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Information Technology and India’s Economic Development
Singh, Nirvikar - EconWPA - 2004
This paper discusses the possibilities for broad-based IT-led economic growth in India, including increasing value-added, using better telecom links to capture more benefits domestically through offshore development for developed country firms, greater spillovers to the local economy, broadening...
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Job-Hopping in Silicon Valley: Some Evidence Concerning the Micro-Foundations of a High Technology Cluster
Fallick, Bruce; Fleischman, Charles A.; Rebitzer, James B. - EconWPA - 2005
Observers of Silicon Valley’s computer cluster report that employees move rapidly between competing firms, but evidence … supporting this claim is scarce. Job-hopping is important in computer clusters because it facilitates the reallocation of talent …-hopping for college-educated men in Silicon Valley’s computer industry than in computer clusters located out of the state …
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Open Source vs Closed Source Software: Public Policies in the Software Market
Comino, Stefano; Manenti, Fabio M. - EconWPA - 2003
This paper analyses the impact of public policies supporting open source software (OSS). Users can be divided between those who know about the existence of OSS, the "informed" adopters, and the "uninformed" ones; the presence of uniformed users yields to market failures that justify government...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005561424
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Automation and Management Accounting in British Manufacturing and Retail Financial Services, 1945-1968
Batiz-Lazo, Bernardo; Boyns, Trevor - EconWPA - 2003
in major building societies during the dawn of the computer era. Reference to similar developments in clearing banks …, industrial and computer organisations provides evidence as to the common experience in the computerisation of firms in the post … computer-related innovations in financial services sought to satisfy financial, rather than management accounting, purposes. …
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Product Variety under Brand Influence: An Empirical Investigation of Personal Computer Demand
HUI, Kai-Lung - EconWPA - 2002
Prior research suggests that brand may influence consumer preference for differentiated products. However, the extant literature does not measure how brand value affects product similarity and consumer choice. This paper examines demand response to the proliferation of personal computers (PCs)....
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The public and private spheres of knowledge within the field of space communications
HASSAN, emmanuel - EconWPA - 2002
The purpose of this paper is to examine the modalities of the organization of R&D activities between the main institutional sectors (higher-education, government, industry) within the field of space communications in the Triad countries. The analysis of these modalities is complex since the...
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Advertising in the US Personal Computer Industry
Goeree, Michelle Sovinsky - EconWPA - 2005
questionable, especially when applied to markets characterized by a high degree of change, such as the personal computer (PC …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005134551
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Information Technology as an Engine of Broad-Based Growth in India
Singh, Nirvikar - EconWPA - 2004
In this paper, we survey some of the developments in India’s IT sector, and prospects for broad-based growth led by this sector. We examine the IT sector, discussing the role of software versus hardware, the growth pattern of the software industry and software exports, and the potential...
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Investment, Private Information and Social Learning: A Case Study of the Semiconductor Industry
Cunningham, Rose - EconWPA - 2004
Social learning models of investment provide an interesting alternative explanation for sudden changes in investment behaviour. Caplin and Leahy (1994) develop a model of social learning in which agents learn about the true state of demand from the investment suspension decisions of other...
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Heroic Plants: Persistently Rapid Job Creators in the Longitudinal Research Database - Their Distinguishing Characteristics and Contribution to Employment Growth
Musick, Nathan - EconWPA - 1998
Heroic Plant research shows that persistently-rapid job creation by a select group of plants can be an important source of overall employment growth in manufacturing. Establishments in SICs 34 - 38 whose residual growth (after controlling for differences in plant age, size, industry, etc.) ranks...
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