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This paper investigates the drivers of the environmental innovations (EI) introduced by firms in local production … innovations. The role of agglomeration economies is less clear and seems to depend on the EI propensity of more locally oriented …
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The main idea behind this paper is that social capital is not, as generally suggested by the socio-economic literature, an individual attitude towards something which does not imply privately appropriable economic benefits. Actually, SC might and should be interpreted as a public component of an...
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indicators such as employment, turnover, and labour productivity growth. We exploit a unique dataset of 773 Italian service firms … employment, turnover, and labour productivity from the System of the Enterprise Account (SEA). We specify a Gibrat-like empirical … and turnover and a consequent not significant effect on labour productivity growth. The effect on employment is partly in …
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and economic productivity, turning it from an usual trade off to a possible joint complementary/co-dynamics, where bad …
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Aim of this paper is to study whether and how the firm’s decision to outsource production activities affects its technological performance. In particular, we look at how the alignment between the firm’s governance strategy and the underlying attributes of the transactions affects the...
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We study the driving forces behind the adoption of environmental innovations (EI) in the Italian industry over 2006 … innovation adoptions. We investigate whether the first phase of EU ETS has exerted some effects on environmental innovations by …
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