the organization of U.S. manufacturing firms that are helping to determine the pace of economic growth and the creation of …This study assesses the widely-held belief that manufacturing industries are uniquely important to the process of … national economic growth. The study’s related purpose is to describe structural changes in the U.S. manufacturing sector and …

This paper analyses the relationship between firm productivity and export behavior in German manufacturing firms. We … productivity to entering foreign markets, as postulated by the recent literature on international trade with heterogeneous firms …. Moreover, we apply a matching technique in order to analyze whether the presence in international markets enabled firms to …

paper shows, first, that social capital has an economic return for informal firms but not for formal ones. Informal firms …

obligations are potentially corruptible, and markets for corruption may therefore arise that give firms the option of producing … driving firms out of official production into the underground economy, our model features the idea that the `grabbing hands …' of corrupt bureaucrats may alternatively serve as `helping hands' allowing firms to exploit profitable opportunities in …

independent of the novelty degree. Moreover, different employment effects between manufacturing and service firms regarding …