international sales, international cooperation and R&D outsourcing. The empirical analysis studies...

The paper investigates the effects of industry-level competition on firm-level innovation and productivity. We propose a refined version of the CDM model that analyses the impacts of competition on four interrelated stages of the innovation process: the choice of a firm to engage in innovation,...

Missing data represent an important limitation for cross-country analyses of national systems, growth and development. This paper presents a new cross-country panel dataset with no missing value. We make use of a new method of multiple imputation that has recently been developed by Honaker and...

The paper investigates the trade-off between innovation and defence industrial policy. It presents an agent-based simulation model calibrated for the Norwegian defence industry that compares different policy scenarios and examines the effects of a pending EU market liberalization process. The...

This article analyzes the garment industry as an important sector of the Russian economy. An analysis of the conclusions that the number of employees in the industry is steadily declining for three decades, light industry in Russia and in countries with similar climatic conditions have a strong...

This article analyzes the approaches to the definition of the competitive advantages of business. Based on a review of the resource, technological, institutional, organizational and technological approaches, the expediency of the organizational and technological approach to solving the problem...

This paper discusses the economic category of "competitive advantages" in relation to business structures in market conditions. Analyzes a number of features that characterize the steady state of the economic entity in the process of competitive relations: relativity, dynamics, var-iability,...