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Kumar, Deepak; Sinha, Pradip - EconWPA - 2005

Customers are the ones who make or break a firm. It has become of utmost importance for today’s organizations to understand the true value of customers.

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Growth challenges for the business services industry - international comparison and policy issues

Kox, Henk L.M. - EconWPA - 2003

This report summarises the findings of a study on the growth factors and growth prospects of the business services (BS)industry, applying an internationally comparative perspective. The report untangles factors behind the extraordinary growth of the BS industry during last decade,comparing it...

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Sources of structural growth in business services

Kox, Henk L.M. - EconWPA - 2003

This report identifies the factors behind structural growth of the business services industry, applying growth decomposition and qualitative analysis.

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The contribution of business services to aggregate productivity growth

Kox, Henk L.M. - EconWPA - 2004

In most OECD countries, the business services industry has grown much faster than the market sector as a whole. The industry in most cases, however, has displayed stagnating productivity growth, in some periods even a fall in productivity. Does this fast-growing industry with a bad productivity...

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Business services and the Baumol disease

Kox, Henk L.M. - EconWPA - 2003

The business services industry represents a large and fast-growing chunk of the Dutch economy, approaching the size of the total manufacturing industry. The industry, however, has displayed stagnating productivity growth, accompanied in some years by a fall in productivity. Do these stylised...

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Monitoring Costs and the Mode of International Investment

Lin, Chu-Chia S.; Png, Ivan P.L. - EconWPA - 2002

Our central proposition is that monitoring costs increase with physical distance, and hence, direct investments located further from the foreign investor’s home base should be more likely formed as joint ventures. Tests on a data set of Taiwanese direct investments in Mainland China provide...

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How information influences the cost of transport in a supply chain, a monte carlo simulation

Brusset, Xavier - EconWPA - 2005

The present paper studies the impact of information sharing and contractual instruments on a shipper and her transport suppliers through a monte carlo simulation. After reviewing the literature, we propose a model to measure the benefits in terms of expected transport cost and variance of this...

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Monitoring Costs and the Mode of International Investment

Lin, Chu-Chia S.; Png, Ivan - EconWPA - 2002

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Why Funds of Funds?

Lai, Richard Kum-yew - EconWPA - 2005

Private equity funds of funds (FOFs) have become big business. Today, FOFs form 14% of new money raised. I test six explanations for the rise of FOFs. First, I find that FOFs do not generally deliver superior returns. They do, however, do well enough for the limited partners (LPs) that hire...

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IS OUTSOURCING REALLY AS BAD AS IT IS MADE TO SOUND? A RE- ASSESSMENT AND SOME PERSPECTIVE

Rishi, Meenakshi; Saxena, Sweta C. - EconWPA - 2005

The debate on outsourcing of skilled jobs to India has recently picked up steam and has become a hot election …-year issue. Bills put forth in almost twenty five states have provisions that seek to limit the outsourcing trend. This paper … visits some issues concerning outsourcing in order to provide nuance to some of the rhetoric. In particular, we discuss the …

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