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process innovations, this paper reports new results on the relationship between innovation and employment growth in Germany … CIS data. It establishes a theoretical link between employment growth and innovation output. The econometric analysis …
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The concept of modularity has gained recently a growing attention in the management literature as a key to explain the …
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The paper analyzes voluntary Free Software/Open Source Software (FS/OSS) organization of work. The empirical setting considered is the Debian GNU/Linux operating system. The paper finds that the production process is hierarchical notwithstanding the modular (nearly decomposable) architecture of...
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This paper shows how fixed costs can play an important role in determining the structure of organizations. Applications considered include layoffs, downsizing, heterogeneity among firms, and the structure of hierarchies. Agency problems as a source of fixed costs are also considered.
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services. Imports of goods must more or less be balanced by the export of domestically produced goods. How can a widespread …
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services make to productivity improvements and living standards. Services account for more than three-quarters of national …
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altogether different phenomena such as on-line purchase of services, direct foreign investment and, sometimes, all imports. We … argue that clarity requires distinguishing among these various phenomena and define outsourcing explicitly as the services … trade at arm's length that does not require geographical proximity of the buyer and the seller—the so-called Mode 1 services …
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Uma breve apresentação do GATS (Acordo de Comércio sobre Comércio de Serviços) da Organização Mundial de Comércio, que ilustra quais os principais parâmetros do seu âmbito, bem como, qual o modelo de negociação das sucessivas 'rondas' negociais.
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. We conclude that the last decade trade in services has increased substantially, in particular in business services. This … is also the case for foreign direct investment (in services). The level of regulation within the EU has decreased …
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