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China Apparel in Textiles World Values Chains

Ruffier, Jean - HAL - 2012

This paper analyses the expansion of China's clothing industry in world textile value chains. Using data from … interviews and observations throughout factory visits in China and other countries we show how private Guangdong entrepreneurs … started China's clothing manufacturing. Lacking experience in consumer markets and designing, original equipment manufacturing …

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Improving "National Brands": Reputation for Quality and Export Promotion Strategies

Cagé, Julia; Rouzet, Dorothée - HAL - 2013

Why do "made in"labels matter? We study the effect of firm and country reputation on exports when buyers cannot observe quality prior to purchase. Firm-level demand is determined by expected quality, which depends on both past experience with the good and the country of origin's reputation for...

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Are Technoparks High Tech Fantasies? Lessons from the Tunisian Experience

Youssef, Adel Ben; Elaheebocus, Nawsheen; M'Henni, Hatem; … - HAL - 2012

The objective of this article1 is to contribute to the debate on the effectiveness of Technoparks (TP) in developing and emerging economies using the example of Tunisia. This article is based on a thorough desk review and informal interviews with TP entrepreneurs and managers in Tunisia. Setting...

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Formalization of ethics : the issue of standardization

Arnal, Juliette - HAL - 2005

Beyond the presupposed cleavage between economics and ethics, the institutional dimension of economic ethics is to the emphasized. The question is : how can we define collective legal rules which concern the whole society ? The other great issue of ethics formalization is then the implementation...

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The Treasury, Britain's post-war reconstruction and the industrial intervention of the Bank of England, 1921-1929

Cerretano, Valerio - HAL - 2007

This article describes how the Trade Facilities Act (TFA) and the liquidation of certain government-owned assets spurred the industrial intervention of the Bank of England in the 1920s. What emerges is a much greater role of the Treasury in the Bank of England's industrial intervention than has...

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Has the European ICT sector a chance to be competitive ?

Genthon, Christian; Nguyen, Godefroy Dang - HAL - 2005

between the cost advantages of Asian countries such as China, and the inventiveness and dynamism of the US industry. The way …

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The New Economy in Germany and the United States: Policy Challenges and Solutions.

Audretsch, David; Bank, Matthias; Carree, Martin; … - HAL - 2002

) globalization, (2) the shift to knowledge and ideas as the source of competitive advantage, (3) the increased importance of regional …

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Subsidy competition in integrating economies

Albornoz, Facundo; Corcos, Grégory - HAL - 2005

Regional integration affects location decisions of MNCs and therefore influences each member country's provision of investment incentives, which in turn may trigger relocation. As a consequence, subsidy competition increases as integration proceeds. We analyze the welfare consequences of this...

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The new challenges of organizing intellectual property in complex industries:

Ayerbe, Cécile; Lazaric, Nathalie; Callois, Michel; … - HAL - 2014

The defence industries in France and elsewhere have, in recent years, undergone important technological, organizational and institutional changes that have profoundly altered their architectures. These changes have introduced a new division of labour bringing new opportunities for interaction...

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Économie des biens immatériels

Fournier, Laurent - HAL - 2012

We introduce a new economic system suited for Intangible Goods (ig). We argue that such system can now be implemented in the real world using advance technics in distributed network computing and cryptography. The specification of the so called cupnet is presented. To Limit the number of...

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